Article talks about GRC, uneven playing field, and PAP's habits where losing incumbent candidates retire. Remember George Yeo?
GRC and unfair playing field accelerate PAP’s downfall
http://newasiarepublic.com/?p=40019
"There is one thing peculiar about the PAP – its losing incumbent candidates tend to call it quits after their defeats. Ng Pock Too, the former Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Defence and Foreign Affairs left politics after he was defeated by Singapore Democratic Party’s (SDP) Cheo Chai Chen. Dr Seet Ai Mee, a former acting minister for community development also quit politics after losing to SDP’s Ling How Doong. A more recent illustrious example is George Yeo and Lim Hwee Hwa. Yeo was formerly a Minister for Foreign Affairs while Lim was a minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Finance and Transport respectively."
"Let’s examine closely the age profile of losing PAP incumbents. Ng was aged 47 when he lost, Seet, 48, Yeo, 56 and Lim, 52. In their late 40s and 50s, they were definitely not in the twilight of their political careers and surely have a long way ahead of them. Like chess, if they had stuck out and not quitted politics altogether, they would have come back as better candidates, as the chess master in Revolver 2005 said, one gets better if he plays a better opponent. In fact, the learning curve is steepest for the PAP Aljunied GRC team who faced a very strong “A” team as compared with the rest of their party colleagues. Thus, if we imagine the last General Elections as a chess tournament, Yeo and Lim together with their GRC team-mates faced a grandmaster whereas the other PAP candidates either played novices or their opponents were handicapped."
GRC and unfair playing field accelerate PAP’s downfall
http://newasiarepublic.com/?p=40019
"There is one thing peculiar about the PAP – its losing incumbent candidates tend to call it quits after their defeats. Ng Pock Too, the former Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Defence and Foreign Affairs left politics after he was defeated by Singapore Democratic Party’s (SDP) Cheo Chai Chen. Dr Seet Ai Mee, a former acting minister for community development also quit politics after losing to SDP’s Ling How Doong. A more recent illustrious example is George Yeo and Lim Hwee Hwa. Yeo was formerly a Minister for Foreign Affairs while Lim was a minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Finance and Transport respectively."
"Let’s examine closely the age profile of losing PAP incumbents. Ng was aged 47 when he lost, Seet, 48, Yeo, 56 and Lim, 52. In their late 40s and 50s, they were definitely not in the twilight of their political careers and surely have a long way ahead of them. Like chess, if they had stuck out and not quitted politics altogether, they would have come back as better candidates, as the chess master in Revolver 2005 said, one gets better if he plays a better opponent. In fact, the learning curve is steepest for the PAP Aljunied GRC team who faced a very strong “A” team as compared with the rest of their party colleagues. Thus, if we imagine the last General Elections as a chess tournament, Yeo and Lim together with their GRC team-mates faced a grandmaster whereas the other PAP candidates either played novices or their opponents were handicapped."
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