Get Our Priorities Right
Updated 08:11 PM May 12, 2011
GRC was intended for minority candidates to get into Parliament but it also ushered too many ‘borderline’ non-minority candidates in riding on the coattails of heavyweight, sure-win candidates.
This is not in the best interest of Singapore in the long run as it is system based on patronage and cronyism.
No one should get into Parliament riding on the coattails of another candidate.
There is a better way : have 87 wards of which 15 wards are minority wards and only they can contest in these wards and the best 15 will be elected by the multi-racial voters in these 15 wards into parliament. Then and only then are GRC formed by adjacent wards of the same party.
The present GRC is also a double-edged sword and could be the seed of destruction of its creators as a freak election can wipe them all out.
The Aljunied GRC has already backfired, with the unintentional loss of a world–class FM and S’pore’s first female cabinet minister and both are giving ‘uniquely Singapore’ politics a wide berth in the future.
That’s not all. The scary thing is that a freak election could also set Singapore back for good if a new incoming govt has bad intentions but has a 2/3 majority in Parliament.
It can literally change the constitution to suit the party, increase the new ministers’ salaries, pensions and benefits through the proverbial roof, put it’s own crony in the Istana, raid the reserves and then turn Singaporeans into the denizens of a ‘Kelong’.
Let's pray and pray it won't happen.
http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC110512-0000770/Consider-reverting-to-three-member-GRCs
Is he a PAP supporter or closet opposition supporter?
Updated 08:11 PM May 12, 2011
GRC was intended for minority candidates to get into Parliament but it also ushered too many ‘borderline’ non-minority candidates in riding on the coattails of heavyweight, sure-win candidates.
This is not in the best interest of Singapore in the long run as it is system based on patronage and cronyism.
No one should get into Parliament riding on the coattails of another candidate.
There is a better way : have 87 wards of which 15 wards are minority wards and only they can contest in these wards and the best 15 will be elected by the multi-racial voters in these 15 wards into parliament. Then and only then are GRC formed by adjacent wards of the same party.
The present GRC is also a double-edged sword and could be the seed of destruction of its creators as a freak election can wipe them all out.
The Aljunied GRC has already backfired, with the unintentional loss of a world–class FM and S’pore’s first female cabinet minister and both are giving ‘uniquely Singapore’ politics a wide berth in the future.
That’s not all. The scary thing is that a freak election could also set Singapore back for good if a new incoming govt has bad intentions but has a 2/3 majority in Parliament.
It can literally change the constitution to suit the party, increase the new ministers’ salaries, pensions and benefits through the proverbial roof, put it’s own crony in the Istana, raid the reserves and then turn Singaporeans into the denizens of a ‘Kelong’.
Let's pray and pray it won't happen.
http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC110512-0000770/Consider-reverting-to-three-member-GRCs
Is he a PAP supporter or closet opposition supporter?
