“Fewer citizens now believe the PAP has our interests at heart because the PAP has thrived on: 1 Minimal transparency 2 No accountability 3 Maximum control of citizens through its absolute control of state resources, civil service, grassroots and security…
Category: Dirty Politics
This category contains the dirty political events we witness in Singapore. Be it extreme elitism, favoritism, pork barrel politics, name calling, non-transparency etc etc.
Singapore is the new playground for the superich!
The list of Super rich that moves to Singapore recently: Eduardo Saverin, the Brazilian co-founder of Facebook Nathan Tinkler from Australia Jet Li, Hong Kong movie superstar Gong Li, China movie superstar B. K. Modi, the global Chairman of Spice…
Address root causes of anti-foreigner sentiments
Source: The Straits Times Oct 07, 2014 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has called upon Singaporeans not to be overly distracted by internal issues while losing sight of the bigger picture (“PM calls on S’pore to look outwards and…
Aljunied Town Council sued by NEA
[Askmelah Note: 1. The manpower cost, time and legal fee involved will be way way more than the $1,000. Is our overly paid civil servants too free or what? 2. If this case happens to PAP-ruling council, will the…
Singapore is very sick and here are the reasons
“Greed attracts greed. Period. Nothing good comes out of greedy people.” “The PAP’s philosophy that you go into government to get rich extends to its MPs, most of whom hold lucrative primary jobs, like Alvin Yeo, Jannelle Puthucheary, Hari Nair,…
Foreign sport talent imports don’t work!
Related links: The Flawed Foreign Sports Talent Scheme Flawed Foreign Sports Talent scheme Part2 We import foreign athletes? Hells yeah No pride in 76% of medals won by foreign-born athletes Lee Bee Wah quits because of foreign talent issues Despite…
MPs, where are your commitment?
Questions over lack of quorum Source: The Straits Times, Jul 14, 2014 I WAS disappointed to read that there were too few members in a recent Parliament sitting to pass two Bills (“Eugene Tan keeps an eagle eye on quorum numbers”;…
Turning Singapore into a police state …
“When you have public servants ready to spend $25,000 on French cooking lessons on paid vacations, can we expect them to be sensitive or numbed when it comes to spending public funds?” Just because we can afford, it does not…
Inderjit Singh’s Facebook post on Singapore’s policy missteps
Askmelah: 12 years after that earth-shattering speech by ex-speaker of parliament Mr. Tan Soo Khoon, people has been bemoaning that PAP MPs these days are just a bunch of YESmen and YESWomen and career seeking politicians, civil servants and paper…
Constructive politics? Here is the proof
In President Tony Tan’s 2014 address when he reopened the 12th Parliament earlier this month, Dr Tan called for constructive politics that would not weaken the country, while he welcomed vigorous debate on the challenges ahead. And see these “constructive…
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