The People’s Action Party (PAP) has made character assassination its chief campaign strategy. Again. The “man” in this instance is obvious – it is Png Eng Huat, the Workers’ Party candidate in Hougang. I see that today’s mainstream Straits Times has whipped itself up into a suitably loyal frenzy by using the phrase “allegations of dishonesty” in one of its headlines.
Sometimes, I wonder whether the PAP is aware how they damage their own brand by such strategies. Shrill personal attacks over nothing only remind voters how petty and perhaps vindictive PAP leaders are, from Lee Kuan Yew on down. Full story
