On May 14th, however, MM announced that he was resigning at last from the cabinet. For any other politician of his age, that would be that, a statesman’s final flourish. The tame mainstream Singapore media treated the event as such.
Don’t believe a word of it. For a start, Mr Lee will retain the parliamentary seat that he won, uncontested, in the general election on May 7th. He will surely continue speechifying from the backbenches, as he did in the previous parliament, on almost every topic under the sun. He will intervene in public debates and write more books, all in his quest to keep Singapore on the straight and narrow. Full story
