Definition of PAP’s populistic politics: Affordable housing, cost of living, jobs, GST, CPF… Opportunistic solutions like CDC vouchers, GST rebates, subsidies for healthcare, child, unemployment… fail to solve social problems.

 

Definition of PAP’s populistic politics:

Affordable housing, cost of living, jobs, GST, CPF…

Opportunistic solutions like CDC vouchers, GST rebates, subsidies for healthcare, child, unemployment… fail to solve social problems.

Lawrence Wong shoots his own foots by bringing up the populist issues. He ends the debate by saying both sides need to be strong for a maturing democracy.  And “ownself check ownself‘ is not enough, not realistic. 

Wong is in a hurry and worries that things can happen very quickly. While Pritam Singh, the leader of the Opposition, stresses a step-by-step approach, taking one-third of parliament seats in the medium term.

One side is so afraid of losing the long-held power of Singapore.  The other side is taking a slow motion approach by just bringing up unpopular solutions or unworkable approaches from the government. 

Never a time, you see the PAP is so worried of being replaced.  They are very worried about the Chinese saying of ‘fortune never lasted more than three generations’.   

The PAP and the 4G leaders know they cannot solve the urgent problems of affordable housing, high cost of living, good jobs, unemployment problems, GST and CPF.   Once the Opposition brings up the issues,  the PAP will define them as populistic or opportunistic ideas. They know too well they will lose public confidence, public trust, and finally votes in coming elections. 

These are very complicated and difficult problems to solve.  Some are due to external factors.  Some are the PAP’s own making.  But Singaporeans know that we will never find a perfect answer. However, it will cause the PAP to fall ‘quickly’.   Is this the real reason that Wong had to voice his concerns in parliament?