Of constructive politics, pork-barrel politics, compliant politics and more

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‘Constructive politics’ has been bandied about since Low Thia Khiang ‘cynically’ said that this rhetorical hokum doesn’t happen ‘by order of the Government’. But most of the ‘constructive politics’ supporters in Parliament seem intent on providing their own whimsy definitions rather than citing concrete examples of its existence. Positive adjectives to describe a party’s political style like ‘constructive’ are rare, perhaps because it’s redundant. After all, we pay good money for our million dollar ministers, and it’s a given that they better bloody hell deliver the goods. Constructively. It’s like saying your kid studies in a ‘good’ school, something which our Minister of Education would say applies to EVERY damn school anyway.

Here’s a sampling of other ‘brands’ of politics that have been used to describe our PAP and Opposition parties, proof that there are more bad things to say about politics in general than sincere compliments.

http://everythingalsocomplain.com/2...angs-breathtakingly-cynical-view-on-politics/

 

[bic_cherry]

Constructive politics Stink@poor style: in practise, looks like the operatives of a criminal syndicate to me...

1) Change goal posts to fix the opposition:

fixing opposition parties; actually just creating an authoritarian, monolithic political state, with little or no political vibrancy/choice...

(YouTube; LHL: "fix the opposition")

2) Fill up parliament with overpriced puppet MPs:

'Without some assurance of a good chance of winning at least their first election, many able and successful young Singaporeans may not risk their careers to join politics,' Mr Goh Chok Tong, June 2006 ['GRCs make it easier to find top talent: SM'].

[Pict= [URL="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2012/04/disassembling-grc-benefits-pap-1/"]Disassembling GRC system benefits PAP (Part 1 of 3)[/URL]]

3) Run roughshod over any opposition and
a) say whatever nonsense U want to explain getting your hand stuck in cookie jar more often than once...

"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals. Hence, a reasonable payout will help to maintain a bit of dignity."

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b) Bending the law for partisan gain, its good to have an Attorney General who is always ready to lend a hand:...

(Pict source)