Tag: parliament

LHL Uses His Coercive Control of Parliament and the AG to Get Rid of Opposition He Doesn’t Like to Replace Them with People Like Him Just As His Dad Did With JBJ

I want today to talk about the extraordinary saga that is taking place with regard to the Committee of Privileges and its recommendation that Pritam Singh and Faisal Manap be […]

kjeyaretnam February 16, 2022 2 Comments

Heng Doesn’t Give Any Good Reasons Why the Government Are So Desperate to Rush This Election

Lee Kuan Yew and his son Hsien Loong have never been less than utterly ruthless in crushing any threat to their rule or opportunistically taking full advantage of any crisis. […]

Budget 2020: Despite Biggest Threat to the Singapore Economy Since 2008 It’s Deja Vu as Heng and His Master Play Their Old Tricks of Hiding The Money

Every year the Finance Minister produces the same fake Budget in a process that at various points over the years I have been writing my blog I have characterised as […]

Singaporeans Should Take Note of Today’s UK Supreme Court Decision

The UK Supreme Court has ruled unanimously today that the UK PM Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament in an effort to prevent it from delaying or revoking Brexit was unlawful […]

Why Ho Ching Must Declare Her Salary

On 1 July Malaysia’s Parliament passed a motion to require all MPs, as well as their wives and children, to declare their assets. While it has not yet been passed […]

PAP’s Tactics Against Sylvia Lim Follow A Familiar Pattern of Fake News and Distraction

Now that Parliament has passed the charade of fake accounting and sham spending that is the PAP’s excuse for a Budget, Singaporeans can look forward to the exciting prospect of […]

Leon Perera Is No JBJ Despite Chee’s Attack

On Thursday last state-owned Mediacorp publication Today carried a report about an exchange between Leon Perera, the WP NCMP, and Minister of State Chee Hong Tat in Parliament on Tuesday. […]

Budget 2016: Stuck in a Car in the Fog. Who to Ask for Directions?

Since 2012 I have pointed out, repeatedly, that the Singapore Budget presentation gives a deeply misleading picture of the Government’s finances. I have written innumerable times on how the Budget does […]

Why A By-Election Must Be Held in Tanjong Pagar

The death of Lee Kuan Yew leaves his seat in Tanjong Pagar GRC vacant. Recently a Bloomberg journalist asked me to comment on the suggestion that Lee’s seat in Tanjong Pagar […]

Did Lee Hsien Loong breach the Ministerial Code of Conduct?

I made the following posts on Facebook at midnight on Friday. I have now decided to put the posts up on my blog to answer some online comments I am […]