The British built just enough to take care of themselves and their servants. The rest of Singapore lived in dirt and squalor.
LKY changed all that. He turned swampland into a sparkling first world metropolis. I will be forever grateful to LKY and his family for putting Singaporeans first and foremost.
Swampland my foot! Watch this video and be enlightened. By the way, I am somewhat tinkled that a young punk like me who wasn't even born when independence was achieved can be making fun of and contradicting an ah pek like yourself using an ancient film.
Dirt and squalor? It's relative. The Chinks and Nehs emigrated en masse to Little Red Dot because it was far worse where they came from not to mention absolute lack of human rights.
British left the infrastructure (roads, air bases, ports, etc) and huge reserves. Some SITU flats were also left, would have been much more if like in Hong Kong, they had stayed longer. CPF was also initiated by them. PAP just continued the good work that SITU had been doing by using the reserves the British had left behind. You have been eternally grateful to the wrong people you twit!
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