OPINION | Them’s the Breaks – Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - The Independent Singapore News

It’s been a dramatic week for Prime Ministers of the most powerful nations on the planet. The most recent news was the assassination of the former Japanese Prime Minister and a few days earlier, Mr Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was forced out of power.

My social media feed also had people asking if Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party would ever dump a party leader in the same way that the UK had. Mr Johnson’s forced resignation isn’t the Westminster System. I’m old enough to remember when the Conservatives Forced Mrs Thatcher out of power. Unlike Mr Johnson, Mrs Thatcher had a reputation for competence and had a track record of winning three General Elections with decent-sized majorities.

Unlike Mr Johnson, Mr Trump has yet to be perceived by the Republican Party as a “vote loser.” Say what you like about Mr Trump, but he has been an effective vote-getter from a certain segment of the population, who have stuck with him despite the various scandals and issues surrounding him. Whilst Singapore’s electoral system has yet to reach a stage of accommodating a two-party system , something similar happened.

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