The curious case of Tin Pei Ling
The PAP’s new candidate, Tin Pei Ling, a 27 year old woman with a penchant for seeming like less than a politician, has been making news in recent times. Online protests have come in various forms, one of which includes a petition to have her run in an SMC instead of a GRC. The idea behind this is simple. Singaporeans expect...
Teo Chee Hean and his nonsense
“By the opposition’s own admission, if you ask them, are you ready to form a government… they say, no, no, we’re not ready.” - DPM Teo Chee Hean, Straits Times, 8 April 2011. I think Mr Teo should not shoot his mouth off too fast without his brain having process some vital information first. While he ridicules the...
Not enough good people in Singapore?
The PAP view that politics is about getting skilled people to run an administration is based on a wrong presumption. Politics is a perennial debate around values, about the important things in a community: whether we look after the elderly or buy guns; whether we house people or see public housing as a means to make a profit;...
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