No one from PAP nor its associates are better in my mind.
Tan Kin Kian worked 30 years for NTUC which is run by the PAP and you find him acceptable. No wonder the PAP can rule non stop for 49 years when we got blur sotong like you who don't even know the NTUC relationship with PAP.
Every NTUC Secretary General must be a PAP MP and after Devan Nair , they must be a Minister before taking on as head of NTUC. You think union members vote the Sec Gen?
I write such a long story and you still have no clue.
In case you are not aware, your present president started life in the NTUC before being transferred out.
Listen, TKL is just a CEO of NTUC Income Insurance, not NTUC Corp.
Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies is also a NTUC related organisation.
CASE is a related NTUC organisation.
Anyway, let me show you a chart to show you where NTUC Income in the heirachy of NTUC Corp.
NTUC FAMILY
The NTUC is a national federation of trade unions of workers in the industrial, service and public sectors. As of 2008, it has 62 trade unions and 7 associations affiliated to it.
The NTUC Family includes
9 co-operatives, and 6 affiliated organizations - the
Singapore Labour Foundation,
NTUC Club,
NTUC Link, the
Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies,
NTUC LearningHub, and the
Consumers' Association of Singapore, and the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i).
There are three tiers of union leadership, all elected by secret ballot. Workers in a company elect their branch leaders. The next layer is the executive committee of a union. Officials from the executive committee are drawn from the branches. At the national level, there is the Central Committee of the NTUC. The 21-member Central Committee is elected every four years.
The NTUC has an Administration and Research Unit (ARU) to carry out day-to-day work. Within the ARU, the Secretary-General functions as the Director-General.
If the above info still eludes you, maybe let's put two bullet points out below to get you clue-in and not continue with your misplaced assumption that everyone from NTUC has the blessings from the circle to join politics or will be hand-picked. To assume that is rather naive of you.
1. TKL is no longer in NTUC Income. He is a consultant on his own now.
For those who know, TKL left NTUC Income under very constraint situation which I shall not dwell upon here. So, rest assured of his frame of reference when and if he enters politics.
2. TKL rose from the ranks in NTUC as an agent to CEO. He spent all his life there and yet he still had to leave due to reasons I shall not dwell upon here. Tan Suee Chieh, who replaced TKL, was the MD and CEO of Prudential Assurance from 1981 till 2001 and joined NTUC Income in 2006. Are you telling me that Tan Suee Chieh is also prepared for politics or will be hand-picked to join the ranks of Prata or similar positions?
Such broad-brush stroke of yours to come to your own conclusion of suspected affiliations, allegiance and cronism, I think, is rather absurd.
I respect that you do have some insider info due to your past circle of influence but frankly, I feel your hatred and vindictiveness of anyone or anything obliquely related or linked with the Lee regime is fair game for you....but let you know this, this same anger or disdain has made you conclude that TKL is not the right candidate for an alternative voice because you suspect he is of "entirely your own definition" of tainted blood. Well, you need to justify your stance more rigorously than this if you are going to convince others to agree with you on your subtle character assassination of TKL.
Come on, bro....do more than just character assassination by association please. A=B=C does not mean A=C or C=B or C=A or B=A or C=B=A.
Agree?
