Having read the transcripts of the dialogue between the MP, Dr Lam Pim Min, and the current/potential residents of Sengkang West regarding the temple/columbarium fine print issue, I am dumbfounded and shocked.
An elected doctor-MP, who is also an appointed Minister of State for Health, when he came face to face with residents could only, err… ahhh… ooh… ok here, alright there throughout the whole dialogue session without any substance.
Throughout the transcript, I cannot even fathom any convincing message or information of worth that he is trying to disseminate, except to duck here and take cover there through the waves of questions put forth. All his attempts were poorly thought out, evasive and in my opinion, downright dumb as he was not even able to put two sensible sentences together.
Didn’t he know beforehand that there are concerns to be answered and yet, he was so thick-skinned to go into the dialogue so nonchalant and unprepared? Although having a thick skin in the political arena is a requisite, it has to go hand in hand with ability, accountability, responsibility and transparency. So what gave him the audacity to make such a futile attempt? Or maybe, in his subconscious, he thinks residents of Sengkang West and Singaporeans at large are really daft and would be easily cowed by him? If that is the attitude and calibre of an MP and Minister of State for Health who helms an SMC, I am shocked beyond words.
This leads me to question the supposedly high calibre, quality candidates riding into a GRC on the coattails of more electable politicians. PAP claims they have to pay high “realistic” salaries to get top dogs to “serve” Singapore, but if an MP of an SMC, a standalone of ministerial material, is so pathetic, I dread to think what the quality of most MPs in GRCs must be like.
Or is it, I wonder, the elasticity and toughness of their neck muscles in nodding their head up and down in quick succession, a major consideration in determining their ability to don the white attire and be propelled into Parliament?
If that be the case, then we are in dire straits and ought to be screwed. Ouch!
呆傻帮主
* Submitted by TRE reader.
An elected doctor-MP, who is also an appointed Minister of State for Health, when he came face to face with residents could only, err… ahhh… ooh… ok here, alright there throughout the whole dialogue session without any substance.
Throughout the transcript, I cannot even fathom any convincing message or information of worth that he is trying to disseminate, except to duck here and take cover there through the waves of questions put forth. All his attempts were poorly thought out, evasive and in my opinion, downright dumb as he was not even able to put two sensible sentences together.
Didn’t he know beforehand that there are concerns to be answered and yet, he was so thick-skinned to go into the dialogue so nonchalant and unprepared? Although having a thick skin in the political arena is a requisite, it has to go hand in hand with ability, accountability, responsibility and transparency. So what gave him the audacity to make such a futile attempt? Or maybe, in his subconscious, he thinks residents of Sengkang West and Singaporeans at large are really daft and would be easily cowed by him? If that is the attitude and calibre of an MP and Minister of State for Health who helms an SMC, I am shocked beyond words.
This leads me to question the supposedly high calibre, quality candidates riding into a GRC on the coattails of more electable politicians. PAP claims they have to pay high “realistic” salaries to get top dogs to “serve” Singapore, but if an MP of an SMC, a standalone of ministerial material, is so pathetic, I dread to think what the quality of most MPs in GRCs must be like.
Or is it, I wonder, the elasticity and toughness of their neck muscles in nodding their head up and down in quick succession, a major consideration in determining their ability to don the white attire and be propelled into Parliament?
If that be the case, then we are in dire straits and ought to be screwed. Ouch!
呆傻帮主
* Submitted by TRE reader.
