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A Lesson on the Need for Alternatives
http://www.ahtc.org.sg/ahtc/media-release-28-december-2012/
From the petty squabble between PAP and Vichy WP about the sale of town councils’ computer and financial systems, it is very obvious that both parties are treating the Aljnunied voters as bargaining chips in their political horse-trading.
If PAP has been screwing the system and deliberately sabotaging Vichy WP since Aug 2011, why didn’t Vichy WP slap the PAP and speak up for the Aljunied people then? Why now, after more than 1 year and after all the Aljunied people money had been successfully siphoned over to PAP?
In fact, if HDB had not criticised Vichy WP and gave them a red score on town management in the first place, Vichy WP most likely will continue to act blur and keep quiet on this issue just as they have always been sleeping and idling on every national issues in parliament. Vichy WP would be more than happy and very quiet to let Aljunied people money being pocketed by PAP. But why are the Aljunied people being treated so cheap and expendable by Vichy WP?
Very likely, Vichy WP is using the issue and Aljuined people as political hostages in their political backroom dealings with the PAP regime. As long as PAP does not attack Vichy WP, the latter, likewise, would not expose them.
“If you don’t touch me, and I won’t touch you; You scratch my backside, and I cover your ass.”
Such is the state of the Duopoly political system in Singapore. Instead of becoming a First World Parliament, this is downslidng into a Byzantine palace power-broker game.
If anything, this episode clearly demonstrates the risks to Singaporeans of having a lack of alternative and genuine Opposition in every sense.
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A Lesson on the Need for Alternatives
http://www.ahtc.org.sg/ahtc/media-release-28-december-2012/
If anything, this episode clearly demonstrates the risks to Singaporeans of having a lack of
alternatives in every sense.
From the petty squabble between PAP and Vichy WP about the sale of town councils’ computer and financial systems, it is very obvious that both parties are treating the Aljnunied voters as bargaining chips in their political horse-trading.
If PAP has been screwing the system and deliberately sabotaging Vichy WP since Aug 2011, why didn’t Vichy WP slap the PAP and speak up for the Aljunied people then? Why now, after more than 1 year and after all the Aljunied people money had been successfully siphoned over to PAP?
In fact, if HDB had not criticised Vichy WP and gave them a red score on town management in the first place, Vichy WP most likely will continue to act blur and keep quiet on this issue just as they have always been sleeping and idling on every national issues in parliament. Vichy WP would be more than happy and very quiet to let Aljunied people money being pocketed by PAP. But why are the Aljunied people being treated so cheap and expendable by Vichy WP?
Very likely, Vichy WP is using the issue and Aljuined people as political hostages in their political backroom dealings with the PAP regime. As long as PAP does not attack Vichy WP, the latter, likewise, would not expose them.
“If you don’t touch me, and I won’t touch you; You scratch my backside, and I cover your ass.”
Such is the state of the Duopoly political system in Singapore. Instead of becoming a First World Parliament, this is downslidng into a Byzantine palace power-broker game.
If anything, this episode clearly demonstrates the risks to Singaporeans of having a lack of alternative and genuine Opposition in every sense.
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