Brad Bowyer Resigns From PSP, Citing Differences in Views on Vaccine Programme, Claims Wife and Family Feel Unsafe to be in Singapore
After just barely 24 hours of being slammed by netizens for his insensitive and grossly inappropriate post of likening the division of pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine groups in Singapore to the Holocaust, PSP member Brad Bowyer has decided to call it quits and resign from the political party.
His swift decision was announced on his Facebook account just today (11th Aug), in a very lengthy post detailing the reasons for his departure from the PSP.
In summary, Brad Bowyer says that as some of his views are vastly different from Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) views, he had to make a choice (to change his views or leave the party). He added that, while he may have left PSP, he will continue to stand firm against the keyboard warriors who are trying hard to derail him from his position on how badly the COVID-19 crisis has been handled.
In explaining why he had used the image of the Holocaust and likened it to the division of pro and anti vaccine groups, he says that his family and many hundreds of thousands of Singaporeans who have concerns about vaccination were formally made second class citizens in their own country. He explained that the online vitriol and ill will against the unvaccinated people, is causing many people including his wife to feel unsure of their future and livelihoods, and furthermore, the calls for starvation, expulsion, and being locked up in their homes, is making it feel unsafe to even be in Singapore.
Being one of the largest opposition parties in Singapore, it should be assumed that the PSP has very stringent criteria and a rigorous screening process when it comes to admitting new members into the party, and more so when fielding the particular member as a candidate in the elections.
To recap, PSP Chairman Tan Cheng Bock once spoke to reporters just before the GE2020, about how he chooses his members for the PSP. During the interview he says that every potential member to be recruited must see him, and that he does not look at a person’s qualifications or academic performance, but instead looks at the person’s character.
One must wonder what sort of character did Tan Cheng Bock see in Brad Bowyer, to not only accept his application to be a PSP member, but actually field him as a candidate in the Nee Soon GRC.
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