[BicCherry]

"Meritocrazy": The differences in path to Parliament, PAP vs Opposition in Singapore.

PAP:
'Without some assurance of a good chance of winning at least their first election, many able and successful young Singaporeans may not risk their careers to join politics,' [url='http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-615.htm']Mr Goh Chok Tong, June 2006 ['GRCs make it easier to find top talent: SM'].[/url]

[Pict= Disassembling GRC system benefits PAP (Part 1 of 3)]

Opposition :
https://youtu.be/NGPLNQzKGSA
Slippery stairs - A Japanese games show - YouTube
[youtube]NGPLNQzKGSA[/youtube]
https://you*tu.be/NGPLNQzKGSA (remove the *)

Why:
Because the AGC also moonlights as the PAP election campaign manager :
(https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/02/03/inside-outside-upside-down/)

And because the PM is a gangster with no morals whatsoever :
([url='http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1WhJKsYb50']YouTube; LHL: "fix the opposition"[/url])

And the brown nose beneficiaries (coat tail PAP MPs) enter into parliament fully obligated on repaying their masters by performing their duties as parrots/ echo chambers of the ministers fettish/ as the minister's personal stooge, crony/ butlers on pain of losing their PAP membership and by extension, their well paid MP position as well:
"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals. Hence, a reasonable payout will help to maintain a bit of dignity."
- [url='https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/reasonable-pay-help-maintain-bit-dignity-084833549.html']MP Lim Wee Kiak apologises for comments on pay[/url]
[[url='http://asingaporeanson.blogspot.sg/2012/02/khaw-beh-khaw-bu.html']IMG URL[/url]]

And as for the 69.9% of unwashed hoi polloi, plebeians who invariably root for the PAP, it feels great to do national service duties to protect the culture of systematic fixing of opposition political parties as well as freehold properties of their slave masters, the Aristocrats and the Royalty.
[Letter to Today] NS a duty, not a job — thus no ‘salary’: Mindef


Nuff said in my summary of the state of politics in Singapore.