Impressive Aljunied MP Pritam Singh

ChannelNewsAsia reported PM's Saturday morning comments to WP's line that the Hougang by-election was serious business for the party. He said if that was indeed so, the Workers' Party should have put up a good candidate for the constituency in the General Election held in May last year. Whether you have one extra in Hougang or one less in Hougang it doesn't change the basic picture in Parliament. That was not the reason why Hougang's by-election was called. Hougang's by-election is being called because there was a malfunction inside the Workers' Party and therefore they had no choice but to do this.

In response on Saturday night, Aljunied MP Pritam Singh on past instances of corruption among PAP vis-à-vis the Yaw Shin Leong saga: “Singaporeans cannot rely on the PAP to set the standard of politics in Singapore. The PAP took the low road, and in doing so they forgot that age-old saying: If you stay in a glass house, better don’t throw stones… the ruling party seems to have forgotten its own history.”

Of course, no one has forgotten the multiple scandals that came to light from under you since January this year. Shall one say, using your logic, that if government was serious business for you, that you would have put good persons in those positions? And since it came out the other way, shall one come to the conclusion, using your logic again, that government was NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS for you?

Dear PM, you have been urged before to take the high road. The repartee you received from Pritam Singh is merely self-inflicted wound.

I hope you will take to the high road one day. The desire to take the low road turns an otherwise ultra brilliant mind into a muddled one.