I think he has improved a lot and is seriously gunning for the presidency. Unlike PE 2011, he know this time round there is no TCB nor TJS so he is in fact representing the sole torch carrier of an independent candidate to hoot the estab. Hoot Hor Yi Si!
TKL is not independent. He was a PAP member since 1978 and for 30 years, was a PAP balls carrier (heavyweight division). He left in 2008 after setting his future sights on contesting the 2011 PE. Needless to say, he now tries to play down his close ties with the PAP.
As I am too lazy to write up too much on this clown who I predict, will lose his deposit again, I will copy and paste some of my posts from the past (2011) about him. They are still valid today.
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https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/tan-kin-lian-robin-hood-complex.95763/page-3#post-761520
"...He has achieved much with hard work and common sense but he has one unfulfilled desire: "I want to have a PhD. I want to be Dr Tan Kin Lian! It's a test."
Of what?
"Of whether I can make it."... "Tan Kin Lian, 'Just catch me the rat' 147th Prostitute Press, 30 August 1992
I first dealt with TKL about 15 -20 years ago (can't recall exactly when) in soc.culture.singapore before Sam started Sammyboy forum.
What struck me then about TKL was his acute vanity and peacockish narcissism. His seemingly unquenchable thirst for the spotlight and desperate craving for the limelight were as constant as they were shameless.
I can't recall exactly his stupid answer when he was questioned on the ethics of him as CEO of NTUC spending $600,000 of the cooperative's money on politically partisan RCs for their noticeboards in the 90s. He gave some stupid, forgettable reason/s just as he used to give vacuous replies, and just as he used to parrot and vomit out the same, tired PAP's position on nearly every issue that he chose to argue about or comment on.
15-20 years later, we have an older but same old, egotistical Tan Kin Lian vomiting out the same trite replies and rubbish he was vomiting out 15-20 years ago.
Nothing has changed.
This answer he gave in his 1992 interview with the Prostitute Press, perhaps, is an honest indication on why he really wants to run for President. It has nothing to do with the trite, silly and inane rubbish he has been throwing up but everything to do with whether he, Tan Kin Lian, can "make it".
Being President would be Tan Kin Lian's personal and ultimate "test" of whether he can "make it".