Lee Li Lian quits her job to be a full-time MP

[BuiKia]

SINGAPORE - Punggol East MP Lee Li Lian has become the third Workers' Party MP after Chen Show Mao and Sylvia Lim to quit their jobs to work as full-time MPs.

She confirmed that she has resigned from her job as a financial trainer. PAP MPs Tin Pei Ling, Foo Mee Har and Baey Yam Keng are also full-time MPs.

 

[Fishypie]

Hi my Chubby Lian..

 

[blackmondy]

If she sheds off 10kgs or so she'll be a great looker.

 

[kongsimi]

Financial trainers where got earn so much as an MP?

Not to mention the pride and joy of serving the constituent?

How come she take so long to decide?

 

[scroobal]

I sometime worry if these decisions are made for the short term. An opposition MP does not have a fall back position like PAP MPs who have a guaranteed safety net if they are no longer MPs. She should continue to carve out a career at least on a part-time basis for security.

Do not be fooled by the 3 PAP who are suddenly on Mother Theresa garb being full time MPs. They a given assuarances and will always have a meal ticket. They also need to assure the public that they are not sitting on 92 companies, associations, clans, entities as directors, advisors and drawing some kind of remuneration.

 

[Sinkie]

Great Eastern Life has lost a trainer.

Like so many other MPs, instead of championing causes which she's familiar with, for example, why Medisave enhanced is not doing the job it is intended to, she go and champion old age issues, which she is not qualified to talk about.

 

[singveld]

opposition mp are gambler in heart, i hope they can still afford a living if they lose their MP seat, a lot of jobs are offlimited to them.

 

[winnipegjets]

Financial trainers where got earn so much as an MP?

Not to mention the pride and joy of serving the constituent?

How come she take so long to decide?

Because your job as an MP is guaranteed only for one term, more so if you are in opposition ...then you have to apply for it again. And your competitor, the PAP politician, has the full resource of the state at his/her disposal to unseat you.

 

[winnipegjets]

Like so many other MPs, instead of championing causes which she's familiar with, for example, why Medisave enhanced is not doing the job it is intended to, she go and champion old age issues, which she is not qualified to talk about.

She knows more than you think. Qualified? We have so many elites, supposedly qualified, in government. What have they delivered? Misery to sinkees and more misery to come.

 

[Sinkie]

She knows more than you think. Qualified? We have so many elites, supposedly qualified, in government. What have they delivered? Misery to sinkees and more misery to come.

Who cares what more she knows? I'm stating a fact that MPs like her do not go to parliament to debate on issues that she is professionally equipped and trained to do....even knowing full well that Medisave and healthcare policies are screwed up, yet she hides behind old age issues, just so not to offend Great Eastern Life, which had given her employment when she was just an opposition aspirant.

 

[Leongsam]

MPs are supposed to be part of the community they represent. This includes having to earn a living like the majority of the constituents that returned the MP to Parliament in the first place.

Being a full time MP distorts the whole arrangement.

 

[t0nychat]

If she sheds off 10kgs or so she'll be a great looker.

She should turn vegan.

 

[tanwahp]

I sometime worry if these decisions are made for the short term. An opposition MP does not have a fall back position like PAP MPs who have a guaranteed safety net if they are no longer MPs. She should continue to carve out a career at least on a part-time basis for security.

I am not that worried as they can always continue their careers after they are no longer MPs.

I agree with you about the false Mother Theresas.

 

[tanwahp]

Who cares what more she knows? I'm stating a fact that MPs like her do not go to parliament to debate on issues that she is professionally equipped and trained to do....even knowing full well that Medisave and healthcare policies are screwed up, yet she hides behind old age issues, just so not to offend Great Eastern Life, which had given her employment when she was just an opposition aspirant.

Then it's good that she's resigned. Sometimes employees are asked to sign certain declaration not to reveal workplace information whatsoever. May be the reason why she didn't talk much on those issues.

 

[singham]

she looks like a bimbo, however she is still better than TPL.

but as a man, i still think women shouldn't drive...

 

[tanwahp]

MPs are supposed to be part of the community they represent. This includes having to earn a living like the majority of the constituents that returned the MP to Parliament in the first place.

Being a full time MP distorts the whole arrangement.

Not true. Most countries have MPs who are full time.

 

[cheekenpie]

Yarlor, not as if whe is lawyer or doctor. Her job is fancy title only niah. She works for her husband company right?

Financial trainers where got earn so much as an MP?

Not to mention the pride and joy of serving the constituent?

How come she take so long to decide?

 

[BuiKia]

Men in their late 40s and 50s would love a lady her shape....

 

[Leongsam]

Not true. Most countries have MPs who are full time.

It has turned out that way in many countries but it is not the way it is supposed to be in the Westminster model. The term "MP allowance" stems from this fact.

MPs have never been paid a salary because it is supposed to be a part time job. They are given an "allowance" to enable them to carry out the duties or serving their constituents.

 

[crossroads]

It has turned out that way in many countries but it is not the way it is supposed to be in the Westminster model. The term "MP allowance" stems from this fact.

MPs have never been paid a salary because it is supposed to be a part time job. They are given an "allowance" to enable them to carry out the duties or serving their constituents.

There should be no sacred cows here that shouldnt be slaughtered. An MP who serves fulltime and draws a salary could also provide better service to the people they are supposed to serve.