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Law Minister K Shanmugam asked: “Do you or do you not want to give that power, real power to the President?” Sorry but that is a stupid question. Why? Because once upon a time, the Elected President actually had real power. But what happened? The govt changed the law and made him have less power, after the govt was questioned... 

This must be the question in the minds of many after the recommendations by the Constitutional Commission were revealed. Nothing surprising and all the changes were more or less expected, like a child with all the right DNAs of the conceiving parents. So what is new? Many are seeing the intended consequences of the Commission... 

Next time any PAPpy tries to scaremonger us by saying that without PAP hegemony, the economy will collapse remember this extract from BBC Online on Brexit. ‘Booming economy’ “The economy is booming following the vote to leave the EU,” declares the Daily Express lead story about what it describes as “startling new...