LKY does not have political experience to start with, he was a criminal lawyer, a profession but given a head start.
People give him a chance, a head start to enter politic and people/ voters elected to chose him as leader not there to fix water pipe leaks. They want him to 作大事。
The story today does not change. To get KJ in is same as voters get LKY in. The massive CPF money has been tranferred to TH, GLC as investment loans. TH is an investment vehicle of GIC which borrowed money from the country sovereign funds.
Oppo need to rasie their bar higher to meet today's complex TH, GLC and MAS financial maths like IMF loan and etc. It is not a common Ah Long shark loan but complex GIC loan to TH and IMF and the like.
Perhaps Chee was right to write to WP about raising the bar. Why put an auntie there to be like contractor to fix water pipe leaks which can be done by town council civil servants. WP is good at fixing water pipe leaks only? Hello! get a contractor from the Causeway (300,000 crossed daily to Singapore to find work) to fix water pipe leak. Was WP voted into parliament to 作大事 or to 办小事.
On another point, voters certainly do not need an over qualified, over rated and over achiever of certain profession, like medical which is a specific trade, to be your MP. Trade people are good at certain job they choose to get in, unless this doctor offers free arse-check clinic then worth to vote him. He is likely to fall asleep or siam the debate or act blur or be 'yes' am in parliament sitting if the debate is not a medical topic.
If WP stand down in this BE, they may lose the depoist but chap si cheng $14,000 is only 1 month MP pay which WP can afford to lose.
Anyway, this kind of voting stragtegy required quality voters to think and not Ah beng abd Ah Lain type from across Causeway with Form 5 education turn S citizens to vote wisely.
Voters choice of choosing candidate will change and will raise the bar and it has had happen to WP when they introduced CSM in 2011.
1) Sound easy... KJ/financial experts will demand them to surrender afterward? Their power does not come overnight, their 60% blind supporters can explain very much...
2) Are you sure KJ has that same character and strength like his dad?
Btw, it is a must to form a new opposition to do those things?