Re: PAP’s handling of Palmer affair put WP’s handling of Yaw affair to shame
There are 2 different things. If Michael Palmer resigns as speaker, he still keeps his seat. If he resigns from the PAP, only then will a by-election be called. When YSL was sacked from the WP, it was not for the extra-marital affair, but his failure to explain himself, although I'd like to see what happens when the PAP decides to let him keep his seat. When there was a Hougang by-election, most of us expected WP to keep their seat. It is not so certain for Punggol East. The virtually identical results for Hougang in the GE and the BE indicate that the outcome would be quite similar to the GE: people don't really give a shit about their house members sleeping around.