Punggol East By-Election -- WP Lee Li Lian
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
c'mon lor, can i exchange him with TPL
TPL's father owns a coffeeshop and she says tt's why she understands the poor wtf owning a coffeeshop is like hving a goose that lays golden eggs
people's father was at least a bus driver
u stay at circuit road that side?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
charlize is anchorvale lah
sengkang west smc.
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rp and sda confirmed candidate liao
i hope they gain no seat now and in 2016
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Originally posted by laurence82:
rp and sda confirmed candidate liao
i hope they gain no seat now and in 2016
RP will be the biggest loser. at least SDA can still reuse his banners and posters again -
Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
Maybe PAP should run a joint campaign with SDP to fight against WP.
it's like ur asking cao cao to allied with liu bei, gang up against sun quan
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Originally posted by SevenEleven:
RP will be the biggest loser. at least SDA can still reuse his banners and posters againlegacy/influence of chiam dies when he failed to conquer bishan-tpy grc, and his wife lost potong pasir smc. SDA can dissolve itself and it's constituent parties contest in 2016.
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Originally posted by kengkia:
sengkang west smc.
the MP there oso quite yandao one leh
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Originally posted by kengkia:
legacy/influence of chiam dies when he failed to conquer bishan-tpy grc, and his wife lost potong pasir smc. SDA can dissolve itself and it's constituent parties contest in 2016.
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Originally posted by iveco:
Hougang has more older-gen voters. Why did they choose WP? Your logic is a little flawed.these old hougang voters are former pig farmers who kena played out by tang guan seng. they all voted for LTK en masse back in 1991.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
the MP there oso quite yandao one leh
nanny MP teo ser luck heard he's quite yandao too..
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Originally posted by SevenEleven:
s proposing a hawker centre to solve PE traffic problems 8Onot enough hawker center in rivervale area?
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still got hawker centres now?
the oni "hawker centre" in sengkang is sengkang square de kopitiam
the stalls change hands more than i press the ban button everyday
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Originally posted by FireIce:
still got hawker centres now?
the oni "hawker centre" in sengkang is sengkang square de kopitiam
the stalls change hands more than i press the ban button everyday
wah....fifi so well informed. fifi stays in Sengkang? wait! 8O fif is charlize? 8O -
Originally posted by laurence82:
rp and sda confirmed candidate liao
i hope they gain no seat now and in 2016
I hope they get close to zero votes this time round.
Then that would wreck their 'brilliant' plan to derail WP and make them lose a lot of credibility.
Not to mention they would find themselves $16k poorer, but I think that's as good as certain anyway.
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frankly, most of the opposition idiots are worse than clowns
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btw.... today is nomination day right?
let's see if any of the idiots come to their senses and pull out
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Originally posted by fudgester:
I hope they get close to zero votes this time round.
Then that would wreck their 'brilliant' plan to derail WP and make them lose a lot of credibility.
Not to mention they would find themselves $16k poorer, but I think that's as good as certain anyway.
And right on cue, today's Toilet News Paper ran an article that discussed the motives of the other opposition parties.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
And right on cue, today's Toilet News Paper ran an article that discussed the motives of the other opposition parties.
just when you think they've reached rock bottom, they bring out the pneumatic drills and start digging
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Ah..... this article?
Envy over WP’s political ascent?
PICTURE: Berita Harian
Are those standing for the Punggol East by-election more keen to beat the Workers’ Party (WP) than the People’s Action Party?
After all, there are high odds to overcome. They have to take on the main opposition party and its candidate, who contested the last General Election.
Political pundits said other opposition party candidates could be out to spoil WP’s party. There are many reasons for them stepping into the fray: Envy over WP’s political ascent, desire to clip WP’s wings and prevent them growing from strength to strength.
It could be payback for WP leaders breaking the tacit gentleman’s agreement to avoid multi-cornered fights. Or they could be out to guard their turf.
In the meantime, SDP decided not to contest in the Punggol East by-election yesterday morning.
Read the full reports in The New Paper on Wednesday (Jan 16).
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Ah..... this article?
Envy over WP’s political ascent?
PICTURE: Berita Harian
Are those standing for the Punggol East by-election more keen to beat the Workers’ Party (WP) than the People’s Action Party?
After all, there are high odds to overcome. They have to take on the main opposition party and its candidate, who contested the last General Election.
Political pundits said other opposition party candidates could be out to spoil WP’s party. There are many reasons for them stepping into the fray: Envy over WP’s political ascent, desire to clip WP’s wings and prevent them growing from strength to strength.
It could be payback for WP leaders breaking the tacit gentleman’s agreement to avoid multi-cornered fights. Or they could be out to guard their turf.
In the meantime, SDP decided not to contest in the Punggol East by-election yesterday morning.
Read the full reports in The New Paper on Wednesday (Jan 16).
Yup. It quotes a few of them as saying that this is just democracy at work. However the reality is not ideal for that to work perfectly. They don't have the visibility, clout and momentum on their side.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
just when you think they've reached rock bottom, they bring out the pneumatic drills and start digging
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
Police probe Singapore daily over voter poll
5:27 pm | Monday, January 14th, 2013
SINGAPORE—Police said Monday they were investigating Singapore’s top daily The Straits Times over a voter survey it conducted ahead of a by-election in apparent breach of a law against polls during the campaign.
The by-election on January 26 is for a seat left vacant when the former Speaker of parliament, Michael Palmer, stepped down after confessing to an extramarital affair.
The Elections Department said an article published by the English-language newspaper on January 10, a day after the election was called, was “currently being looked into by the police.”
Police confirmed the investigation.
The Straits Times itself disclosed the investigation on its website late Sunday and said it would cooperate in any police probe.
The broadsheet’s January 10 issue carried a report on a poll it conducted among 50 residents in the contested ward. The article was headlined “ST poll: More rooting for PAP.”
The PAP, or People’s Action Party, has been in power since 1959.
“This was not a full-scale survey, or scientific poll, by any means,” editor-in-chief Warren Fernandez said in remarks carried by the newspaper on Monday, vowing to cooperate with any police probe.
“The headline for our story overstated the significance of the information gathered by calling it a poll. We are sorry for this lapse.”
The Straits Times is the flagship publication of Asian media giant Singapore Press Holdings.
In Singapore it is illegal to publish the results of voter surveys from the day the election is called until the end of polling.
Offenders can be fined up to Sg$1,500 ($1,200) or jailed for up to 12 months, or both.
The by-election will give a new snapshot of the public mood less than two years after the PAP suffered its worst ever election result in May 2011 when its share of the popular vote fell to 60 percent.
It still holds 81 of the 87 seats in parliament but has come under severe criticism for its handling of immigration and public services as well as the rising cost of living and widening income gap in the affluent city-state.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/340353/police-probe-singapore-daily-over-voter-poll
Shitty TImes got impaled by its own sword?
Hahahahaha
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Why Lee Li Lian and not NCMPs?
NEWS ANALYSIS
By KOR KIAN BENG
FOR the past few days, Workers' Party (WP) members had been suggesting that one of its pair of Non-Constituency MPs (NCMPs) Gerald Giam and Yee Jenn Jong might be fielded as its candidate for the Punggol East by-election.
So it came as a bit of a surprise even to insiders yesterday when the WP named the 34-year-old sales trainer, Ms Lee Li Lian, as its candidate.
On paper at least, she is hardly the strongest contender to secure the seat from the ruling People's Action Party.
After all, the party's NCMPs have had greater media exposure and are more familiar with policy issues, having served as NCMPs since the 2011 General Election. They have also sparred with government MPs and ministers in Parliament.
There are limited downsides to picking the NCMPs too. They do not have to quit their parliamentary roles to contest and can keep their seats even if they fail to get elected, because of a quirk in the Constitution.
So this would seem like a "win-win" option. So why didn't the WP take it up?
One view is that the party is actually not playing to win. With the increasing likelihood of a three- or even four-cornered fight, the WP's chances of victory might be diminished.
Rather than letting the NCMPs suffer another defeat after their losses in the general election, Ms Lee could be seen as a less costly sacrifice, if the worst came to pass for the party.
Mr Giam was defeated as part of the WP's five-member team in East Coast GRC, while Mr Yee lost out narrowly in the Joo Chiat single- seat ward.
Fielding either of the duo could trigger criticisms of them being opportunistic in deserting the constituencies that had sent them into Parliament, albeit as NCMPs.
For Mr Giam personally, being picked as the candidate could invite more ill-will internally as it meant he would be leapfrogging over an "incumbent" choice for the second time, as unfair as the charge might be.
After the general election, the WP picked Mr Giam to be one of its two NCMPs even though the party's East Coast GRC team leader Eric Tan wanted the job. NCMPs are top-performing opposition candidates at an election. It led to Mr Tan's resignation from the party.
The WP may also not relish seeing one of its NCMPs contest and turn in a worse performance than, say, a Singapore Democratic Party candidate.
It would dent the WP's standing in the opposition scene since the last general election.
To be fair, Ms Lee has more than a bit going for her too.
At the last general election, she secured a respectable 41 per cent of valid votes in Punggol East in a three-way fight against the PAP's Michael Palmer and the Singapore Democratic Alliance's Desmond Lim Bak Chuan.
Mr Palmer went on to become the Speaker of Parliament before he quit last month over an extramarital affair.
Ms Lee's experience at Punggol East and familiarity with the ward were key factors why she was selected, said WP leaders Low Thia Khiang and Sylvia Lim yesterday.
If she scores a win, it would vindicate the WP's surprise choice and will no doubt deepen WP's support base.
If she does not, any internal post-mortem will have to grapple with the question of whether the party gave Punggol East its best shot.
Top of the news, The Straits Times, Tuesday, January 15 2013, Pg A6