Sir, with all due respect...

WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!!

"... her (Tin Pei Ling) experience helping her parents in their family-run coffee shop showed "she knows what it is to be poor and to work hard"." 

~ Lee Hsien Loong, 5 Apr 2011

It's Mee Siam Mai Hum AGAIN, Sir!

Don't lah! I cannot take it!
This is afterall, the party which MM Lee and his founding kakis are/were part of. Please try to keep its value intact.

Ms Tin's parents are coffee shop owners, not owners of a tiny mee siam stall in an industrial park in Jurong West, nor factory workers, nor road sweepers?!!

Coffeeshops are lucrative entities. My stint at in a local commercial bank tells me so, where the cashflows of coffeeshops are reviewed for loan approval. (Unless Ms Tin's parents are lousy coffeeshop owners which is unlikely coz they have been at it for decades and could send their daughter to university.)

And you know what, Sir?
I bet Ms Tin's parents make more than my Chinese-educated teacher parents combined.

As such, going by your categorisation of Ms Tin as 'poor-knowing', then it must be correct that I, my middle class cousins and friends, are freaking poor-knowing experts, coz our folks did not earn as much as Ms Tin's parents do, and we have been hanging out at kopitiams and hawker centres a lot.
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It's already really sad for multiple ministers to have to come forward to justify how and why this kid has been selected as a PAP MP candidate.

It is tragic to see your futile attempt to justify this publicly again.

It doesn't matter whether she has been a 'good grassroots leader' coz (i) the definition of 'good' is defined by your people only, and more importantly, (ii) the contemporary voters simply don't care about grassrooting, good or bad.

The bottom line is that as a young candidate, her profile is not convincing to voters plus/minus 10 years from 27 years old. These are the Gen Xers and Gen Yers, who are the most vocal.

Why isn't Ms Tin convincing?

Because (A) her educational qualifications, work achievements, ability to use Facebook and Twitter are merely commonplace.

More crucially, (B) she (i) married young, (ii) is married to someone who is 13 years her senior and is a high-ranking government official, and (iii) will be drawing a MP salary of $15k per month and would start to draw a MP life-long pension at the age of 37 if she goes through 2 terms.

All these points make her an ATYPICAL 27 year old, whom other young people would view with suspicion. Her Kate Spade bag picture simply sealed the preconception in the minds of these young voters. It doesn't take a psychology major to figure this out.

This is not about the veracity of Ms Tin's attributes, but about whether she appears convincing to the young voters. The answer is that she is NOT convincing.

So stop deluding anyone that she is a young candidate whom young voters can align with. And stop making it worse by raising Mee Siam Mai Hum points, revealing your own lack of understanding of the lower rungs of the Singapore society.