Immortal Chong says PAP MPs from 2006 elections were 3rd and 4th rate.

[Confuseous]

US Embassy Cable on the 2006 General Election

The decline in the quality of PAP MPs, much more evident in the 2011 elections, had already been noticed then:

The new group of 24 PAP MP candidates has benefited from extensive and glowing media coverage starting well before the announcement of the election date, while opposition candidates have been given cursory attention. Despite the media hype and the fact that they still outshine the opposition, the new PAP MP candidates are a mixed lot.

PAP MP Chong admitted that the party had not succeeded in recruiting a number of “high-flying” business leaders to run. In fact, the party had to reach down to some of its second and third tier candidates to fill out its ticket. Those new candidates will all run in the Group Representative Constituencies (GRCs) helmed by higher profile ministers — for example, four of them will run in Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong’s uncontested district.

- http://rot.blogsome.com/2011/09/03/us-embassy-cable-on-the-2006-general-election/

 

[steffychun]

The US Embassy was once criticised for "interfering" with SG issues--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_%E2%80%93_United_States_relations and were scolding for it.

Now the PAP dare not do that