Many netizens, including forummers here believed that people like Ong Teng Cheong, George Yeo, Tan Cheng Bock and to a lesser extent, Inderjit Singh are the conscience of the PAP and has the general masses’ well being at heart. This is far from the truth.
Many people hailed OTC as the people’s president, care for the people and dare to stood up against the PAP. His request for a list of our reserves was often cited as proof of him challenging the PAP. This assertion is laughable. OTC being the first elected president, has no precedence to follow. He requested for something he thought he has a right to know but, as a Chinese saying goes, kicked the iron plate (踢到鐵板). He backed-off and didn’t dare to pursue further.
He made a lot of noises at the end of his term as the PAP did not support his re-election. If he is gutsy enough, or really wanted to do something for the people, or strongly believed he has the right to know, he should have insisted on being given the information. He should have brought up the issue during his presidency and not after leaving office. He should have stand for re-election with or without PAP’s support. Alas, he chickened out and suffered the indignation following his demised.
GY has been a PAP minister for donkey years. He has never before utter any word for the people. Instead, he was famously remembered for his “no big no small” (沒大沒小) admonishment of Catherine Lim. He only tried to portrayed himself as the conscience of the PAP when he sensed his imminent defeat in Aljunied in GE2011.
As a former Minister for Trade & Industry, he has inside knowledge of every aspect of how our economic policies work. He choose instead to work for our fiercest rival despite still receiving state pension. I can only think of one work to describe him – traitor.
TCB has been a PAP MP for close to 30 years. Despite not being a office bearer, he was in the inner circle of PAP by virtue of his position in the CEC. He has also served as Chairman of various GPCs, TCs and CDCs. In other words, he is PA to the core.
Many admire him for being the only PAP MP ever to vote against party line with the whip was not lifted. But the vote, against the NMP scheme, was of no consequential to the ordinary people.
He was credited for arguing successfully for free parking on Sunday and using CPF to pay for university tuition fees and I thank him for that. But on the other hand, despite claiming he was not comfortable with the information at hand, he still supported the government’s handling of the Marxist conspiracy, an incident which wrecked the lives of many young impressionable social workers.
I also take issue with the series of actions he undertook leading up to PE2011 such as aligning himself with the opposition to gain opposition votes, resigned from the Jurong Hospital board over the naming rights of the hospital. I don’t remember him uttering a work when Yishun Hospital was named after KTP.
Finally, we come to IS. He has been a PAP lackey all the while and has benefited tremendously as a result. He became a very rich man following the listing of UTAC.
In the recent debate on the Population White Paper, he became the most ferocious critics, exceeding even the WP MPs. Many were under the misguided illusion that he will become TCB the second. How wrong this can be. He chooses not to vote and has no guts to say whether he was in the chamber. He didn't dare to stand up for what he “believed” and was roundly criticized for being a hypocrite.
He now claimed that those criticisms were unfair, that he couldn’t vote against the PWP as the party whip was not lifted. He forgot that there is such a thing called “resignation”. If he was sincere in what he said, shouldn’t he back it up with action. Hypocrisy, no?
There are a few other ex-PAP members who had suddenly found their conscious after being made redundant, but these 4 have being the most talked about, some admired while others despised. To me, they are all hypocrites.
I have more respect for those PAP loyal doggies. At least people like Ho Kah Leong, Chandra Das, Peh Chin Wah et al stays the course and support their masters till the end.
Many people hailed OTC as the people’s president, care for the people and dare to stood up against the PAP. His request for a list of our reserves was often cited as proof of him challenging the PAP. This assertion is laughable. OTC being the first elected president, has no precedence to follow. He requested for something he thought he has a right to know but, as a Chinese saying goes, kicked the iron plate (踢到鐵板). He backed-off and didn’t dare to pursue further.
He made a lot of noises at the end of his term as the PAP did not support his re-election. If he is gutsy enough, or really wanted to do something for the people, or strongly believed he has the right to know, he should have insisted on being given the information. He should have brought up the issue during his presidency and not after leaving office. He should have stand for re-election with or without PAP’s support. Alas, he chickened out and suffered the indignation following his demised.
GY has been a PAP minister for donkey years. He has never before utter any word for the people. Instead, he was famously remembered for his “no big no small” (沒大沒小) admonishment of Catherine Lim. He only tried to portrayed himself as the conscience of the PAP when he sensed his imminent defeat in Aljunied in GE2011.
As a former Minister for Trade & Industry, he has inside knowledge of every aspect of how our economic policies work. He choose instead to work for our fiercest rival despite still receiving state pension. I can only think of one work to describe him – traitor.
TCB has been a PAP MP for close to 30 years. Despite not being a office bearer, he was in the inner circle of PAP by virtue of his position in the CEC. He has also served as Chairman of various GPCs, TCs and CDCs. In other words, he is PA to the core.
Many admire him for being the only PAP MP ever to vote against party line with the whip was not lifted. But the vote, against the NMP scheme, was of no consequential to the ordinary people.
He was credited for arguing successfully for free parking on Sunday and using CPF to pay for university tuition fees and I thank him for that. But on the other hand, despite claiming he was not comfortable with the information at hand, he still supported the government’s handling of the Marxist conspiracy, an incident which wrecked the lives of many young impressionable social workers.
I also take issue with the series of actions he undertook leading up to PE2011 such as aligning himself with the opposition to gain opposition votes, resigned from the Jurong Hospital board over the naming rights of the hospital. I don’t remember him uttering a work when Yishun Hospital was named after KTP.
Finally, we come to IS. He has been a PAP lackey all the while and has benefited tremendously as a result. He became a very rich man following the listing of UTAC.
In the recent debate on the Population White Paper, he became the most ferocious critics, exceeding even the WP MPs. Many were under the misguided illusion that he will become TCB the second. How wrong this can be. He chooses not to vote and has no guts to say whether he was in the chamber. He didn't dare to stand up for what he “believed” and was roundly criticized for being a hypocrite.
He now claimed that those criticisms were unfair, that he couldn’t vote against the PWP as the party whip was not lifted. He forgot that there is such a thing called “resignation”. If he was sincere in what he said, shouldn’t he back it up with action. Hypocrisy, no?
There are a few other ex-PAP members who had suddenly found their conscious after being made redundant, but these 4 have being the most talked about, some admired while others despised. To me, they are all hypocrites.
I have more respect for those PAP loyal doggies. At least people like Ho Kah Leong, Chandra Das, Peh Chin Wah et al stays the course and support their masters till the end.
