One party good for Singapore, two party no good says LKY
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Two-party system not good for Singapore, says Lee Kuan Yew04:46 AM Sep 15, 2011
SINGAPORE - The opposition should remain "competitive" in Singapore's political landscape but former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew doubts if the country will be able to sustain a two-party political system.
Speaking at a forum during the 7th anniversary celebrations of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy yesterday, Mr Lee felt a two-party system will not be good for Singapore.
"Amongst other reasons, I don't believe Singapore can produce two top class teams. We haven't got the talent to produce two top class teams," he said.
Mr Lee made these comments when responding to a forum participant's question on his vision for Singapore's future. In response, Mr Lee began by saying: "The question has got to be your vision, not my vision ... It's not for me to tell you what vision you should have."
Mr Lee, who was Prime Minister for more than three decades, said that he had "simpler problems" to tackle when he was in charge of the Government. "We are in the First World and many highly-educated people believe we must have more competition, more pressure on the government," he said.
"A generation that grows up in a period of affluence believes that we have arrived and as the saying goes the 'First World Parliament' must have a 'First World Opposition'.
"So the restlessness, whether that leads to better governance, I am not able to say. We will wait and see - how constructive the opposition can be, or will be."
Mr Lee addressed a broad range of topics during yesterday's 50-minute long dialogue. They included how the European debt crisis would evolve to addressing widening income gaps. He said Singapore has no plans to buy bonds from European countries facing a debt crisis, and felt Europe's monetary union will eventually break apart into two or three separate tiers because of economic differences among the member states.
'The solution is immigration'
Immigration, which was a talking point in Mr Lee's dialogue session with Nanyang Technological University students last week, surfaced again as a topic during the forum yesterday.
One of the participants asked Mr Lee how Singapore can do better in population policy now that the country is facing an ageing population after the stop-at-two children policy.
Mr Lee said the policy had "nothing to do with what's happened". He noted ageing populations are seen in developed countries where women are educated and "do not see their future just bearers of children".
"So the solution is immigration ... and as we age, and there are not enough young people to look after the old, then maybe the population will be receptive to taking in more immigrants," Mr Lee said, and added Singapore could add about 20,000 to 25,000 immigrants annually to grow the population.
Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, then asked Mr Lee what can be done for Singaporeans to understand better the importance of immigration.
Mr Lee replied: "I think we have explained it but they just don't want to see so many foreigners in their midst." The turning point for Singaporeans to understand the importance of immigrants, he felt, would be when they realise the immigrants are needed desperately and "are hurt by objecting to immigrants coming to Singapore".
Another forum participant asked Mr Lee if Singapore's national identity is strong enough to absorb the immigrants. Mr Lee replied that Singaporeans do not accept the need for immigrants because some immigrants do not speak English. "I don't think they (the immigrants) can learn English in their lifetime enough to become Singaporeans. We have to wait for that to happen in the next generation," he added. -
More garbage rants from the old anglophile banana.
He is quite active these days, babbling his rubbish propaganda every week.
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well, he thought that forcing his son to marry an ugly man was also good
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Mr Lee replied that Singaporeans do not accept the need for immigrants because some immigrants do not speak English. "I don't think they (the immigrants) can learn English in their lifetime enough to become Singaporeans.
How many people in Singapore really knows how to speak english?
Wake up lah, old banana. Are you in your dream world again?
Go and mix more with the common folk in Singapore, don't always rot in your elite circles and you will see that a huge majority of people still doesn't know english, you old banana.
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One of the participants asked Mr Lee how Singapore can do better in population policy now that the country is facing an ageing population after the stop-at-two children policy.
Mr Lee said the policy had "nothing to do with what's happened".Still refusing to admit the errors of your garbage policies.
You are still stubborn, don't want to face up to your cock ups Lee Kuan Yew. You are worthless, useless and a total failure in social policies. Your pet schemes all end up as rubbish.
Lee Kuan Yew why you like to criticise the muslims in Singapore? Peranakan culture is made up of malay elements also. Why you go and criticise?
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"Amongst other reasons, I don't believe Singapore can produce two top class teams. We haven't got the talent to produce two top class teams," he said.
PAP is top class team? Give me a break lah Lee Kuan Yew.
PAP so top class, no need so many people migrate away to other countries already loh, you banana. Don't be so shameless as to self praise lah Lee Kuan Yew. Old banana, pui.
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Mr Lee made these comments when responding to a forum participant's question on his vision for Singapore's future. In response, Mr Lee began by saying: "The question has got to be your vision, not my vision ... It's not for me to tell you what vision you should have."
My vision? My vision of Singapore is to thoroughly de-westernise, de-anglicise the society after you are dead.
Is that your vision Lee Kuan Yew? That is my vision.
I hope our two visions can meet.
English as working language? I don't totally exterminate it from the face of this island, you lucky already.
Seriously Lee Kuan Yew, how many of your rubbish policies can really last after you are dead?
Once the person dies, his pet rubbish schemes will mostly all be destroyed.
You can talk now about your garbage policies when you are still alive. Once you die, the story will be different. Everything changes.
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Broken record.
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"Political and economic realities led us to choose English as our working language." - 6 Sep
"I don't think they (the immigrants) can learn English in their lifetime enough to become Singaporeans. We have to wait for that to happen in the next generation," - 11 Sep
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Originally posted by Siliconchip:
Broken record.
He can talk now. He is still not dead.
But when the times comes, it will come.
Then things will change. And all of his rubbish talk now will all be useless.
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even today's Singaporeans can't speak English....
canteen = cantingMRT = M MA T
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Originally posted by Dalforce 25:
He can talk now. He is still not dead.
But when the times comes, it will come.
Then things will change. And all of his rubbish talk now will all be useless.
troll
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Originally posted by sinicker:
even today's Singaporeans can't speak English....
canteen = cantingMRT = M MA T
English is afterall in the final analysis a completely alien tongue for the people in Singapore.
That is why it must be destroyed.
DUSHANBE, July 23 (RIA Novosti) - Tajikistan's president has proposed banning the Russian language from being used in public institutions and official documents, a move he said would promote the development of Tajik and bolster patriotism in the country.
"The dignity of a nation is determined, above all, by how people preserve and respect their language," Emomali Rakhmon said in a televised address late on Wednesday.
http://tajikam.com/forum/index.php?topic=5302.0
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Belling the Cat.
I think they are all huddled together, to decide who should tell him its time to go.
"You, lah." "No, you go." "You eldest, you go." "You son, you go." "I cannot, my father what." "He like you, you tell nicely lah" "Do wan, I pity him." "Never mind, lah just wait, little more only" "Buay tahan, his mouth." "He should go." "You go tell him." " mnpfff..."
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there are pros and cons.
look at US. see how the republicans make things difficult for obama just because he is a democrat? how many people really put country before party?
人在江湖身�由己。
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Everything by Lee Kuan Yew is a lie.
I am sick of all his fucking lies.
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i enjoyed reading George Orwell's novel Animal Farm....there was a famous quote...
"We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples."
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one corpse in a coffin is good, two in one is bad. that's for sure