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TJS say should just shut up. He's no politician, he has no strong background. PPE so what? People have PhD in politics.
TJS has always been a strange chap. In his whole life, he has worked with people who were not easy to work with - in those days of civil service they would expect nothing less than full obedience from him - more so when he was always holding high ranks and getting promoted over others. Goh Chok Tong, Albert Winsemius, Ngiam Tong Dow etc. Note that he has worked with GCT not only as a PPS from 1985 to 1990, but as a founding employee of MTI from 1979 to 1985, he has served GCT for 12 years including when GCT was MTI minister during the same period.
Yet he stepped into politics, you see a soloist, erratic, unmannered and retracting. It's not so much about changing partisanship, as attested by his own former colleague Ngiam at MTI. But Ngiam effectively remains the same person, only his views changed and he became more vocal. He didn't become another person.
Question is why there seems to be this sudden explosion of political activism and political wannabes?
Ngiam did not run a company to the ground and therefore considered an untouchable in his industry / umemployable in his industry. One would change and change dramatically in such circumstances.
(the intellectual ones are the most insidious ones like GMS)
zhihau said:it looked like the cambrian explosion to me
You are saying these are dinosaur wannabes?
Goh Meng Seng said:Well, if WP perform badly in this by-elections, I don't think they will just bump into any 3 corner fights anyhow.
GOh Meng Seng
Well, if WP perform badly in this by-elections, I don't think they will just bump into any 3 corner fights anyhow.
GOh Meng Seng
Why wait for them to perform badly? Why be constrained by NSP/SDP/SPP/TJS declaration of no contest? You are your own man no? Come on, show the rest of Singapore how fucked up WP is and the fucking up of YSL's affairs. Offer yourself in as a credible candidate with 101% integrity? Show us the goods and that we have a choice other than the crappy WP and equally fucked up WP.
We believe in you leh
so many bros here support goh meng seng.
come on goh meng seng. you can win hougang. go for it !
Well, if WP perform badly in this by-elections, I don't think they will just bump into any 3 corner fights anyhow.
GOh Meng Seng
Many bros in this forum already predicted correctly that some these people who expressed interested in Hougang would later use the tactic of pulling out and claim to be doing WP a favour, and ask for the same "favour" in return.
It's like those kids' games where I push you, then hold your arm, then say "I saved you".
wwabbit said:I don't see a problem with what Tan Jee Say said.
I'm fully confident that Worker's Party will reciprocate and not force 3 Cornered Fights in a constituency that has an opposition incumbent.
TJS has always been a strange chap. In his whole life, he has worked with people who were not easy to work with - in those days of civil service they would expect nothing less than full obedience from him - more so when he was always holding high ranks and getting promoted over others. Goh Chok Tong, Albert Winsemius, Ngiam Tong Dow etc. Note that he has worked with GCT not only as a PPS from 1985 to 1990, but as a founding employee of MTI from 1979 to 1985, he has served GCT for 12 years including when GCT was MTI minister during the same period.
Yet he stepped into politics, you see a soloist, erratic, unmannered and retracting. It's not so much about changing partisanship, as attested by his own former colleague Ngiam at MTI. But Ngiam effectively remains the same person, only his views changed and he became more vocal. He didn't become another person.
I don't see a problem with what Tan Jee Say said.
I'm fully confident that Worker's Party will reciprocate and not force 3 Cornered Fights in a constituency that has an opposition incumbent.