Difference is that fatty Sitoh doesn't have to reach into his own pocket to provide the food. It comes from the pockets of his grassroots organizations aka porlumpars and fellow volunteer sycophants. The PAP has it easy.
Difference is that fatty Sitoh doesn't have to reach into his own pocket to provide the food. It comes from the pockets of his grassroots organizations aka porlumpars and fellow volunteer sycophants. The PAP has it easy.
In Singapore, the government is the political party and the political party is the government. This is not UK or US, where ministers and Ministery secretaries can come from the ruling and opposing parties. In Singapore, the ministers come exclusively from the ruling party.
Hence, it is common for the plebians to associate government handouts as vote-buying by the political party.
If one packet of nasi lemak is enough to buy votes for the SDP, the pappies would have been long gone. It is just a token gesture by the SDP to show the recipients that the party is still alive and ready to kick pappies' butts in coming GE.
If vote-buying laws were seriously acted on, everything that exists politically in Singapore will go behind bars and we will be a government-free anarchist country.
In Singapore, the government is the political party and the political party is the government. This is not UK or US, where ministers and Ministery secretaries can come from the ruling and opposing parties. In Singapore, the ministers come exclusively from the ruling party.
i won't consider cheap food a bribe nor buying favors. nasi lemak and nasi padang are so cheap in sg. anybody who's not handicapped, mentally retarded or incapacitated can afford it. i had this in jurong for only s$2.50.