An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
As many of us are aware, the Nominated Member of Parliaments (NMP) are selected to provide more independent and diverse voices in the House.
They are chosen from functional groups, such as (a) business and industry; (b) labour; (c) the professions; (d) social and community service organisations; (e) tertiary educational institutions; and (f) media, the arts and the sports organisations.
The PAP is not represented as one of the functional groups, especially since there are already 80 of them.
Enter the NMP, with no constituency and no residents to represent.
In other words, he/she can deliver PAP’s hard truths without suffering from the electoral backlash.
Below are three reasons why you may have mistaken NMP Chia Yong Yong as a PAP MP:
http://mothership.sg/2015/03/nmp-chia/
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07-03-2015, 10:20 AM
Only NMP Chia and Shit Say received full telecast of their speeches
