Well it’s a pretty slow news day… for personal finance matters that is, so I thought I might as well calculate the amount of money taxpayers are going to save from now until the next general election. Riveting stuff, I know. I suppose you could check out Singapore Airlines’ Spontaneous Escapes destinations for August 2023 if you just want to nope out of Singapore for a bit in light of recent happenings, but they‘d put a Member of Parliament to sleep compared to the exciting events we’ve witnessed over the past month.

No by-election

For those who haven’t been paying attention to what’s perhaps our country’s most turbulent parliament term in modern times, we now have 5 vacant/vacating seats across 5 Group Representation Constituencies (GRC), and there are no plans for any elections to take place to fill these empty seats. Heck, we may even get a press conference from the people in blue as early as tomorrow morning...