KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 -- Pakatan Harapan's (PH) Beluran MP Datuk Seri Ronald Kiandee today cut Datuk Bung Moktar Radin down to size after the Kinabatangan MP accused him and others of having no dignity when they recently crossed over to the ruling coalition.

Debating the King's Address today, Kiandee reminded Bung of Umno's own history where it had openly embraced party hoppers from Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) and also in Perak, which led to a state constitutional crisis in 2009.

"Actually, there is nothing dishonourable about being on this side," the former Umno MP said.

"I am of the opinion that the remark - that those of us who are here have no honour and are disgusting, as how Kinabatangan described yesterday - is a political statem...