Low Thia Khiang: Principled or self-serving?

So, in 2011, to register his strong opposition to the NCMP scheme, Mr Low Thia Khiang declared he would resign if forced by his party - Workers' Party of which he is the leader - to take up a NCMP seat.

But in 2016, he declared it his DUTY as the leader of Workers' Party to nominate the next best volunteer when the elected NCMP was unable to take up the seat.

What do you make of that?

A man so strongly opposed to the NCMP scheme that he would rather resign than take it up himself, but he also considered it his duty as the leader of WP to nominate people to fill the NCMP seat.

Principled or self-serving?

The answer is very obvious.

"In light of the Government’s proposal to increase the number of NCMPs (from nine to 12) and for them to have the same voting rights as elected MPs, the WP should not permit its members to accept NCMP seats when offered in future...... It will also make the WP’s objection to the NCMP scheme principled and not self-serving." - Associate Professor Eugene Tan, SMU

See also: 

https://www.facebook.com/notes/singapore-matters/say-what-you-mean-do-what-you-say/935590879860639