Parliament should not deteriorate into a place for political play where MPs take advantage of the parliamentary immunity that they enjoy to make baseless allegations.
One would expect all MPs to do their homework before they come to Parliament to speak and not be frivolous in speech.
If a PAP MP were to make statements in Parliament of taxi drivers and hawkers under declaring their incomes, or express a baseless suspicion without doing any research, all hell will break loose on social media and the PAP MPs will have to apologise and pay a price as well.
But not so for WP MPs.
In a facebook post, Law Minister Shanmugam wrote of the exchange he had with Ms Sylvia Lim of WP.
He also wrote:
"When confronted robustly- the trolls will come in with a spin - oh you see, here is the bullying again. For these spinners, an opposition MP can make serious allegations - but should not be confronted with facts.
Why? Because they cannot answer or explain what they said.
In rallies - very loud. But in #Parliament- can’t answer."
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One would expect all MPs to do their homework before they come to Parliament to speak and not be frivolous in speech.
If a PAP MP were to make statements in Parliament of taxi drivers and hawkers under declaring their incomes, or express a baseless suspicion without doing any research, all hell will break loose on social media and the PAP MPs will have to apologise and pay a price as well.
But not so for WP MPs.
In a facebook post, Law Minister Shanmugam wrote of the exchange he had with Ms Sylvia Lim of WP.
He also wrote:
"When confronted robustly- the trolls will come in with a spin - oh you see, here is the bullying again. For these spinners, an opposition MP can make serious allegations - but should not be confronted with facts.
Why? Because they cannot answer or explain what they said.
In rallies - very loud. But in #Parliament- can’t answer."
https://www.facebook.com/
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