With Heng Swee Kiat calling it a day, not wanting to be the face of the country, not wanting to take the pressure that is building up in all corners, he must have seen them coming, I would agree that he made the right choice not to be in the way when the roof comes tumbling down.
4 names are now in the front page of the local media as the possible contenders to be PM. Chan Chun Sing, Ong Ye Kung, Lawrence Wong and Desmond Lee are the ones put up by the PAP to prepare the people to get use to them.
What would be the reactions of the people? The real feelings of the people on the choice put forward could not be missed. The heads are all shaking in disbelief but not a word would be spoken. The little noises in the social media were just meaningless noise that at best be forgotten. Without seeing anything, hearing anything, I could still feel the unhappiness, the grudging frustration from some quarters that this could not be, but withholding the words that wanted to throw out from their stomach...but had to swallow them back in silence. Better not to say anything.
The situation is so uncomfortable in the politically conscious quarters struggling to accept what is happening. The reality presented to them is just unbelieveable, more like fiction, more like a badly written script that is best not written.
This is looking like the calm before the storm. It is too peaceful and quiet to believe that all is well. No one will go against the plan, everything will be smooth flowing according to the script and the script writer. The sheep will be sheep, black sheep, white sheep, all will be sheep and will behave exactly like sheep, headless, leaderless, and the sheep dog would have his day.
Is that going to be the order of the day? Dunno about what others feel, I can feel the tension under this fake calm of inactivity.
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When The Crown Prince Has No Crown And Is Not A Prince...
The selection of a successor can be both very easy and very difficult. It depends on the primary motive and idiosyncrasies of the Selector, the King-Maker.
It also depends on the perceptive and judgemental abilities of the King-Maker in identifying the diamond from the arrays of precious stones.
Above all, it depends on the power behind the politics at play.
Usually, in the past, when the PM was on leave, one of the DPMs was appointed as Acting PM. But when the PM was on leave recently and the one and only DPM was not appointed as Acting PM, a deviation from past practices, the discerning public have already sensed something was amiss.
Coupled with a series of "blunders and bungles" made from 2018 onwards, with Netizens questioning the suitability and capabilities of the Crown Prince, the situation had become too hot for comfort. So much so, the inner circle had to come out to openly say "we are completely united behind" so and so ...
That was a real give-away that something was not right. One doesn't do such a thing unless one has had very strong negative feedback that needed to be countered and expelled urgently.
Ironically, by taking such a quickie counter-action, one also in the same instance let the cat out of the bag.
Next, using the COVID-19 Pandemic as an excuse to further delay the already delayed and long overdue handing-over of power to the ownself hand-picked Crown Prince, is too obvious an indication that another succession plan has been developed behind the scenes.
Handng over the Kingdom to the Crown Prince only when he reaches 70 years old means that he cannot stay in the Kingship for more than one term; or at the most two terms. This indicates that the Crown Prince was not meant to be the new King, but a Eunuch Seat-Warmer only.
Therefore, by throwing in his towel into the ring of fire, it is clear that the Crown Prince has refused to be a Eunuch Seat-Warmer. He wants to be King!
Moral Of The Story
When you are not a Prince and you do not have a Crown, no matter what, you can't be a Crown Prince. You can only be the Clown in a circus or the Prince in the Darkness.
Conclusion
The real Crown Prince will appear in due course, when the time is ripe.
This latest development could be linked with the removal of the Empress Dowager. The Black Power must have become stronger and stronger, a forceful political force to be reckoned with.
Chinkies Singaporeans have better be prepared for hard times ahead.
SSO - 9 April 2021.
The President are directly elected in by the voting Singaporeans. Whereas Prime Minister are not directly elected. Currently, PAP are the elected government and can appoint the PM of their choices. It is the party affair, many of the Singaporeans may not be bothered with it. Why discuss such an important matters in the public. Many peoples maybe scratching their heads.
Despite all the talk about succession planning and how immaculately thought out, the tea invitation, the many cycles of interviews, the final selection, things still turn out 'chow tar' or burnt.
Man proposes, but God disposes. Keep in mind!
Are we sure the President is directly elected or just a 'Hobson's choice' offered to voters?
I am scratching my head.
Hahaha....
This is just the beginning of.........!
All the BEST-est!
Hahaha.....
If someone picks a cat and a dog for the people to elect as president, can the people say they elected the dog or cat as president?
I think yes. What do you think?
Yes, yes, the choice is yours. But who picked the cat and the dog as well is another mystery.
But both the cat and dog are someone's pet. Take it or leave it. Oops, you cannot even leave it.
To make things easier just disqualify one, then no need erection.
When the thinking and reasoning are so contrived...
Since when was there a real succession planning in any political party in the world?
At the back of someone's great mind, there is always a great choice, which boils down to no choice.
This no choice is the choice to ensure continuity of power within the power centre, within the party that exists for and at the pleasure of the Supreme Leader and the Number One Family of, for example, North Korea or Saudi Arabia, or Jordan, Russia, or China, or Japan, UK or USA.
Or Singapore, or Timbuktu?
Having a succession plan looks like making sure the power does not fall out of the hands of someone or some group of people wanting perpetual rule. Therein lies the problem.
It categorically excludes other capable people who may not agree with them or inside their circle, preventing talents from outside to rise up and taking over the reins, and just totally relying on the closely knit familiar you know who. It is what they call 'inbreeding' in human procreation terms. And it may be the reason why some regimes eventually fail.
Man can plan all they want. It is God that has the final say.
Since the beginning, God never has the final say. It is the Serpent that has the final say.
God is also not all-powerful. If he was omnipotent, he would have commanded the unquestioning obedience of Adam and Eve, and subdued the Serpent before it could create any havoc.
God is also not all-knowing. If he was omniscient, he would have known what the Serpent was going to do and therefore stopped it from doing what it did, ie influencing Eve to eat of the fruit from the tree of knowledge. He would not have created the Evil Serpent in the first place.
So, God started on the wrong premise, wrong assumptions and wrong footing. As a result, He became the actual loser right from the beginning. A loser of his own choice - a faulty choice.
So, if God can make such a big blunder, the man that he has created in his own image must be even more blunder-prone.
As such, all secession plans are just that, plans.
Plans are not reality.
Plans have never been carried out in perfection. No plans are perfect.
Plans are meant to be modified and altered under new extenuating circumstances.
No one plans to fail but everyone fails to plan in one way or another, in one aspect or many aspects, in one instance or many instances. In other words, all plans failed!
Therefore, it is best to stay in the Present, without thinking of the Past nor the Future. If you can do that continuously, you are Enlightened.
Or probably Kee Kiu olso step aside as he is too Xia suay saying cotton comes from sheep, maybe Ah Sham might take over but he black skin so cannot, or might be skekali Desmond Li take the baten ax seat warmer than later pass to Crown Prince it can be tat, let's not speculate cos there r still many things awaiting to happen by next erection..
Alamak..
White Horse is Kee Chiu
Black Horse is Lauland
Crazy Horse is Demond Li
GILAt horse is On Gee Gang
...let's see which Horse comes in 1st or may be all ka..booyah..
@ 1:51 pm:
"White Horse is Kee Chiu
Black Horse is Lauland
Crazy Horse is Demond Li
GILAt horse is On Gee Gang
...let's see which Horse comes in 1st or may be all ka..booyah.."
None of the above are of PM quality. They are just outstanding administrators. Not leaders. They are "Yes-men". Not "X-men".
The King purposefully selected such men so that his Prince can outshine them and control them easily.
I strongly believe that HSK has been ordered to relinquish his Finance Portfolio because he removed HC from Temasek because of the DBS-India fiasco.
As such, HSK not happy. So, he threw in his towel.
While his reasons for abandoning the position of Premiership of Singapore are not logical, yet his letter was so quickly accepted by the incumbent PM. This smells fishy.
By throwing in his towel and surrendered so abruptly, HSK has caused a leadership crisis. This is definitely not in the interests of Singapore, though he has struggled to say that his action was for the interests of Singapore.
How is a 60 year old too old to be PM when the present PM is coming close to 70 and still think of continuing indefinitely on the reign of power?
It takes many years to groom someone to take over as PM. How long more must Singapore wait for the next PM to be selected, groomed, prepared, and be ready for taking over?
Is it in the interests of Singaporeans to wait and wait, and yet wait again while indecisions and indecisiveness continue to champion for the days past and days ahead?
When Prince Philip was discharged from the hospital on 16 March, I predicted that he had not long to live.
Today, heads of state and prime ministers across the world, past and present, send tributes following the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99.
My next prediction is that the Queen would follow suit within one year. Just watch.
Or maybe the 'crown prince' cud be unseated & even can't survive in a erection, watever it is it doesn't spell good for this tiny island to by rule under a dynastic as wat even the same clan as Prof Har ward said b4.
Alamak why u cursed the queen. She is still young
Not to worry. The Brits can always sing 'God save the Queen' and she will live to a thousand years. Even well after the disappearance of the Great Empire.
Goldfish was already 59 during the last GE. That was just one year ago. Why is age the reason for his quitting now? Why not quit immediately before the last election, if his age is a factor. But stepping down then would be another questionable decision, being the designated seat warmer.
It is his poor showing during GE2020 that provided the push. The PAP cannot afford to have him standing in the next GE with little guarantee that he will perform better. He may even be voted out. He must have been under pressure, so quitting is a relieve for the load on his mind.
Of course all these are just speculation. We will never know the real reasons.
I vote for Little Boy Blue aka Cotton Chan aka teaboy at International conferences.
Cotton-Come-From-Sheep, Me Xia Shuay Chan, if become Pee Ayam, we all will be known as Xia-Shuay-poreans instead of Singaporeans.
That is why they have managed to convert so many naive and wide eyed natives into their faith. Believe and you will be saved is a big big lie. But sinners also want to go to heaven, no matter how heinous their crimes.
As the old man said, the Whites have already lost faith in their religion, with Churches converted into Bingo halls, while those people in the East have still not opened their eyes to reality.
I know that that particular faith is a short cut to wealth, since it is a no holds barred, no barrier to commitment of heinous crimes, and killings are all pardonable and designated 'collateral damage'. After that, it is still a path to Heaven.
But hoping for a short cut to heaven? That is a whole new ball game for the believers.
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