From “A Blog Day’s Work”:
Once again, the People’s Action Party’s inability to work beyond party demarcation and on the national platform has surfaced.
This was evident when the HDB accorded the privilege of “fronting” the Lift Upgrading Programme in Hougang and Potong Pasir to the two grassroots advisors, who were concurrently defeated PAP candidates in two consectutive General Elections.
Perhaps it was sufficient public bewilderment that prompted National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan to stand out and clarify the matter, which he did so in an ST interview published on 9 October 2009:
“I don’t expect the MP who is not a government MP or PAP MP to go and front it, and explain why the Lift Upgrading Programme is like that…”
While the mainstream media would not have the tendency to portray a PAP minister in a bad light, the above statement itself was enough for Mr Mah to shine it on himself.
He mentioned “MPs” – but are the two PAP representatives “MPs” in the first place?
Read the full article at:
http://tankianhwee.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/a-lost-sense-of-parliamentary-democracy/
