To protect its cohesion and unity, every society needs to define its own identity and be able to refresh its social consensus on values and viewpoints as these evolve: Chan Chun Sing

In an inter-connected world, our society is also exposed to ideologies and movements that originated from other parts of the world, with different contexts and values systems.

"Some segments of our population may be influenced by such external forces without a full and critical appreciation of our local context or history," Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said.

"This has ignited the contestation of ideas and ideologies in society, resulting in more and deeper divides among the citizenry.

To protect its cohesion and unity, every society needs to define its own identity and be able to refresh its social consensus on values and viewpoints as these evolve," he added.

It is so easy to be the opposition in Singapore. Jamus just claims credit.

 

It is so easy to be the opposition in Singapore..

The Progressive Wage Model is the brainchild of Lim Swee Say and Tripartite partners have been working since 2012 to implement the models for the various sectors.

But who remembers Lim Swee Say or gives him credit for it?

The model, despite it making a big difference to workers, in fact came under criticism all because it is from the ruling party.

Then came Jamus from WP who declared that the model was along the lines that the WP has been fighting for. And for good measure, he added the 'make your vote count' tag to his post..And fans were delighted. "Ya, thank you, WP, well done, this is why we need more opposition".

And then we have PSP Leong Mun Wai taking credit for conversations that apparently were started by him. It's as though before LMW appeared on the scene, no one gave a dime about PMEs.. And of course fans cheered and went "Thank you Sir. This is why we need more opposition."

Hello, Mr Leong. These engagements or conversations started more than a year ago in August 2020. It didn't start because you made a speech in Parliament.

It's so easy to be Opposition in Singapore. Leong Mun Wai just claims credit.

The hard work was done a year ago that began with first engaging thousands of PMEs through dialogues, feedback channels and surveys. This is then followed by engaging stakeholders, namely, the employers through SNEF.

The recommendations were the outcomes of many, many engagements and much hard work.

It did not just happen because Leong Mun Wai made a speech and some Facebook posts.

But why are we not surprised that Leong is so quick to claim credit?

Rule of law and separation of powers: Shanmugam

The Workers' Party came to give a lecture on rule of law and separation of powers and this is what Law Minister Shanmugam said in his response.

Rule of law and separation of powers are fundamental to Singapore's success, and indeed, survival as well.

But it also takes courage and political will to deal with real problems instead of offering soaring rhetoric.

Facebook is Jamus' research tool

 Something is clearly wrong when Facebook is your tool to guage foreign interference.

𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘂𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝗶'𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗲𝘀 : 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱

𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘂𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝗶'𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗲𝘀 : 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱

PSP Leong Mun Wai was the one who took parliamentary debate past midnight insisting 'not enough information'.

But he was also the one who told National Development Minister Desmond Lee there was too much to read when the minister encouraged him to read the industry transformation map for the construction industry.

And now he complains about not being able to understand the amendments. So does he understand what he is opposing?