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I love the old US Navy SEALs adage, "the only easy day was yesterday".
After all the tough talk about not getting distracted from the national agenda, the leg-crosser finally calls for a by-election, of course taking another swipe at WP and Yaw Shin Leong.
But their going will get tougher, because HG residents in my assessment have not been adversely affected by the unfortunate episode with YSL and still believe in the WP party branding and in LTK's leadership of the party even though he is no longer MP for the ward.
Nation-wide, confidence in the PAP is also eroding, with focus on foreigners and their wreckage on the social fabric/middle class job losses/suppression of salaries for low to mid income earners, etc. I believe finally, for the first time, cost of living issues and foreigners issue rank equally on the national agenda.
That means next election, two equally important issues will hog the national agenda and people will be doubly angry.
For the PAP, the only easy day was yesterday. They have no momentum, no effort, no commitment to change despite knowing they have to. They are bogged down by dogma, by self-serving elite groups that resist change, by the wrong values and mindsets towards people and politics. Things will only get progressively harder for them as they will encounter more and more opposition, resistance to their policies as time goes on.
The PAP's future will get progressively dimmer, bleaker and harder. Only an internal revolution within PAP ranks can solve the problem.
After all the tough talk about not getting distracted from the national agenda, the leg-crosser finally calls for a by-election, of course taking another swipe at WP and Yaw Shin Leong.
But their going will get tougher, because HG residents in my assessment have not been adversely affected by the unfortunate episode with YSL and still believe in the WP party branding and in LTK's leadership of the party even though he is no longer MP for the ward.
Nation-wide, confidence in the PAP is also eroding, with focus on foreigners and their wreckage on the social fabric/middle class job losses/suppression of salaries for low to mid income earners, etc. I believe finally, for the first time, cost of living issues and foreigners issue rank equally on the national agenda.
That means next election, two equally important issues will hog the national agenda and people will be doubly angry.
For the PAP, the only easy day was yesterday. They have no momentum, no effort, no commitment to change despite knowing they have to. They are bogged down by dogma, by self-serving elite groups that resist change, by the wrong values and mindsets towards people and politics. Things will only get progressively harder for them as they will encounter more and more opposition, resistance to their policies as time goes on.
The PAP's future will get progressively dimmer, bleaker and harder. Only an internal revolution within PAP ranks can solve the problem.