Wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems.

Wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. This is especially so in today's world where social media is a medium for propagating and entrenching wrong ideas.

Not only wrong ideas need to be challenged, hypocrisy needs to be exposed.

Wrong ideas like revealing the full size of Singapore reserves and encouraging currency speculation to stabilise the Singapore dollar put Singaporeans' jobs, livelihoods and careers at risk.

For a long time, the WP has pressured the government to spend more from reserves including the direct use of land proceeds for recurrent needs.

Yet, when the government had to dip into reserves because of a unprecedented crisis, they suddenly became very concerned with the dip and asked for an independent budget office to scrutinise the spending for outcomes.

WP calls for an independent body to examine spending, but you will also recall that they resisted an independent audit of their town council finances all the way from the beginning of the saga, fighting every step of the way in court against an independent body to review their finances. They talk, but do not walk their walk.