In the run up to the National Day Parade 2014, Dr Tan Cheng
Bock has once again raised the issue that he was not invited. On his Facebook page, Dr Tan feinted humility by claiming that a former grassroots leader had
asked him about his attendance at the parade and how he “magnanimously” responded
that he believed a policy change has excluded some people including himself. This
is very similar to how he also “magnanimously” informed Singaporeans that he
was “un-invited” to the annual Chinese New Year Garden Party at the Istana.
For a presidential hopeful, I am rather surprised that Dr
Tan does not know how ridiculous his comments about being no longer invited sound.
To me, how Dr Tan Cheng Bock is being treated by his former party, is really no
different from how any company would treat a former trusted employee. The
moment a former employee sets-up another company to compete with them, or joins
their direct competitor, the former employee automatically forfeits any
goodwill to be invited to future company events.
If logical Singaporeans can accept this is how a private
sector company would treat a former employee that “turns on them”, I wonder why
the same logical Singaporean cannot seem to accept it when the government
treats a former MP the same way.
So, Dr Tan Cheng Bock, while I do have great respect for
you, I have serious doubt when you continue to harp about being slighted when
you are no longer given special treatment as a former member of the People’s
Action Party (PAP). Your own actions have brought this upon yourself. So stop trying
to push the blame to your former friends and colleague. The sympathy card will
not work on thinking Singaporeans. In
fact, your act of turning on your former colleagues in government does, in my
opinion, allude to you having a questionable character.
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