
WP’s fictional First World Parliament?
Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 19 Apr 2011 letter by Ms Indranee Rajah. Ms Rajah claims that there is no successful model for the Workers' Party's vision of a first world parliament. Ms Rajah should first define what she means by successful. Does she mean successful economically? The rise of one-party China shows that you...

Want good people in govt? Stop the ridicule
Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 17 Apr 2011 letter by Ms Jolly Wee. Ms Wee says it is getting more difficult to get the right people into government and this would make securing Singapore's future less certain. Like most people, Ms Wee believes that it is the government that secures the country's future. But if we look at...

Is a multi-party system good for S’pore?
Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 14 Apr 2011 article by Mr Daniel Yew. Mr Yew points to the near shutdown of US government services as an example of checks and balances checkmating the government itself. But the example is not quite valid because at the end of the day, US politicians avoided government services shutdown and...
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