We should also remain open to the possibility of a hybrid system, where the majority of seats are determined by a first-past-the-post system, but with a limited number of seats allocated by way of proportional representation.
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On the whole, a fairly good speech, highlighting the particularly key area of GRC representation and its downside. I would have preferred Mr Siew to have touched on ‘fairness’ during the heated conditions surrounding an election and to call on the PAP to be more tolerant of the expressed alternative views, and be more trusting of the electorate to discern truth from lies. The old way of an electorate being told what to believe no longer works. Nitpicking on non-electoral issues and characterisation of electoral opponents will not work.
At point # 14, Mr siew asked: “ Why is it a problem, that Singaporeans are apathetic about and disengaged from the political process? To begin with, Singapore is, and must be, fundamentally for Singaporeans. That being so, Singaporeans have to be responsible for shaping the Singapore story. We cannot leave it to anyone else to do so. And to shape the story, Singaporeans need to participate in politics.“.
This is the sort of argument that gives the PAP the ammunition to gun you down without much effort. These are arguments that have been heard and countered before and it is not worth pursuing. Guess what the answer from PAP will be?
“We have the mandate to govern. The people have voted us, had been voting us comprehensively for the good work we have been doing all these years. We are honest, have a proven track record and the majority of Singaporeans are smart and discerning enough to recognise our virtues and therefore, contrary to minority belief, the PAP has been an inclusive party, allowing all Singaporeans to have their say and be involve in the decision process and progress of the country… blah….blah….blah….“.
See, even I can rattle off just like that.
There is one striking sentence I like most in Mr Siew’s speech when he said: “The destiny of Singapore has to lie in the hands of Singaporeans, and of Singaporeans only“.
We must press on and get this government to recognise the talents from within. Temasek is one good example of the level of trust this PAP government has of its own people. No other Singaporean can take over Ho Ching’s job. This is the biggest insult to Singaporeans yet.
I couldn’t agree with you more,gemami…this insult doesn’t just stop at Temasek holdings,it is happening in all areas.
In their Gahment eyes,there are no talents in singapore only the elites with their Phd ,degrees,doctorate,ER and whatever other titles.
“No other Singaporean can take over Ho Ching’s job. This is the biggest insult to Singaporeans yet.”
Indeed it might be true that no Singaporean can take over HC’s job when it comes to losing billions of state money and yet still living a life of no regret.
LKY always believe Singaporean are the Most Stupid as compare to Baba Lee Family or China Mandrain!
This recession is truth to his beliefs that we can only depend on MNCs and in region can’t even depend on Malays to form a commom market!
But Malaysian, Indonesia perform better than Singapore and even democratic Korean, Taiwan are better than us!
I think this is a bad idea, almost as bad as the NMP scheme. While the NMP scheme suffers from the stigma of illegitimacy, creating separate classes of first-past-the-post MPs and proportional-representation MPs will condemned the latter as being 2nd class MPs.
It should be one way or other, never an admixture.
PAP arguement is always the same, have one dominant power without Check and Balance!
Tell this to China, it is better to support support America and made it Stronger rather than made China powerful to oppose America!
Or tell this to your Weaker Competitor, join my Company and made it Stronger so that we can monopolised the Market!
What kind of Logic they are proposing! Against Darwin Natural Selection process. It is Anti-Competition!
Singaporean lot show PAP what is Competition!
hybrid like? partially outsourced to cut cost?
Whatever system the gahment adopt, it must be fair and transparent. The current system had been corrupted and constant changes to the system only benefit the PAP regime. The other issue of great interest to many Sinkaporean is – why is so many talented and educated Sinkaporean leaving the country and settling in Australia, New Zealand, USA and UK? Is the political system and how it was managed over the years a contributing factor? It was a serious question that warrant a mention by minister GCT. If changes were designed to benefit PAP only then it will fail. Many local talent stay out of politic because unless one was invited to join PAP the alterantive is to join the opposition party. This we all know could mean bankruptcy and jail time. Politic had been made dangerous to both health and wealth of an individual. The next best thing is to blog.