You may recall that some time back the government tried to spin on their rating in the Global Competitiveness Report, claiming that we were “eighth” among nations with a population of above 20mil - a completely arbitrary categorization, conveniently excluding Singapore of course. We had actually fallen two places. (Hey Pak Lah, isn’t it even MORE OF A SHAME if we are less competitive than countries with fewer people?)

The spinmasters are back, this time working on our International Corruption Perception Index ranking. We dropped from 23 in 1995 to 44 and 43 in 2006 and 2007. But according to Mr. Nice, we are actually IMPROVING. You see, there are more countries in the index now!

Abdullah said if one analysed the index closely, Malaysia had improved on its performance in the fight against corruption.

“From our placing at 56.1% in the list of countries surveyed in 1996, we have improved to 24% last year and then 26.9% this year.

“This means that Malaysia is better than 76% of the countries last year, up from 73.1% in 2006 and 43.9% in 1995,”he said.

Among the new countries in this year’s survey are Somalia and Afghanistan. Aren’t we all SO PROUD we are better than them?

He also contradicts himself by stating in the same article that it is more accurate to use the actual index score instead:

“A more accurate indicator to show the trend of a country’s performance in the index is the country’s score.

“Malaysia’s score since 1995 has been averaging five points, which is a good and stable level,” he said in a written reply on Monday.

Bearing in mind that the index is fucking scored OUT OF TEN, I would say we need this doddling idiot out of office as soon as possible lest he infect us all with his indifference and mediocrity.

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