A Quote by Tan Cheng Bock

If you've got no base, it's very difficult to function as an MP. You cannot be a 'virtual' MP, you must be a proper one. — © Tan Cheng Bock
If you've got no base, it's very difficult to function as an MP. You cannot be a 'virtual' MP, you must be a proper one.
I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.
I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.
Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
As an MP, I could hardly meet my constituents' genuine needs as the funds at an MP's disposal are meagre.
An MP is an MP whether male or female.
I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.
Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.
Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.
I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.
The pressures of being an MP mean free time is a very rare luxury.
Rahul Gandhi cannot be a prime minister because he is a citizen of Britain, and his Indian citizenship will be cancelled; he won't even be an MP.
That's what you've got to be to be an MP: a problem solver. How can I help you? How can I engage? What do you need?
A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.
Being an MP is a challenging job - it's strange hours, and if you have another half, they have to be supportive. But it can be very flexible, and of course you get recesses, which I find work very well around school term times.
It's always a pleasure to perform in MP.
I have been an MP and government minister.
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