Curious lunch-goers watched the blizzard of red-and-white clothing and other swag swarming around the ballroom. Tan compared the Singaporeans who have had to sell their homes to afford medical care with the “scholars, generals and intellectuals” whom citizens have trusted “to do the right thing”. Try our content and join if you would like more. Don’t worry if you aren’t ready to commit just yet. Indeed, there appears to be less and less alignment between the interests of the (fractured) Lee family, the party, and the electorate. For the first time in over 30 years, one of the PAP’s own has broken off to form a new party. Have you not been to Jewel?”. Among other things, Tan is trying to cultivate successors, partly to dampen the importance of his personal brand to the party, and. A challenge too far for Lee, this led to a seven-year chill in their relationship, which ended in 2006 when Tan’s rendition of My Way, reworded for the Singapore MP, brought a smile to Lee’s face. One, many believe, where individual responsibility means “take care of myself”. Let Us All Be Considerate This Hungry Ghost Festival, Injured Man Loses Bicycle Wheel In Accident, Shocked To Find It Intact The Next Day, Man Who Set Fire at Towner Rd Seems Mentally Unstable, Gave Death…, Silver Mazda Evading Police Crashes into MRT Station,…, Thum Ping Tjin Questioned by Police, Says that…. He was also a back bencher on the PAP’s Central Executive Committee (the Singapore’s highest decision making body) for nine years from 1987 to 1996. In 2012 he was one of two winners of the Association of Women for Action and Research’s Alamak! And with his trademark accusation that the PAP is no longer what it once was, it remains unclear: is Tan offering a vision of Singapore’s future or a return to its past? The daughter of a premier makeup artist and the sister of a United States District Attorney, Michele Lee was born Michele Lee Dusick on June 24, 1942 in Los Angeles, California. It was not too long ago that Singaporeans might have cloaked their faces when confronted by cameras at an opposition event; here a line quickly formed at a photo booth offering snaps by the PSP logo. Now that you're here, we have a favour to ask... Join our movement for a better Southeast Asia, One might spot some uniquely Singaporean bellwethers. Tan batted away all questions on policy and electoral tactics. No discussion of electoral teams and strategies (understandable) and no granular discussion of policies (less so). In what has come to be regarded as a horror show by the irrepressibly “woke” students there, in 2018 Tan spoke at Yale-NUS and appeared somewhat out of touch with youth concerns, including employment and the freedom to love. Yet journalists were again disappointed. Every cent of your membership fee goes to supporting our research, journalism, and community organisation activities. with Singapore’s other opposition parties so they can form a more cohesive, effective front against the PAP. However, both Poa and her husband resigned before the 2011 general elections, citing unresolvable differences of opinion with the leaders of the Reform Party.