PS noting that in 2022, “the PM did not bat an eyelid in giving the leader of the opposition a sermon on Confucian ethics, morality and shame even though at the material time he would have been aware of the affair between speaker Tan Chuan Jin and MP Cheng Li Hui.”
Both are stories on analysts’ reactions to essentially the same issue — lawmakers stepping down after an affair — idk bout you but hed and lede in one seems kinder than the other? 🤔
Pritam Singh explaining that the issue with Leon Perera and Nicole Seah was less about the affair between them than it was about their dishonesty to the Workers’ Party leadership:
Pritam Singh on the “uncanny coincidence” of the Leon Perera and Nicole Seah video appearing online just hours before the announcement of the affair between Tan Chuan-Jin and Cheng Li Hui.
Pritam Singh: “Going forward, the 4G PAP leadership cannot be dismissive or breezily use ‘national security’ or ‘sensitivity’ as reasons for withholding information without good reason” (2/2).
In this week’s essay, Jom scrutinises the Workers’ Party’s 2019 housing paper and comments by the People’s Action Party. Our conclusion is that the PAP has certainly misrepresented the WP.
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Over the weekend and at the start of this week, Singapore’s unaffordable housing and overall skyrocketing cost of living was in the headlines. Then, Pritam Singh points out, the PAP deployed “a convenient distraction”:
Pritam Singh giving a masterclass on how to use NewspapersSG (https://t.co/dZ9bev2XZH) to your advantage. In this first clip, he even brings in an original copy of the article, perhaps from the Parliament archive 🧵1/3
Pritam Singh discussing 2011 General Election when Vivian Balakrishnan outed his SDP opponent Vincent Wijeysingha by telling him to “come out of the closet.” A PAP statement that followed also insinuated that Wijeysingha was a pedophile.
Pritam: "Today, I will speak about a key issue in achieving effective and constructive politics. Namely, how to find Singaporeans who are prepared to undertake public service through opposition politics—to have them join as party members, and perhaps even stand as candidates." 🧵
"The Workers’ Party will always be fighting for a more democratic Singapore with the cards in our hands and not the cards in the PAP’s hands, something the public understands well."