[GE2025] Sembawang GRC

[spunkbrat]

Think of oppo as your vehicle commander, when you drive and sleep veer off course, you get a slap on your lazy face

 

[Darth_Yang]

SINGAPORE: A co-driver with one hand on the steering wheel and one foot on the pedal makes for a dangerous ride, but if the car crashes, it is the main driver who will be made to bear the responsibility, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Wednesday (Apr 30).

Speaking at a rally for Sembawang SMC, Mr Ong brought up an analogy from the 2011 General Election, when the opposition was seeking to make inroads into parliament.

Back then, the presence of the opposition was labelled as a co-driver sitting next to the main driver - the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) - whose job was to “slap his head” when the main driver falls asleep, explained Mr Ong.

“I must say, by and large, I do not disagree with that analogy and that there is a role for the opposition. That GE, the opposition won Aljunied GRC. But then when the opposition presence grows and expands to another GRC, that co-driver becomes more than a co-driver. He becomes also a backseat driver,” he said.

That person would start instructing the main driver on what to do and what route to take, but ultimately the driver can still make the call. “You are still in charge, but you just take in the ideas and process it,” said Mr Ong.

“But if after this GE, the PAP loses another three, four GRCs, then I think likely the co-driver will have one hand on the steering wheel and say ‘I also want to drive’. If he’s bold enough, he says, ‘My one leg also go over. You step the accelerator, I step the brake. We drive together’,” he said.

“It will then become very dangerous. We may be at risk of crashing.”

And if the car crashes, “the PAP driver” will have to bear the responsibility as the co-driver will claim to be just that – a co-driver.

“I fear and I worry this is the direction that we are heading towards,” said Mr Ong, who is anchoring the ruling party's Sembawang GRC slate.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-ong-ye-kung-sembawang-grc-pap-opposition-5099891

I f care my backseat drivers and f my co drivers cos I'm a confident safe driver...

Anyone come on the car .. they become quiet passengers cos they see how I drive also XIN Fu kou fu...

Just dun f care them !

 

[Sad Panda]

Then become Dict Actor country .Chyna ,Russia ,Iran .Syria are.The ELB had the final say, by the power given by Parliement .It cannot gives itself degraded or downgraded to abolish election.As two ministers said ,ELB are completely neutral.

just go into Dynasty mode lor, not like knn our freedom index very impressive till can claim its a democracy anyway

 

[fs_lim]

No iron to face competing ideas and challenges from outside the ivory tower then resign loh. Resign no need vote from the people.

 

[terada86]

LTK once said if your driver fall asleep and drove off course, u slap him in the face to wake him up

 

[CanIsayNo]

when they realise there's a risk of losing, their strategy is to resort to fear mongering.. the whole party is echoing one another lol. like how they all use the same humble background story

 

[askxyz]

This is democracy. If they lose few grc, it is a good evidence they have lost their way.

if pap no lose a few more grc means sinkies lost their way ?

 

[lbcben]

if pap good, steady, and reliable, why SCARE

 

[Toonsy92]

So funny analogy.

if crash, co-driver also die.. you go heaven argue whose responsibility lor.

 

[askxyz]

LTK once said if your driver fall asleep and drove off course, u slap him in the face to wake him up

long journey ride need swap driver one.

 

[crunsik]

Desperate man with him

 

[kimsix]

@oyk are you tulan that lw chose to put gky as the face of covid success?

now every day, our media put gky up the pedestal

yet you are the one who took the heat for your meh-meh pak.

it is your aggressive move that allowed sinkapore to move forward in covid.

 

[_eMuu_]

Use IT terms better. PAP is like the engineers pushing out codes. Opposition is the QA. Testing the codes, make sure no error before going live.

 

[skylink67]

With only 60+% votes, they expect landslide victory like the old days? They should take a hard look at themselves on what they have done.

 

[Okeirkkire]

isnt that what LKY predicted?

Tat the funny part...ppl respect lky vision...but he predict downfall of PAP suddenly PAP ppl do not believe his vision

 

[steven jialat]

Ask him got balls stand in Aljunied and win back lor

 

[ridinglow]

This guy nvr see car rally b4.. Co driver role is as important as the driver... taking a way the co driver.. u think the driver can navigate? Ownself anyhow driver to holland?

 

[Tayliatorhard]

tia gong son of punggol has 2 cars

Yes crash 1 nvm, his house have 2.

Wassup hamsters, keep the wheels spinning.

 

[silent_espy]

This fella talk so much, he's the arrow king. Wasn't he the fella who arrowed his future boss during covid to answer questions? Who he gonna arrow to be the driver?

 

[Visor9999]

Pass 1 or 2 minister positions to opposition. They need to prepare for the future, problem solved