We can all work together: George Yeo on S'pore politics

• QX179R

  25 Mar 12, 22:29

  Last year's general election which saw the ruling People's Action Party's (PAP) vote share slip to 60.1 per cent, showed that many had "lost faith in the government", said former Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo.
  
  Speaking at a farewell dinner at Punggol Community Club on Saturday, Yeo urged politicans from both the ruling and opposition parties to work together with people's interest at heart and "link the hearts together, broaden our minds," reported the Sunday Times.
  
  Yeo added that the vote share showed that many had "lost faith in the government" and "that is not a good thing".
  
  "When a country is divided, many problems will arise," Yeo said. He pointed out that even though former Aljunied grassroots leader Dr Ang Yong Guan crossed over to opposition Singapore Democratic Party last year, Yeo stressed that "we can all work together," the same paper reported.
  
  "This is an effort everyone must pool together - government, people, all political parties," he told attendees at the dinner.
  
  Yeo officially relinquished his role as grassroots advisor and branch chairman to Aljunied GRC on 1 January this year and had serve 23 years in the ward. He was replaced by veteran grassroots leader Anthony Loh, 73.

   

  -- Yahoo!

• charlize

  25 Mar 12, 22:40

  Wah, he also not very happy with the people at the top ah? 

• Dalforce 1941

  25 Mar 12, 22:43

  Don't anyhow shoot lawyer's letter, make up cock and bull stories about marxist conspiracies, use ISD to suppress dissent, censor media, make threats to voters, swarm people with state propaganda, I tolong tolong already.

• charlize

  25 Mar 12, 22:59

  Think GY is quite a nice guy.

   

  I think if he was not part of the estab, he would help singaporeans a lot.

• Dalforce 1941

  25 Mar 12, 23:03

  But he supported the Casinos.

   

  George Yeo and His True Legacy for Singapore

  Now that George Yeo is quitting politics, many people are saying that this is such a pity for Singapore's foreign affairs. Personally I am somewhat hazy about what George Yeo actually achieved in this area, but perhaps that's just because Singapore's foreign affairs is not an area to which I've paid that much attention.
  
  Instead I will remember George Yeo as the minister who brought the casinos to Singapore. Yes, in case you've forgotten, George was the guy who first proposed the idea and pushed for it. Even within the PAP, there was plenty of debate and resistance about the casino proposal (to such an extent that another ex-minister, Lim Boon Heng, recently broke down in tears when he revisited those memories). But in the end George prevailed. 
  
  (George Yeo was also the man who famously said, "But we are building integrated resorts, not casinos". I found this statement very annoying, not merely because of its inherent dishonesty, but because it also assumed that Singaporeans were so stupid that they would fall for it. However, let's not digress.)
  
  George Yeo's true legacy for Singapore is the casinos, for they will continue to exert an influence and impact on our society long after George himself is dead and gone. Billion-dollar infrastructure projects backed by serious international investors will not just fold up and expire tomorrow - once they are here, they are here to stay...

  ...My concern about the casinos is that they will breed a lot of crime in Singapore.

  As long-time readers of this blog know, I began my legal career as a DPP, working frequently with the police as well as with CPIB and the Central Narcotics Bureau. Through my work experience, I have developed an intuitive sense of the kinds of environments and conditions under which crime, like magic, will spontaneously appear and flourish.

   

  Casinos strike me as a rich, natural breeding ground for many types of crimes. Casinos are to criminals what garbage dumps are to rats, or shit is to houseflies. Specifically, a casino environment is supportive of the following species of criminal offences - theft, robbery, extortion, cheating, drug trafficking, consumption of illegal drugs, illegal moneylending, money laundering, vice activities, human trafficking and other immigration-related offences...

   

  http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/2011/05/george-yeo-and-his-true-legacy-for.html

   

   

• charlize

  25 Mar 12, 23:16

  Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:

  But he supported the Casinos.

   

  George Yeo and His True Legacy for Singapore

  Now that George Yeo is quitting politics, many people are saying that this is such a pity for Singapore's foreign affairs. Personally I am somewhat hazy about what George Yeo actually achieved in this area, but perhaps that's just because Singapore's foreign affairs is not an area to which I've paid that much attention.
  
  Instead I will remember George Yeo as the minister who brought the casinos to Singapore. Yes, in case you've forgotten, George was the guy who first proposed the idea and pushed for it. Even within the PAP, there was plenty of debate and resistance about the casino proposal (to such an extent that another ex-minister, Lim Boon Heng, recently broke down in tears when he revisited those memories). But in the end George prevailed. 
  
  (George Yeo was also the man who famously said, "But we are building integrated resorts, not casinos". I found this statement very annoying, not merely because of its inherent dishonesty, but because it also assumed that Singaporeans were so stupid that they would fall for it. However, let's not digress.)
  
  George Yeo's true legacy for Singapore is the casinos, for they will continue to exert an influence and impact on our society long after George himself is dead and gone. Billion-dollar infrastructure projects backed by serious international investors will not just fold up and expire tomorrow - once they are here, they are here to stay...

  ...My concern about the casinos is that they will breed a lot of crime in Singapore.

  As long-time readers of this blog know, I began my legal career as a DPP, working frequently with the police as well as with CPIB and the Central Narcotics Bureau. Through my work experience, I have developed an intuitive sense of the kinds of environments and conditions under which crime, like magic, will spontaneously appear and flourish.

   

  Casinos strike me as a rich, natural breeding ground for many types of crimes. Casinos are to criminals what garbage dumps are to rats, or shit is to houseflies. Specifically, a casino environment is supportive of the following species of criminal offences - theft, robbery, extortion, cheating, drug trafficking, consumption of illegal drugs, illegal moneylending, money laundering, vice activities, human trafficking and other immigration-related offences...

   

  http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/2011/05/george-yeo-and-his-true-legacy-for.html

   

• charlize

  26 Mar 12, 21:42

  You think he will come back into politics?

• charlize

  28 Mar 12, 19:49

  What's he doing now btw ?