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The Value Of Moderate Opposition Much of the post-mortem analysis on the results of GE2015 has been focused on the likely reasons for the almost 10% swing towards the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). There has been little, if any, analysis on the vast disparity in percentage votes secured...

The following two paras were published in TOC: ‘Speaking before a crowd that filled the SDP’s headquarters and spilled out the front door, SDP secretary-general Chee Soon Juan argued that the power imbalances in the system meant “elections in Singapore can have one, and only one, outcome… PAP...

The Value of Moderate Opposition Much of the post-mortem analysis on the results of GE2015 has been focused on the likely reasons for the almost 10% swing towards the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). There has been little, if any, analysis on the vast disparity in percentage votes secured...

Post-elections forum - What's at Stake? - 19 Sep 2015 A team of experts – including Dr Jack Lee, Sudhir Thomas, Alex Au, and Dr Derek da Cunha -- will discuss & analyse the outcome of the election and the future of our democracy. The discussion will take place as follows:- Date ...

... will be disappointed. Only moderate opposition, i.e., WP, stands a chance in GE2015. It is the WP of LTK. Definitely NOT the WP of JBJ. Why? Because this is the overwhelming nature of Singapore society -- moderate and/or conservative. Those who have personal axes to grind...

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This lad [Amos Yee] must have read the manual on movie screenwriting as he likes to inject cliffhangers in whatever he says. In the three days that he has set aside for the drafting of his apology he can also come up with names of anyone who had instigated him to put together that incendiary...

Jeremy Chen resigns from the SDP; an SDP official gives the party's side as to what happened January 28, 2015 at 10:05pm, Facebook An assistant secretary-general of the SDP, Mr Christopher Ang, has listed a number of reasons why the party had some issues with Mr Jeremy Chen -- who has now...

“In what sense are you the opposition, right? Cause on some level you’ve failed electorally, right? We do have an opposition out there, as was pointed out [by the previous questioner], which is the Workers’ Party who, apparently, were not invited.” You might think that these remarks –...

Netizens should focus on the 1990s, not the 1960s There has been plenty of focus on the events of 50 years ago, including those chronicled in a recently released documentary film. However, in my opinion, those events have dubious relevance in understanding Singapore’s current political...

A flood of donations might ease the hardship of not having an army October 28, 2014 at 7:56am In a FB Note on 15 October 2014, Mr Roy Ngerng bemoaned the fact that he has been “fighting on the front but without an army behind” him. As has become his custom, Mr Ngerng’s note is loosely...

TJS seems to have put out this statement because Netizens asked him to keep them informed of the other parties response to his letter to meet. For the most part it seems that he and SFP have been given a lukewarm response by the other parties. This is why he really does not have much to...

Madam Regina Aun, 55, manager of Y Stars, said: "While they have the right of expression, it was an event for people with special needs. They could have shown a little more compassion." Scholar and author, Dr Derek da Cunha, wrote on facebook: "Some special needs kids took to the stage to...

The People’s Action Party and the Workers’ Party have been girding themselves for the next general election, likely to be held in 2015. The other political parties however do not seem to have done anything to make themselves electable. The PAP has introduced a number of initiatives to...

The PAP and the path of least resistance July 6, 2014 at 11:17am By Derek da Cunha The report that the defeated People’s Action Party candidate in GE2011, Mr Ong Ye Kung, might be fielded again by the PAP at the next general election but possibly this time in Sembawang GRC, is an...

Chiams retain seats in Singapore People's Party CEC Published on Jan 05, 2014, 7:47 PM, The Straits Times By Maryam Mokhtar Singapore People's Party (SPP) chairman Lina Chiam, 65, kept her place in the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC) with the most number of votes at an election...

Voting against the PAP does not mean embracing a liberal agenda by Derek da Cunha Since the 2011 general election, some of the chatter in the online world appears to have misread – either unintentionally or otherwise –the Workers’ Party’s breakthrough in taking down a GRC (Group...

Groundswell of disquiet knocks out PAP in Punggol East, boosting WP and marginalizing smaller opposition parties by Derek da Cunha FB NOTE posted on January 26, 2013 at 11:13pm Read at...