
Parliament is rarely a place of high satire. The insults hurled between esteemed members are usually unembellished and can become tactless in heated situations.
So, when ‘Vellfire-gate’ broke – the government’s move to replace the entire fleet of ministerial vehicles with brand new 2.5L Toyota Vellfires – it was wholly expected that the Opposition would take the government to task as they always have.
Instead, we were served up with a classy takedown by Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil, who gave this tongue-in-cheek ‘congratulations’ to his colleagues on the opposite aisle:
@fahmi.fadzilTahniah Kerajaan sebab jimat RM2.80 sebulan bila tukar kereta rasmi menteri dari Proton Perdana ke Vellfire!! 🤣🤣♬ Monkeys Spinning Monkeys – Kevin MacLeod
“It’s true, they get to save RM2.80 a month, or a reduction in costs of 0.0577%. This works out to RM33.60 a year, with 32 ministers making the…