The Singapore National Pledge

[yeokiwi]

I think race and religion will always be an issue and considering our geographic location, it would be foolhardy to assume otherwise.

Its a slow burning smouldering fire that requires very little to ignite given the correct and sufficiently motivated individual.

I do not buy the argument that the GRC favours the PAP. If the opposition does not measure up in the past, they only have themselves to blame. In this election, all GRCs except one were contested. And given that the WP has make a breakthrough in winning a GRC, its no longer an excuse to say that its anti-opposition.

I would however like to see a cap of max 5 MPs per GRC. 4 seems to be an ideal figure to me.

In the long term, I think GRC does have a positive effect of creating multi-racial parties rather than parties that only compose of a single race. WP used to be a pure chinese party but, partially due to a need to compete in GRCs, we can see that they have recruited more and more of the minority races. Of course, nowadays, racial difference has thinned but I suppose given a choice, some party leaders may choose to be more racial bias if GRC requirement is not necessary.

However, 3 or 4 members GRC is good enough. 5 and 6 members GRC are simply too much.