richard branson is a threat to PAP,he is a force of nature in the music,airline,train transport industry,i remember in one of his biography,he started a budget airline or something called the virgin blue now virgin australia airlines for 30m that rapidly became so successful within 6 years that a high ranking official in SIA called him up and offered him 150m to buy over his airline,and tried to pressure him into believing its a good deal,that Sia was powerful and their partnership with a budget airline would force him out of competition.of course he never indicated any ill will towards singapore in the book.