Respecting the democratic process

Singapore’s General Elections 2011 has ended, and all Singaporeans should respect the results of the democratic election process. Chiam See Tong, stalwart of the Singapore People’s Party, has lost his place in Parliament after 27 years of service to the country. His wife, who was given the task of defending the seat of Potong Pasir [...]

Too little, too late

Singapore’s general elections this year is remarkable, for it’s the first time in decades that most Singaporeans can exercise their basic right of being in a democracy: the right to vote. In past elections, many of the seats up for election have been uncontested, resulting in walkovers by the incumbent People’s Action Party, who has never [...]

Do the right thing and say sorry

Just when this blog published a piece on how hard it was to get the prime minister to say sorry, the People’s Action Party team in Aljunied Group Representative Contituency wrote a Facebook note which ought to have been an apology but instead turned out to be a denial. The note titled “Response to Online [...]

It’s hard to say sorry

It took the People’s Action Party seven days after Nomination Day before it finally acknowledged that it has done poorly in some areas in the years since the PAP won the last general elections. PAP’s secretary-general and Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien Loong apologised for his party’s missteps during a lunchtime rally on May 4, [...]

Auntie power

In this elections, Gen-Y voters may be playing a more significant role than in 2006, but the bulk of the votes still lies in the hands of the Gen-X group, and any candidate wishing to win any seat must be able to seal signifcant support of the Gen-X group. The People’s Action Party appeared to [...]

Counter fear with facts, counter darkness with light

With all the fear mongering about falling property prices in Aljunied that the People’s Action Party has been engaging in recently, someone needs to set the record straight, and two very credible netizens, Bernard Leong and Gilbert Koh, who is better known as Mr Wang, have both written very insightful articles about why Aljunied residents need not [...]

Straight from the horse’s mouth

Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has spoken many times in the past few days about the People’s Action Party’s political opponents. Reproduced below are some comments of the more controversial comments Lee was quoted as saying to various news media outlets. Quoted from Yahoo! News: “The only way people learn is when they have to [...]

Aljunied voters may not regret choosing WP

Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has launched what could arguably be the biggest fear mongering political missile of General Elections 2011 at the Workers’ Party. Lee was quoted as saying in a Yahoo! News story that Hougang’s property prices, under the care of Workers’ Party secretary-general Low Thia Kiang, are not as high as that [...]

Straits Times front page factual error

The Straits Times committed a major factual error in a front page headline on its morning print edition published on April 28. The headline read, “PAP challenged for 82 seats.” This is factually incorrect. There are a total of 87 seats up for contest, of which 82 are being contested by various political parties, with [...]

Gen-Y: Independent, young and unpredictable

The upcoming General Elections 2011 will see much larger numbers of eligible Gen-Y voters since the last elections in 2006. According to a white paper by the e-Government Leadership Institute, Gen-Y refers to individuals born between 1977 to 1997. For this year’s elections, Gen-Y Singaporeans born between 1977 to 1990 are eligible to vote, making [...]