The public service must change its fundamental mindset if it wants to up its game. The Population White Paper shows that the consultative approach fell flat on its face, and the feedback was tainted, skewed, rendered useless. The Paper shows how out of touch public servants are, how abstract and removed from reality they have become.

The root of the problem is that the political master (the PAP) has, the over years, acquired the habit of only tuning in to voices and opinion that are pleasing to its ears, and so the sycophants only tell it what it wants to hear. How the voice of the silent majority can be accurately heard by an Emperor who wears no clothes and whose subjects refuse to point out the obvious, is beyond me.

The worst thing about Teo Ho Pin’s allegations and insinuations about WP is that they are designed to mislead the unsuspecting public, based on the fact that the layman cannot possibly know the full mechanics behind Town Council management, nor all the administrative and technical hassles Opposition TCs have to contend with because of the roadblocks PAP puts in their way.

The issue of unfair political games played by the PAP to either disadvantage the opposition or to exploit the emotions of residents has not been sufficiently addressed.

The process of giving the masses a political education, strengthening our public institutions and keeping them free from political bias, and ensuring that corruption and malfeasance are forever kept out of the system must start today.

Written by Ng E-Jay 05 May 2013 Malaysia goes to the polls today, a historic milestone in its history. As Singaporeans, let us stand in solidarity with our Malaysian brothers and sisters, and bid them to usher in a new era of change and democracy to Malaysia. It is my hope that justice and fairness will prevail.