Tharman for new PM

[yellowarse]

I like this. Change from within. Better than a slapping co-driver!

You can only change so much from within, especially if you're alone or have only a few colleagues in your faction. PAP's core DNA as passed down by old fart and the old guard will not change.

Ultimately Singapore will need a new govt with a totally different vision and guiding philosophy, or it will implode. Either the opposition steps up to the plate, or a breakaway faction from the PAP would be needed to displace the present totalitarian, self-serving, corrupt govt.

 

[enterprise2]

You can only change so much from within, especially if you're alone or have only a few colleagues in your faction. PAP's core DNA as passed down by old fart and the old guard will not change.

Ultimately Singapore will need a new govt with a totally different vision and guiding philosophy, or it will implode. Either the opposition steps up to the plate, or a breakaway faction from the PAP would be needed to displace the present totalitarian, self-serving, corrupt govt.

Agree. But what if the change leader becomes PM? That would be interesting! Will he change or be changed??

 

[SgGoneWrong]

I like this. Change from within. Better than a slapping co-driver!

So your purpose of starting this thread is to tell us to vote pap and wait for change from within?

 

[laksaboy]

Tharman is one of Pinky's favourite yes-men. Expect the same old bullshit with him as the PM. Now with a bald head and a darker shade of skin colour.

If the system is rotten, don't expect someone from within that system to improve things.

 

[enterprise2]

So your purpose of starting this thread is to tell us to vote pap and wait for change from within?

No. Just watch PAP and see if there is change. Continue to vote Opp. Its a two pronged approach. Get more Opp in and activate change in PAP. This way, chances of success better.

 

[Sideswipe]

what the hell. absolutely no shitskin for Singapore PM. our Jah would lead an Army to protest outside PAP HQ if that happens.

 

[laksaboy]

Let's also have a female Malay DPM... that'll surely win the votes of feminists, ethnic minorities and proponents of racial affirmative action.

 

[yellowarse]

Tharman is one of Pinky's favourite yes-men. Expect the same old bullshit with him as the PM. Now with a bald head and a darker shade of skin colour.

Tharman is a closet rebel whose ideology runs counter to the grain of PAP's hardcore right-wing philosophy. (George Yeo is the other liberal; but he's got neither the guts nor wiles to lead a revolt.) He's a Jedi keeping his cards close to his chest, waiting for the right time to strike.

 

[laksaboy]

Tharman is a closet rebel whose ideology runs counter to the grain of PAP's hardcore right-wing philosophy. (George Yeo is the other liberal; but he's got neither the guts nor wiles to lead a revolt.) He's a Jedi keeping his cards close to his chest, waiting for the right time to strike.

Liberal and conservative are a false dichotomy.

There are two types of politics/politicians: those who work for the people, vs those who work for the interests of big business to screw the people.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Tharman is one of Pinky's favourite yes-men. Expect the same old bullshit with him as the PM. Now with a bald head and a darker shade of skin colour.

If the system is rotten, don't expect someone from within that system to improve things.

Tharman owes the Lee family big-time. With an OSA conviction, still managed to rise. No one else comes close.

 

[enterprise2]

Tharman owes the Lee family big-time. With an OSA conviction, still managed to rise. No one else comes close.

No lah! He got away with the 'honest mistake, let's move on..' move. In fact he prob started this move which is now standard procedure for any cock-ups!

 

[yellowarse]

Tharman owes the Lee family big-time. With an OSA conviction, still managed to rise. No one else comes close.

The OSA charge is the only thing that's holding him back from a full revolt. Old fart made sure that he had something on all his deputies and colleagues in the cabinet, so that they'd be kept on a tight leash. For those with no past history of any misdemeanours, it's a well-known fact that the Machiavellian bastard would make them commit a grey crime so as to ensure their loyalty, even long after they'd left politics.

 

[bigboss]

...The ony person that carries himself so well is our late ahkong Lee Kuan Yew....

Your Ah Kong carried himself so well partly because he kicked ass at the same time. He was a no nonsense dude, a bull dozer and would not hesitate to whack you with his hatchet.

As for the way he carried himself, his unsmiling face with the eye brows pointing skywards at the corner and small piercing eyes would be enough to scare the shits out of "the tigers and the small flies" which the Chinese President is now trying to eradicate.

As for the current PM, he is more like a school teacher. He needs to kick more ass than LKY.

 

[GoldenDragon]

The OSA charge is the only thing that's holding him back from a full revolt. Old fart made sure that he had something on all his deputies and colleagues in the cabinet, so that they'd be kept on a tight leash. For those with no past history of any misdemeanours, it's a well-known fact that the Machiavellian bastard would make them commit a grey crime so as to ensure their loyalty, even long after they'd left politics.

Cooptation is the word. Others include Philip J and Ho Kwon Ping.

 

[bigboss]

The OSA charge is the only thing that's holding him back from a full revolt. Old fart made sure that he had something on all his deputies and colleagues in the cabinet, so that they'd be kept on a tight leash. For those with no past history of any misdemeanours, it's a well-known fact that the Machiavellian bastard would make them commit a grey crime so as to ensure their loyalty, even long after they'd left politics.

So, every Minister in the pappies Cabinet is tainted, including those past and present? Your brush is certainly so huge to paint them all as
rascals, which is just difficult to believe.

It is proven from events in the history of sinkie land that certain pappies Ministers and MPs were removed by LKY for personal indiscretion and that LKY would not tolerate nonsense from his Ministers and MPs. Would he deliberately keep tainted MPs and Ministers with him?

 

[GoldenDragon]

Your Ah Kong carried himself so well partly because he kicked ass at the same time. He was a no nonsense dude, a bull dozer and would not hesitate to whack you with his hatchet.

As for the way he carried himself, his unsmiling face with the eye brows pointing skywards at the corner and small piercing eyes would be enough to scare the shits out of "the tigers and the small flies" which the Chinese President is now trying to eradicate.

As for the current PM, he is more like a school teacher. He needs to kick more ass than LKY.

Current one is a nimcompoop imo. Even daycare helpers fare better.

 

[bigboss]

Tharman is a closet rebel whose ideology runs counter to the grain of PAP's hardcore right-wing philosophy. (George Yeo is the other liberal; but he's got neither the guts nor wiles to lead a revolt.) He's a Jedi keeping his cards close to his chest, waiting for the right time to strike.

He is not really a rebel but one with the good sense to see that locals are extremely unhappy about the White Paper on Population.

He had said that the population should be kept manageable at about 3 million and not to look at expanding economic growth as the overall criteria to govern the island. A sensible guy but at that time, the old man was still alive and botak could only talk but no action.

He is good but his past conviction is just a small indiscretion, not a criminal act.

 

[bigboss]

Current one is a nimcompoop imo. Even daycare helpers fare better.

The latest news about the Chinese woman able to enter and leave sinkie land throughout 12 years by using various fake passports just shows how inefficient and useless the country is run by the current leadership.

If that woman had been a terrorist, sinkie land would have been long gone.

 

[bigboss]

Let's also have a female Malay DPM... that'll surely win the votes of feminists, ethnic minorities and proponents of racial affirmative action...

Yeah, and more Yang Yin would have the chance to become SPRs by using fake credentials.

 

[GoldenDragon]

The latest news about the Chinese woman able to enter and leave sinkie land throughout 12 years by using various fake passports just shows how inefficient and useless the country is run by the current leadership.

If that woman had been a terrorist, sinkie land would have been long gone.

In my many tcss sessions with friends and ex-colleagues, I have always taken this position - if terrorists want to enter and sabotage,
sure to succeed. It is not a difficult task.