PM Lee dreaded the prospect of losing 10 or more seats to the opposition – now that it has happened, what’s his game plan?
The Workers’ Party now has 10 seats in Parliament – a scenario that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong once said he needed to be wary of. Back in 2006, PM Lee spoke about how the opposition’s job was “to make life miserable” for him and if there were 10 or more of them in Parliament, he would have to spend time “thinking...
Get rid of political parties
I wish to discuss a system of electing community leaders and law makers that is not based on political parties. I shall refer to them as community leaders, and use the term to include the law makers, i.e. the people who pass the law in the national parliament. I wish to avoid using the term "politician". I wish to get away from...
An attempt at a post-mortem of the GE
There were genuine fears among opposition leaders that there could be a complete wipe out of the opposition in the general election. In the event I think God had looked kindly on Singapore opposition and could have ordained that there should be some semblance of democracy in Singapore politics. And Workers' Party could have...
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