March 10, 2009
Statement by Mr Ng Teck Siong, Chairman of the Reform Party
10 March 2009
On 14 August 2008, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said: “They (the young generation) say, oh, let’s have multi-party politics. Let’s have different parties change and be in charge of the government … … Is it that simple? You vote in a Division Three government, not a Division One government, and the whole economy will just subside within three, four years. Finished!” (TODAY newspaper, “MM Lee questions younger Singaporeans’ desire for multi-party politics”, 14 August 2008)
On 05 March 2009 in the Straits Times, when asked why the CEO post in Temasek had been handed over to an expatriate American Charles Goodyear, Mr Lee said that there was nobody inside Temasek equal to the job, that Mr Goodyear has “a proven record, and we feel he was a better man than what we had within the system”. Mr Lee also said that Mr Goodyear was also “somebody exposed to world markets”.
The irony of the two comments within a period of six months shows how contradictory Mr Lee can be.
But what is most significant is that he can say that his so-called PAP Division One Government cannot produce a talent within its own system fit enough to take over the CEO post in Temasek, the role of managing our country’s own reserves.
So what sort of Division One Government is the PAP? Under its rule of 50 years, the system has failed disastrously to nurture and grow talents in Singapore. This great dependency on foreign talents must awake Singaporeans from their slumber of over-reliance on this so-called Division One Government of the PAP.
Mr Ng Teck SiongChairman, Reform Party
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Dear Ng Teck Siong,
I am a student at the university of Amsterdam. At this moment I am in the end phase of my study and have started to conduct research for my thesis to complete my master in political science. In my thesis and related research I aim at analyzing blogs in Singapore that focus on Singaporean politics, including for instance political issues, political system critics etc.
I would be very grateful if you could send me the links of the most authoritative or well known and well regarded blogs writing about Singaporean politics you know next to your own blog. Maybe you have friends who also write on these matters. If you could forward my e-mail to them and ask them to respond to me, that would be great. Alternatively you could send me their e-mail address or url so that I can contact them myself.
I have one more request. Is it possible that you would cooperate with me and that you answer some questions I will send to you? The questions will be about blogging in Singapore.
Thank you very much for your help!
Yours sincerely,
Sarah Nienke van Voorthuisen
S.N.vanVoorthuisen@student.uva.nl
Dear Ng Teck Siong,
I am a student at the university of Amsterdam. At this moment I am in the end phase of my study and have started to conduct research for my thesis to complete my master in political science. In my thesis and related research I aim at analyzing blogs in Singapore that focus on Singaporean politics, including for instance political issues, political system critics etc.
I would be very grateful if you could send me the links of the most authoritative or well known and well regarded blogs writing about Singaporean politics you know next to your own blog. Maybe you have friends who also write on these matters. If you could forward my e-mail to them and ask them to respond to me, that would be great. Alternatively you could send me their e-mail address or url so that I can contact them myself.
I have one more request. Is it possible that you would cooperate with me and that you answer some questions I will send to you? The questions will be about blogging in Singapore.
Thank you very much for your help!
Yours sincerely,
Sarah Nienke van Voorthuisen
S.N.vanVoorthuisen@student.uva.nl
Post a Comment