About Chow: Yes time will tell

Read a funny forum article by Benjamin Chow, in which Chow questioned the motives of Chen Show Mao for returning to Singapore now to join the opposition. Chow is "wary of those who choose to return when the pickings are ripe."

The funny thing is, I didn't know that the time is ripe for one to join the oppositions. It suggests that joining the oppositions now will yield some kind of benefits. But what benefits? Unfortunately, Chow did not elaborate.

So I'll have to venture a guess that perhaps joining the opposition now increases Chen's chance of being voted into the parliament, and hence, increases his chance of earning the million dollars ministerial pay.

But if the oppositions stand a higher chance of being voted in now, it must therefore suggest that the ground, whatever or whoever that means, is getting bored/ impatient/ frustrated with the existing policies. Is that the case?

Perhaps Chow knows better than I do. ;)