Yaw Shin Leong is sticking to his assertion that he was advised to stay silent

 

Yaw Shin Leong is sticking to his assertion that he was advised to stay silent.

"Whoever involved would know what happened. After staying silent for the past 10 years, I am not resurfacing this for any reason other than to put on record that accountability was done."

That's his response to WP's statement denying that they advised him to stay silent.

Yaw Shin Leong said he was advised by Low Thia Khiang and Sylvia Lim to stay silent.

If you keep covering up, the past will soon catch up with you.

Yaw Shin Leong (also known as Amos Rao) wrote:

Moments ago, an ex-WP cadre pointed to me the video recordings of Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh’s press conference held on Dec 2, 2021. At the 9.35 mark, Pritam commented that:

‘Yaw Shin Leong did not account himself to the party after the allegations were made. I think he did not address the media, did not address the party. The party was willing to give him some space to get himself organized, but this just went on and it went on, to a point where it was unreasonable conduct and this was not acceptable. And so, the party took the decision to fire him, to sack him.”

The above is not true. Even before the allegations have surfaced, I accounted the situation candidly to WP Secretary General LTK. When the allegations surfaced, I immediately accounted to both WP Secretary General LTK and Chairman Sylvia Lim. And I was advised to stay silent.

I placed party first before self and to minimize the fallout, I kept silent and resigned from WP CEC. My intention was to give WP CEC a blank cheque to paint the narrative required. To facilitate the process, I travelled out of Singapore voluntarily.

On 14th Feb 2012, I was expelled from WP for 'breaking the faith, trust & expectations of the party and people'. I am okay with this narrative, but I am not okay with what Pritam said, for I did account myself.

I am not entertaining any media queries and will leave the above as it is.

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First Raeesah Khan, then Workers' Party lied to the whole nation

First Raeesah lied to the entire nation.

Then the WP Leadership also told 'untruths' to the entire nation to cover up their role in the persistence of the lies.

They had told Raeesah to continue with the narrative she had given to Parliament and that if Ms Khan and WP can get away with it, there was no need to clarify the lie. She was asked to 'take the information to the grave'.

One lie after another.

Leaders set the tone for the party and their supporters.

Leaders set the tone for the party and their supporters.

WP whipped up a xenophobic frenzy in 2011. This was despite the fact that back in 2010, then Finance Minister Tharman had already announced in his budget speech that the inflow of foreign workers would be tightened through a series of measures, beginning with the phased in gradual increase in levies over several years, and followed by reduced quota and etc.

The measures were phased in over several years to give businesses time to adjust and to automate. That didn't stop the WP from making political capital gain through xenophobia.

Indeed, when asked if they would ride on xenophobia for election campaigning, the answer Sylvia Lim gave was not 'no' but that they would not push it to the point where it become 'uncontrollable'. One must be a superwoman to think that there is a button where you can just pull the plug when you think xenophobia is reaching the point of being uncontrollable.

Hate is bred. It does not happen overnight. It is bred over time through constant efforts - on social media especially where many anti-establishment hate groups have sprouted up to spread their hate and extend their influence with falsehoods and misinformation, and many memes.

WP Pritam Singh responded to Minister Shanmugam's speech in Parliament saying that WP stands against racism, 'no ifs, no buts'.

Let's hope that he meant what he said and he said what he meant, and that the party, their proxies in the alternative, and their supporters will no
w move away from xenophobia and racism.

WP opppose their own motion just because it was amended

So WP opposed the amendments to their motion even though the amendments essentially affirmed their own statements in Parliament.

What this means is that whatever WP proposes, it has to be adopted in totality. Any adjustment or change to their proposal is unacceptable to them. It has to be WP, 100%.

Thankfully, the Government does not work this way. The government will take into account feedback and suggestions, and make changes and adjustments to policies to make them more effective.