Politics, and it seems independence struggles, do indeed make for strange bedfellows. Though they may have different ideologies, they'll work together, so long as sharing the bed serves each other's mutual benefits.

Pointing this out at a forum in Kuala Lumpur last night, a Perkasa supreme council member said the "temporary" nature of the alliance between ideologically diverse members of the Pakatan Rakyat was a spitting image of the tacked-on pro-independence nationalist- communist alliance fighting the British in pre-independence Malaya.

DAP fights for a Malaysian Malaysia, PAS for an Islamic state, while PKR is cacamerba (a mixed bag) - three parties with different ideologies working together in a marriage of convenience, said the academician Ramlah Adam.

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