WP's Jamus Lim won the hearts of viewers last night for his stellar performance during the online debate. What do you think about Jamus's concluding statement that the WP are not denying PAP a mandate but a blank cheque?

To place things in a lighter perspective, I'd vision the ruling party as the Sun while the opposition party as Rain. And the people of Singapore as plants. In order for plants to grow and flower, you need both Sun and Rain. Too much of either and the plants will die (okay, kindda exaggerating here, but I think I made my point).

I do agree on the end goal which PAP aims to achieve i.e. create new jobs, lower costs etc. However, just like cooking an egg, there are tons of different methods one can do to achieve the outcome and that is where the voice of opposition comes in - to ensure that every method is well-thought through (during parliamentary debates), the pros and cons, the trade-offs. If a chef always cooks a sunny-side Up, he may never discover scrambled eggs.

It is indeed true that PAP will highly get the mandate (purely based on of seats contested), that being said, I do hope to see some opposition in there as well. Using the example of the cook, even though there are 90 cooks that only know how to cook a Sunny-side Up, all you need is 1 cook to demonstrate how to cook a scrambled egg for the current cooks to think.​​​

Have you wondered why despite producing one of the brightest students in the world , we seldom have Singaporean being named as renowned scientists, entrepreneurs, architects or other professional jobs in the global scene?

The key word is "groupthink". Nobody will challenge a certain idea or policy because they desire harmony and conformity. This results in dysfunctional decisions being made. In the long term, even the brightest guy will lose the creativity and passion to chase after it's own beliefs.

Just imagine if big tech companies such as Apple , Facebook , Amazon adopt "groupthink", can they continue to innovate and outperform their competitors? In a company setting, we have people contesting ideas of a proposal. It is totally conducive & healthy and we can get the best consensus to solve a problem.

I support Jamus that we should not give a "blank cheque" to a ruling party, it will do more harm than good as they could become more complacent if left unchallenged.