In those days of kampong living standards put in any monkey or donkey parties to fix basic amenities will get your votes. You go to Google Earth and visit most major cities in the world they have progressed at the same rate as Singapore.
PAP GIC has become one of the gobal players in investing thier money world wide. The oppo must change and move up the higher bar and put someone with financial maths skill to look at GIC disparites and balance sheet.
Yes, the managing of town council water pipe leaks are common problems every town council faced but look at the other side of the coin where is the CPF money gone to? Yes it is diifcult to get information from the tight PAP controlled GIC but this takes time. All it takes is a small hole to sink a big ship.
If you don't make a small hole, where KJ is a small hole, you can never sink that big ship GIC.
If WP paved the way for KJ to be MP, and like in Dr. Chee deal, WP take over the Council work it will works well for the opposition team.
Next GE only 3 years away, the whole game will change again.
I would think it is a good interim strategy to make a small hole first, and sink the great ship in 2016. More PAP cans of worms will be open by KJ, the small hole, inside the big ship.
People of my father's age (he'd have been 90 if he'd lived) tell me that they did elect the PAPzis to get the basics fixed. And in the early days, the PAPzis delivered beyond expectations. The PAPzis were exceptionally good at something else - to link the nitty gritty town council business to the bigger picture of independence and other 'bigger' policies.
In the last GE, the WP began to do that - to link running a town council well with a 'world class parliament.' And while some might think otherwise, it is useful to note that WP MPs have asked more than 1000 questions in parliament since 2011. Of course, the presstapo have not featured them.
