Don't noe if it's genuine or fake. Judge for yourself.
*Lawrence Wong*: "WP has to go beyond questioning government policies now!
*Gerard Ong*
Come on Lawrence Wong, the Workers Party MPs are not school boys and girls elected into parliament. Neither are you a school prefect watching over your charges. Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim and you were elected into parliament in the same year in 2011.
But with one big difference – you came in on the coattails of two ministers in West Coast GRC, while Pritam and Sylvia had to fight their darndest with Low Thia Khiang and his team, to wrest Aljunied GRC from two cabinet ministers and one senior minister of state.
Please stop acting as though you are the grand sage of the PAP with all the years of political wisdom and worldliness coupled with lengthy experience in parliamentary and contentious debates in policy proposals and issues. Those titles are reserved for the very few in Singapore's parliamentary history.
What right do you have to admonish the WP and remind them that they cannot just continue to question and ask for changes to government policy?
As elected MPs of course they have every right to continue to ask questions of the PAP government. That is their right and job to do so. Because if they don’t then they are not true representatives of the people who voted for them.
Remember the blank cheque which Jamus Lim spoke about in the TV debate? It resonated well with many Singaporeans.
As for alternate policy proposals, that is something that the WP has been doing all along and will continue to do so despite the inaccessibility of govt data, reports and statistics.
We live in hope that the newly elected opposition MPs will receive the respect and support that they are entitled to in a parliamentary democracy.
PM Lee has said he will provide the necessary support and staff to Pritam. He also looks forward to the 10 new opposition MPs and two NCMPs participating in and contributing to parliamentary and national debates – we shall see if the PM and his cabinet will be truthful and respectful partners in this endeavour.