The Tiger and the Trojan Horse by Dennis Bloodworth
John Drysdale was more scholarly in his presentation in his magnum opus Singapore:Struggle for Success whereas Dennis Bloodworth was more down- to- earth in portraying the clandestine conspiracy of the communist underground and United Front and the internecine srtruggle between the PAP leadership headed by Lee Kuan Yew and the Communist United Front (CUF) led by Lim Chin Siong for supremacy in achieving political power. It is really amazing how Bloodworth could have access to so secretive and revealing of the communist underground and CUF blueprint for the capture of the PAP moderate leadership and the political power of establishing a communist government. Bloodworth was able to narrate it in such an animated and intimated form as if vicariously and tinged with a tad of humour and cynicism here and there which gives the reader a sense of mystique in imbibing it.
Lee Hsien Loong was still sucking his mother's milk when all this was happening. He and his mercenary cohorts will simply melt into oblivion if face with such a gargantuan communist avalanche. Civil servants like us were in the front line fighting the communists and ambitious politicians like Lee Kuan Yew and his and his gallant cavaliers were just no match for Lim Chin Siong who commanded the Chinese mass and would have been likely to be gobbled by Lim and his communist combatants. It was a very courageous saviour Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock who ordered a devastating swoop with Special Branch as his hatchet man on the communist revolutionaries that paved the way for Lee Kuan Yew to redeem his ambition. Dr. Toh Chin Chye and Dr. Goh Keng Swee were quick to acknowledge the great favour that Lim Yew Hock had so nobly given them but Lee Kuan Yew was typical in his reluctance and may be still in a daze. Lee Kuan Yew was therefore able to inherit Lim Chin Siong mass base and went on to make a complete sweep of the general election in 1959 which propelled him to the post of prime minister.
For the sacrifices that civil servants like us made through the baptism of fire to make it possible for mercenary politicians like Lee Hsien Loong and his greedy cohorts to wallow in luxuries of their high office we were rewarded with a poverty-level pension. When the cost of living began to spike from time to time our pensions remained stagnant. I approached Lee Hsien Loong to consider a raise in our pensions so that it will ease our burden of living on a starvation subsistence level. You will never believe the kind of charitable response that was hurled at us. "You have served your purpose. What you get is enough. We are waiting for you to die" The minister who said it was Dr. Richard Hu who was then the Finance Minister to the President and Vice-President of the Pensioners' Association who saw him to raise our pensions. But Lee Hsien Loong endorsed it tacitly. You think they are human to make such callous remarks? And they were pocketing millions of people's money to enrich themselves and wallow in luxuries.
Lee Hsien Loong gives the impression that he is generous and compassionate in giving subsidies to the people ostensibly to lighten their burden during the Covid 19 and the considerable rise in the cost of living. What he is actually paying the people is the people's money like they are pocketing millions of people's money. Will there be a salvation in the foreseeable future? You have an Opposition leader who is a joker and with his antics you think he will be able to cause an upset to the PAP? The status quo will stay for a considerable time. And the people may need the blessing of God.
posted by Singapore Recalcitrant @ 15:10
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