Merging ministries

Due to the global financial firestorm, the government has decided to come up with a new plan to cope with it. It is to merge ministries together like how they merge SMC into GRC. RealBlurPolitics® speak to Mr Angkat Bola, a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office to understand better. Mr Angkat said that the government will combine at least two ministries together to form a new one. He mentioned that the move will save costs, provide greater interaction among civil servants and create racial harmony

Here is a rough overview of how it will look like according to Mr Angkat

The Defence ministry and Home Affairs ministry will become one and it will be renamed Safety ministry. Our country has been renowned for having a wonderful defence force. By making both ministries work together, we will have a strong defence force in, out and around our nation. Also, the defence side will be keeping a close eye on the Home Affairs side to make sure that silly incidents do not happen again, like letting a short and limping terrorist escape from a grilleless toilet window

Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts will also merge into a single one called Fun ministry. These two ministries deal with less crucial things in the country like counselling youngsters, making the country become world-famous for holding the first F1 night race, watching movies before the public do and cut scenes wherever they want, promoting arts to the people here who are more interested in doing something more useful instead etc

The ministries of National Development, Manpower and Trade and Industry will combine to become the Labour ministry. These three are the more rigorous ones and making them work closely will boost the economy. JTC Corporation, together with National Parks Board and Housing Development Board will sweat together to create more homes and parks in the western part of the country. Due to multifariousness issues, a Malay minister is needed speak up in parliament and watch the Chinese closely

Health, Law, Education, Transport and Finance ministries will all become one family as they are the ones who grab the headlines more often. Hence, the new name will be leading actor, oops I mean leading ministry. Civil servants working in statutory boards under this ministry will receive bonuses first before their counterparts from others and are the least possible people to get retrenched

The ministry of the Environment and Water Resources will team up with PMO to work together to achieve the goals they setted. Actually, it is more like the story of DBS and POSB where the latter gets "eaten up" but still operates with the former pulling the strings daily since the only significant thing MEWR came up with was NEWater. Those hybrid cars or whatever you call it costs a bomb and only our ministers with thick salaries can afford buying one

Foreign Affairs ministry will remain as it is since it maintains diplomatic relations with 165 other countries. Having another ministry to chup will only complicate matters. Furthermore, there are 55 resident foreign Embassies and High Commissions, 39 foreign Consular posts and 8 International Organisations here, so it will take a long time for them to adapt to a newcomer