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06-06-2014, 09:10 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2014...esign-and.html (http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2014/06/the-prime-minister-should-resign-and.html)
Fast forward to 2011 and up to now, one doesn't need to be rocket scientist to know that the PAP is going to lose more seats and see its vote share drop even further. The only question is how much? And after any election success or failure, only 1 person takes the credit or blame - the PM. The problem with the PAP unlike other ruling parties in democracies elsewhere, is that no one actually wants to or dares challenge the leader. The top man sets his goals and how long he plans to stay in power, and everyone down the line agrees. Sometimes it's good to rally behind a leader, to show unity and cohesion, but it can also be bad to continue to rally behind a leader who's losing public confidence or whose policies (which he ultimately answers for) are repeatedly being questioned, rejected and upsetting the electorate.
Does he want to go down in history as the PM with the lowest vote share ever or as the 1st PAP PM to lose power? If he retires now, by resigning his office, he can let a different man tackle the issues and have around 2 years to produce results. Because it's very hard for him to suddenly do a U-turn now on the very policies he introduced in his term. It'll show him as weak or having made a number of mistakes that would tell voters, if we carry on with him, he might again make them. If he sticks to guns and leads the party into the 2016 polls, he's almost certainly to be facing some sort of voter backlash that could leave him very much as a 'lame duck' PM. He only needs to look at Abdullah Badawi in Malaysia for an example. 'Pak Lah' took over from another long serving PM, and like Lee, enjoyed an overwhelming victory in his first elections. But he took a severe pasting in the next and everyone knew it was a rejection of him, as much as a rejection of his party.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?183460-The-Prime-Minister-Should-Resign-and-Retire&goto=newpost).
http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2014...esign-and.html (http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2014/06/the-prime-minister-should-resign-and.html)
Fast forward to 2011 and up to now, one doesn't need to be rocket scientist to know that the PAP is going to lose more seats and see its vote share drop even further. The only question is how much? And after any election success or failure, only 1 person takes the credit or blame - the PM. The problem with the PAP unlike other ruling parties in democracies elsewhere, is that no one actually wants to or dares challenge the leader. The top man sets his goals and how long he plans to stay in power, and everyone down the line agrees. Sometimes it's good to rally behind a leader, to show unity and cohesion, but it can also be bad to continue to rally behind a leader who's losing public confidence or whose policies (which he ultimately answers for) are repeatedly being questioned, rejected and upsetting the electorate.
Does he want to go down in history as the PM with the lowest vote share ever or as the 1st PAP PM to lose power? If he retires now, by resigning his office, he can let a different man tackle the issues and have around 2 years to produce results. Because it's very hard for him to suddenly do a U-turn now on the very policies he introduced in his term. It'll show him as weak or having made a number of mistakes that would tell voters, if we carry on with him, he might again make them. If he sticks to guns and leads the party into the 2016 polls, he's almost certainly to be facing some sort of voter backlash that could leave him very much as a 'lame duck' PM. He only needs to look at Abdullah Badawi in Malaysia for an example. 'Pak Lah' took over from another long serving PM, and like Lee, enjoyed an overwhelming victory in his first elections. But he took a severe pasting in the next and everyone knew it was a rejection of him, as much as a rejection of his party.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?183460-The-Prime-Minister-Should-Resign-and-Retire&goto=newpost).