Monday, February 13, 2012

饶欣龙事件

谨新明日报二月十二日对饶欣龙事件的报导,本人觉得有必要回应。

虽然本人转载了黄亦杰的文章,但本人并没有挑战饶欣龙议员辞职的意思。本人只是觉得饶欣龙和工人党对此事件的处理不当,导致原本只牵涉饶欣龙一人的感情缺失的事演变成中间选民对反对党阵营再次失去信心。

1991年民主党和工人党虽然得到重大突破赢得四个席位,但后因民主党党争致使中间选民对反对阵营失去信心,而导致反对党二十年来都无法再次有所突破。在2011年的大选里,反对党阵营好不容易再次取得中间选民的信任,不只把六名工人党议员送进国会,大体上其他的反对党的得票率也有跳跃式的进步。但是这次饶欣龙事件,却可能使反对阵营又再次遭遇打击,被打回原型了。这是非常遗憾的事。

这次事件的重点再也不是饶欣龙是否有感情缺失了。本人相信许多人对饶欣龙到底有没有情感越轨,大家心里早都有了定夺。最重要的是,工人党以第一世界国会为战旗、透明和问责为目标、魏征的大义为道德勇气走入国会,但是当自己的议员被质疑有道德缺失时,竟然一声不吭。这种沉默的处理方法,难免令中间选民对其政治架势的质疑。轻言魏征的大义,义无反顾地进死谏,塑造敢言不畏强权的幻觉,但是到了需要大义灭亲的时候,竟然鸦雀无声。这是令人非常失望的。工人党连承认过失,坦诚道歉,乞求原谅的道德勇气都没有,怎么能轻言魏征的大义呢?以此的鸵鸟政策来对应危机,工人党怎么能说服中间选民他们真的能成为世界一级的政党呢?

工人党目前是反对党阵营的龙头老大,如果中间选民对它都失去信心的话,他们又如何会对其他反对党有信心呢?作为反对党阵营楷模的工人党,应该有面对自己议员犯错的勇气。犯错并不可怕,人非圣贤,有道德瑕疵也是人之常情的。只不过我们不能容忍的是一个政党为了政治利益而包庇严重缺失。工人党让饶欣龙在没有任何具体交代的情况下辞去中委,这是非常不透明的做法。这与工人党一至提倡办事要有透明度相左。

工人党如此处理事件的手法是让人非常失望的,相比之下,饶欣龙辞不辞掉议员之职位已经并不太重要了。我恳请工人党为了真正建设第一世界的政治体系,应该拿出道德勇气来,把事情说清楚。如果饶欣龙真有感情缺失,就应该认错,对辜负了选民的支持道歉,并且乞求原谅。本人倒觉得这比辞去议员一席更为重要。

吴明盛

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

why should Yaw apologize?

it was not a criminal act.

it is perhaps immoral but the law is clear on that... it is not criminal.

it affects his family and the other family (if rumor is true)

it is a personal matter.

why should Yaw make it a public matter?

no public funds are involved.

GMS you are talking cock. just jealous of wp 's success.

Anonymous said...

I see the whole issue is overly reacted. I trust WP know what is in their card. Let them to their work properly and less distraction. They are important in representing Singaporeans on more urgent matter, we already witnessed PAP sytems collapsing - from the home team to our legal systems. What's more, MOE is also seen as flawed by many CEO in Singapore. This is a very crucial time for Singaporean to unit and bring PAP to task for all its failed policies and regulations.

As such, I don't see WP internal problem has anything to do with greater problems Singaporeans faced.

Anonymous said...

8.03am
Your comments sound reasonable except
"GMS you are talking cock. just jealous of wp 's success."
Then your entire comments is worthless.

market2garden said...

终究WP依照社会观感做了明智的决定,而且在政德政风方面树立了榜样,这样子的“牺牲”把道德高度连成一线:
魏征 - 问政论政的态度。
WP式的政治薪金(由下而上)建议 - 民众与政治人物的关系。
饶的驱逐出党 - 政治人物的公德与私德标准。

非WP的在野阵营有难了。

Anonymous said...

I disagree with people's comment that I am wrong to say that gms is talking cock.

he is adding fuel to the fire and created unreasonable expectation of the public on an mp.

he should be asking himself if he was not motivated by jealousy.

Anonymous said...

Mr Goh,

With the expulsion of Mr Yaw Shin Leong from Party Membership.

By-election will be conducted.

I personally feel that Mr Goh should rejoin the Worker's Party for this election.

Because expulsion of young member aged 35, may have created a trust crisis on voting on another WP member around his age for the by-election.

Worker's Party should nominate an slightly older member as an 'safe hand' and 'old hand' 老手 for the by-election of Hougang SMC.

By track record, I felt Mr Goh you are the best choice to stand for Worker's Party..

I really hope it will happen..

Jeremy Ng

Admin said...

I feel that WP owes Eric Tan an opportunity to get into parliament.

Eric Tan was one of the Top 100 bankers in Asia and he is a steady hand. Personally I feel that WP should get him back to stand in Hougang.

Goh Meng Seng

Anonymous said...

yeah right GMS... your opinion about eric tan joining the election expose your own elitist view.

what is the purpose of getting eric tan in ?

what does he intend to do?

Admin said...

Nothing about being elitist, but expectation of voters had risen.

Chen Shao Mao is popular and created the wow effect basically because of his "elitist credential". That's a fact we cannot deny.

Furthermore, Eric Tan is not just any other "elite" you get from the streets. He has committed his time, effort and money in political work for the past 10 years or even more, helping Chia Shi Teck as election agent in the 90s.

Anonymous said...

admin,

you contradicted your earlier comments about scholars such as Chen SM and Nsp candidates.

you said scholars that were not exposed by the public only have a 30-40 percent score.

anyway, Nicole S is not a scholar but she wows too.

I would love to think past efforts matter but in the bigger picture, what makes you think eric tan can hit it out on pap policies than a new guy.

for one, he came off as really petty with the way he left wp.

Anonymous said...

admin,

I should be so harsh and never intended to...

you did great in the last GE.

just that there wasn't enough information to plan before time. how do we know there are so many pap supporters in the old generation.

I thank you once again for the ge effort.

Anonymous said...

GMS, a lot of young peoples urging
Nicole Seah to contest in HG by-election. What is your view about Nicole Seah if she join WP ?

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