So, Singapore's Workers' Party launched its new manifesto yesterday and it's not only nothing we haven't seen yet, but a collection of mostly questionable ideas, including some of the worst it presented during the past term, which I thought would take the back seat now.
As it turns out WP is quite serious about them, while other topics are glaringly absent, despite some of them being quite existential to Singapore.
This is quite bizarre for a party allegedly appealing to the youth these days.
5 years ago WP won Sengkang by a fluke, thanks to the surprise that Jamus Lim was on national TV just days before the vote. By now the novelty must have worn off, however, and it's likely that voters will look at what their MPs did and what they support for the future.
And WP's insistence on its controversial proposals begs a question: is the party reading Singaporeans right? Will they really support it not for not being PAP but for what it thinks should be done?
I have serious doubts about that, as I explain below.
