Only NMP Chia and Shit Say received full telecast of their speeches

[Confuseous]

As many of us are aware, the Nominated Member of Parliaments (NMP) are selected to provide more independent and diverse voices in the House.

They are chosen from functional groups, such as (a) business and industry; (b) labour; (c) the professions; (d) social and community service organisations; (e) tertiary educational institutions; and (f) media, the arts and the sports organisations.

The PAP is not represented as one of the functional groups, especially since there are already 80 of them.

Enter the NMP, with no constituency and no residents to represent.

In other words, he/she can deliver PAP’s hard truths without suffering from the electoral backlash.

Below are three reasons why you may have mistaken NMP Chia Yong Yong as a PAP MP:

http://mothership.sg/2015/03/nmp-chia/

 

[laksaboy]

What's this? Mothership doing damage control for the establishment?

You don't need to be a card-carrying PAP member to be a PAP person, you know? Remember NMP Calvin Cheng? That fine embodiment of NMP non-partisan wisdom.

 

[tanwahp]

The author forgets that the PAP permeates every channel in the state and by extension the leadership of these functional groups are infiltrated by PAP people. We have heard many NMPs resigning from PAP to become NMP. Have anyone heard of someone resigning from an opposition party to become NMP? If anyone had membership history with any opposition they would not be selected.

The NMP scheme ends up giving the PAP a few extra seats when they already have 80. The scheme is useless here and would work better in more democratic countries.

 

[xingguy]

 

[Seee3]

The pap didn't realised that it has reach such a stage whereby anything perceived to be against the people will be attributed to be their doing, regardless if it is real. (Unfortunately, for most of the times it is true). In simple term, this is stereotype.

If they still didn't see the picture and continue to engage the people with "clever twists", the opposition parties actually didn't have to do anything. Just join the GE and wait to be voted in.