A Shakespearean tragedy coming to Parliament?


Full of drama: The people being allowed to draw from the EPF and an automatic extension of the loan moratorium during the Covid-19 pandemic have been central to the budget quagmire.

There is a risk that the Budget 2021 bill can be defeated – in politics as in fiction, anything can happen.

“ET tu, Brute? (And you, too, Brutus?), ” Julius Caesar uttered as his close friend Marcus Brutus stabbed him in William Shakespeare’s fictional account of the murder of the Roman dictator, The tragedy of Julius Caesar.

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