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Rebutting DPM Teo's speech on the battle for merger

Confuseous

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Turning the tide

If Lee Kuan Yew had managed to turn the tide, how come all three options in the referendum forms were “Yes” options? Why were there no “No” options? Why even blank votes were counted as “Yes”?

Clearly Lee Kuan Yew didn’t have the confidence he would win the referendum so he didn’t give people the chance to say no. How can that be construed as having turned the tide?


… the PAP passed a bill … The bill postulated that … all blank votes would be counted as supporting the amalgamation. The referendum offered people choices of three alternative forms of merger, but not the choice of whether or not to go through with the merger itself.

[Hegemonies Compared: State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong, Wong Ting-Hong, page 68]


There is thus no proof that Lee’s radio talks succeeded in winning back the majority or portraying the Leftists (the word ‘communists’ is rejected because Lim Chin Siong and the Barisan weren’t communists) as losing because all three referendum options were for “Yes” and even blank votes were counted as “Yes” so we would never know what proportion of Singaporean pioneers would have voted “no” had they been allowed to do so.

No armed revolution in Singapore

Mr Teo was wrong to say that Singapore will turn 50 next year. Singapore will turn 196 next year.

It was meaningless for Mr Teo to ask....http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/rebutting-dpm-teo/
 

kingrant

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There is really no point in rehashing the whole Merger issue. LKY brought us into Merger with M'sia and then created a nuisance until we were kicked out. What lesson is there to learn from this sorry episode of bad statesmanship, bad leadership? It is something we should forget quickly and permanently, so that we can chuck away the political baggage and rebuild on our common interests with M'sia.

The PAP might as well replay the communal politics that PAP and UMNO played that caused the split.Why tout the Merger as a success when it was actually an epic fail?
 

kingrant

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These radio talks were meant to give the dog a bad label and hang it. LKY monopolised the public media and exploited it to propagate his own story and version of events. What is so proud about that? We now have TPP's alternative version of history. Why is the PAP afraid of what it shows? For 50 over years, the PAP has been hogging the bandwidths and airwaves to impose their narrative. Yet, even after half a century of their story telling, they are still afraid until they have to censor and block any alternative versions? How little confidence they have of their own credibility?
 

rodent2005

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There is really no point in rehashing the whole Merger issue. LKY brought us into Merger with M'sia and then created a nuisance until we were kicked out. What lesson is there to learn from this sorry episode of bad statesmanship, bad leadership? It is something we should forget quickly and permanently, so that we can chuck away the political baggage and rebuild on our common interests with M'sia.

The PAP might as well replay the communal politics that PAP and UMNO played that caused the split.Why tout the Merger as a success when it was actually an epic fail?

If Singapore had not merged with Malaysia and got kicked out by Malaysia, then today some people in Malaysia will be claiming that Singapore belongs to Malaysia.
 

kingrant

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Only insane people without a sense of history will say that. Singapore was part of the Straits Settlements, together with Penang and Malacca. It was never part of the federated States of Malaya.

In fact, it was because Singapore could never belong to malaysia that the Leftists clamoured for independence of Malaya with Singapore. Note that Malaya and Singapore were always mentioned as two distinct entities. Nobody during that time could get this mixed up, and I dont think anybody today and tomoro would either.

If Singapore had not merged with Malaysia and got kicked out by Malaysia, then today some people in Malaysia will be claiming that Singapore belongs to Malaysia.
 
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