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24-07-2013, 09:50 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
PM Lee has spoken recently on the importance of having the “right politics” in Singapore, but in this week’s exchanges his party has revealed the usually unspoken but well recognised truth about politics in Singapore – that the PAP obsesses over the destruction of political opponents, obsesses over defamation suits in lieu of the court of public opinion and that the fear of a reversal in 2016 is forcing the ruling party into taking increasingly desperate measures to protect their power. We have seen this in recent attempts to crack down on critical voices online, and we see it in the ongoing political mudslinging over barely relevent issues that are clearly a desperate attempt to discredit the political opposition.
If PM Lee is as confident in his own rhetoric about good politics as he claims to be, perhaps he should step out of the comfort of his GRC and come to Hougang or some other SMC in 2016 and give the nation a lesson in good governance. If on the other hand he is more concerned with remaining in power for his own benefit rather than the good of the nation, one can expect much mud to be slung, many critics to be silenced and many cabinet ministers to contest GRCs in 2016. Time and the court of public opinion will indeed tell.
- http://andyxianwong.wordpress.com/20...tional-agenda/ (http://andyxianwong.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/integrity-fear-lee-cabinet-prioritise-fixing-over-national-agenda/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?157935-Should-PM-Lee-contest-in-SMC-to-show-right-politics-and-shut-up-his-opponents&goto=newpost).
PM Lee has spoken recently on the importance of having the “right politics” in Singapore, but in this week’s exchanges his party has revealed the usually unspoken but well recognised truth about politics in Singapore – that the PAP obsesses over the destruction of political opponents, obsesses over defamation suits in lieu of the court of public opinion and that the fear of a reversal in 2016 is forcing the ruling party into taking increasingly desperate measures to protect their power. We have seen this in recent attempts to crack down on critical voices online, and we see it in the ongoing political mudslinging over barely relevent issues that are clearly a desperate attempt to discredit the political opposition.
If PM Lee is as confident in his own rhetoric about good politics as he claims to be, perhaps he should step out of the comfort of his GRC and come to Hougang or some other SMC in 2016 and give the nation a lesson in good governance. If on the other hand he is more concerned with remaining in power for his own benefit rather than the good of the nation, one can expect much mud to be slung, many critics to be silenced and many cabinet ministers to contest GRCs in 2016. Time and the court of public opinion will indeed tell.
- http://andyxianwong.wordpress.com/20...tional-agenda/ (http://andyxianwong.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/integrity-fear-lee-cabinet-prioritise-fixing-over-national-agenda/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?157935-Should-PM-Lee-contest-in-SMC-to-show-right-politics-and-shut-up-his-opponents&goto=newpost).