“BLANK CHEQUE”
Mr Ng’s speech was briefly interrupted when a woman in the audience fainted. He paused his speech and signalled for paramedics to attend to her. She later recovered and walked off.
Continuing with his speech, Mr Ng also took aim at WP’s Mr Singh over his comments about labour MPs on Saturday.
Mr Singh previously stated that there was no shortage of labour MPs in parliament, and that “voting in these two PAP NTUC candidates will not make a difference”, referring to Mr Ng and NTUC assistant secretary-general Desmond Choo, who is contesting Tampines-Changkat SMC.
To this, Mr Ng said: “WP won 10 seats in 2020. We only had seven labour MPs. That’s less than what the WP has.”
“So friends, here I am standing before you, telling you my story, trying to build and unite. What the WP is doing is to criticise and tear down without any concrete plans or proposals to substitute.”
Rebutting Mr Singh’s claims in the rally that the PAP wants Singaporeans to sign “a blank cheque”, Mr Ng said: “Sylvia Lim said that WP does not have a plan for constituencies where they are not incumbents.”
“Can you believe that? What it means to you in bright neon headlights is that the Workers’ Party has no plans for you. They want your vote, but they have no plans to build Jalan Kayu into a home that you want or desire,” he said.
“They want a blank cheque from you,” said Mr Ng, who then questioned if this meant the WP is the responsible opposition that they claim to be.
