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.

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The Government is constantly looking for ways to be able to supplement our revenue but to do that in a way that strikes the right balance.

On wealth taxes, Second Minister for Finance Indranee Rajah said that it is not about having more types of wealth taxes per se.

Rather, what matters is having wealth tax policies that work in the context of each jurisdiction. She was responding to WP Jamus Lim's proposal of a wealth tax.

"Take, for example, Switzerland, which has a net wealth tax, estate duty and property-related tax. In total, their wealth tax revenue is about 1.9% of GDP. This is comparable to Singapore's wealth tax revenue at about 1.8% of our GDP," she said.

The Government will continue to review the wealth tax.

"The question has never been one of whether we want to tax wealth but a practical one, of how to do so effectively such that it cannot be avoided easily," she said.

"At the end of the day, I think we do not have any issue with wealth taxes per say. We just want to make sure that whatever we put in place actually works."

"It must be remembered that wealth can move. Talent, both Singaporean as well as foreign, can move. Companies can move.

So, we have to tax in a way that is competitive and allows people and companies to generate revenue in order to encourage them to stay here and that revenue can then be used and reallocated and distributed."

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