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C. M. Turnbull has written in the book A History of Modern Singapore, 1819 - 2005 “All the PAP leaders were pragmatists, and they attracted men of similar ilk to their ranks: economists, bankers, architects, and town planners. The party took pride in rejecting not merely communism but ideologies in general, ... |
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in the belief that people wanted good government in the solid shape of jobs, housing, schools and healthcare.” Ms. Turnbull has also written of ex-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew that he “put society before the individual and was impatient with those whom he took to be weaklings or fools.” |
