Can we not credit any activity or greetings to the PAP MP or cadre?

[Confuseous]

•The on-going annoyance over the People’s Association who claims to be apolitical, yet is obvious to most that it promotesPAPcandidates and MPs. The response: the PA is to promote government policies, and hence a member of the government has to be in charge. Definition of government is not given. This response will not satisfy.

What the public is complaining about is the exclusion of their elected opposition MPs from being actively involved in the PA. The PA disburses funds for many activities that benefit the local community. Yet the sugar daddy’s name on every banner is always the PAP MP/candidate in his capacity as the Advisor. The PM himself is already the supreme advisor of this association. Do we need a PAP cadre in every constituency?

The PM used the example of the MOE, where the Minister of Education is in the lead, while the work team comprises civil servants. If this model is to be held true, then why can’t we have the government, led by the PM himself being in the management board, with civil servants running the show at the grassroots level? Why can’t the local MP, whether from the ruling party or not, apply to PA for funds or grounds for neutral activities that will benefit the entire community? Can we also not credit any activity or greetings to the PAP MP or cadre?

- http://speakspokewritewrote.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/appropriate-responses-sil-vous-plait/

 

[HTOLAS]

The National Stadium was a good idea. So was the National Theatre. The red-bricked National Library was also great.