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Workers Party’s Performance is disappointing! Read this please !

Tiu-leh-see-fart

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If you read SDP website, you realize this party is moving the right direction except Dr Chee and friends must fight real hard to win trust and confidence and of course, winning votes to sit in the parliament.
People who are willing to give SDP a chance would certainly egg SDP on ---win next GE! Focus on the voters and the toi-let reality they are facing. Hope SDP could win a GRC next GE !

Let’s talk about WP.

What have these WP MPs and NCMPs done at the parliament and on the ground?
Do arguing on Dirty Hawker Center saga and organized event without approval see honor ? Do all these trivial issues benefit the voters? How could going to court prove anything to a common man in the streets ? If WP MPs visit Blk 520 Hougang Ave 6 , a broken lighted sign at the entrance (above the canal ) and the very dirty walls of low -rise flats and the unsightly bin centre (outside bin centre)behind Block 521, they would know that what is the priority running town council when comes to maintenance and cleanliness.

You know, winning votes is when you have a place in the parliament, you ask questions and then you propose and suggest opinions to the house good for the people and country. Whether the parliament accepts or sneers at your ideas is no more an issue, what matters is the voters who hear or read your ideas good for them that counts, you win votes during this process.

In short, you win votes before the GE; you lock votes during GE hustings. So don’t think that only at the GE rallies, you win votes because those crowds are your supporters. Those do not support you are not your audiences. You don’t wait till GE to win votes; WP MPs have to speak up for the people now and then before the GE if you want to help the Singaporeans period.

Real ground issues are many, we just talk a few . There is no defamation or personal issues link to them, just speak up for the people so your party can expand your territory. There is no need for clever conversation, just simple-man talk if you WP MPs are no good in policies making.

•Cost of living, people complain because when income is spent more on housing loans and other necessities, you left too little to find happiness. There are so many issues regarding this and yet WP MPs are not talking.

•CPF. This vehicle was good before it turns bad. WP MPs can suggest Govt tops up ordinary account every month for all citizens for retirement if PAP refuses to set up another retirement network because most Ordinary account monies are used to defrayed housing loans. There are so many things related to CPF. Why no wind and no sound?

•NS . Male Singaporeans serve the NS with very little salaries and do the reservist training for so many years. WP MPs can suggest that NS to be curtailed to 1.5 years and RT to 5 years. On top of these sickening issues, reduce number of days for RT because the employers are not happy. This bad NS practice drives bosses to hire foreign workers. And this is not fair to male Singaporeans . When you WP MPs speak up this NS issue, you win the young votes , most of them. Why are you not doing because male Singaporeans are suffering under this cruelty and slavery ? Help those who voted for you people into the parliament!

•Minister salaries—suggest an amount close to $50, 000 for PM and lesser for Ministers. This would mean Singapore could cut cost and life can be better for Singaporeans. For example—when crude oil price drops 50% , pump price should also drop , PUB bills should drop either! Another thing, you can suggest PM should elected by the people and do away the PE ! Don’t you WP MPs see what is coming at you when you speak from the heart ?Elected PM will work for the people but appointed Pm will work for himself ! First world country entails a first world salary for all citizens !

•Healthcare—those elderly above 80 should be given automatic free medishield coverage or free healthcare when they are hospitalized up to 3 months. There are simply too many to talk about .

•Transport ---MRT is like a steam locomotive on the rail track without traffic lights. You know from east to west merely 30 KM takes more than an hour , you laugh when you sit the rapid train somewhere else. But why the price to sit MRT is so high for young and old? May be WP MPs are all driving new cars ! Transport is part of living cost, we need some voices to bring it down.

•Temasek and GIC ---this is an intelligent subject but WP MPs need not go into details , You see, Singapore has no natural resources, money is everything in life in Singapore, without which , Singapore sinks and stinks ! Putting this two public investment arms under the Ministry of finance open a new phase would mean good for Singaporeans and the country. What belongs to people and country should return to the right place. Right ? Check and balance requires this simple courage . You only suggest and let the people decide, this time , you can really let the people decide .

•Defence budget ---12 billion per year is no small-man issue. Building a good defence is circumspect but if the budget is sky high, people suffer. Being pacifist and a smart nation can cut down this astronomical money THAT in turn benefitting the whole nation . Why WP MPs are not talking ?

The list is endless, certainly WP MPs cannot be carried away in the fairy-tale economy and hope for Durian votes every GE. If PAP MPs prefer to be yesmen, so be it .

Can you imagine the voters voted for PAP people to get high salaries and free healthcare , and live in opulent houses , did WP MPs tell the voters about this or you prefer to quarrel with PAP people on ants and rats eating up the leftover at hawker centers ? Who makes a Govt ? Silent is not all the time golden . MOST SINGAPOREANS LIVE FROM HAND TO MOUTH, PAYCHECKS TO PAYCHECKS ! We ask ourselves , what is good when living cost is artificially shooting up like nobody business for the sake of those in the ivory tower .
Singapore is going to the dogs, and people need your relevant voice at the parliament.

You know, to many people, WP is like a hope FOR THEM TO SEE A BETTER , a LESS COSTLY and A HAPPIER LIFE.
Workers Party , please speak up, help Singaporeans and Singapore.
 

tanwahp

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No matter how these ghost writers like to spin (and spin), I will never be really able to see any difference (between WP and other parties including PAP). If it becomes obvious, I will be first to admit.
 

xpo2015

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Maybe majority of Singaporeans doesn't want the right wing extremists to take power? Another singapore Hitler may appear in the ranks!
 

Man in the streets

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I agree with the writer.

Voters took courage to vote for WP MPs to sit in parliament, WP MPs should also take a little courage to speak up relevant issues that directly affecting the Singaporeans instead.

It is true that trivial issues do not make any impact to have a better life.
Issues that the writer said a big piece are those real- ground issues WP MPs should touch on.

What is good asking about land reclamation by the Malaysians ? It don’t strike chord and win WP votes.
Perhaps WP is just looking forward for a few seats in parliament and hoping PAP be Govt for a long time.

Checks and balance entail WP MPs to speak up real issues and not ask questions voters are not interested. Among other things, medishield saga is already out, what say you WP MPs ?

Writer is right that most bin centers under the WP are unsightly, very .
You are also right to say that winning votes before GE is correct. WP should change this mindset. There are a big number of new citizens who are ready to vote more oppo parties.

By saying you are not ready to be Govt is downgrading yourself. You are in politics, so u say your words right.

It is not too late, WP MPs should take a little courage to speak up for their supporters in the right tone in the parliament.
 

Tiu-leh-see-fart

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Dear all

see and hear for yourselves the next parliamentary meeting.

you and your friends and relatives would be disappointed what WP MPs have to ask.

just ask questions , just ask questions....that are not relevant or related to our daily cost of living.
 

PoliticalDialogue

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The likelihood is that WP will gain more parliamentary seats.
But the other non-PAP entities are unlikely to come even close.

The above of course differs with the virtual reality of cyberspace.
 

Man in the streets

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Yes, in reality, it is so difficult for oppo parties to win a GRC and get into parliament.

With the support of the voters, WP broke the PAP iron gate.

It is true other oppo parties will find harder to win votes becos of reputation.

WP MPs should use this platform to speak up and win more votes to capture more GRCs to deny PAP majority , and change can come.

Politics is not just organizing tours, dance to the music, sit with big pay, you at least have to take calculated risk to help singaporeans.

And WP MPs are given this mandate to do so. PAP MPS are useless, WP MPs cannot be likewise.

In the third world parliament, if you cant even ask basic relevant questions and suggest ideas, how could you argue tooth nail in the parliament when the first world comes?

It is truly disappointing like what the writer wrote ---depending on durian votes to sit cosy in the parliament.
 

winnipegjets

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WP did okay lah ... I like them to humtum hard but can live with them being diplomatic during parliament debate.

But come 2016, they will need to aggressively humtum the PAP. It is time to use attack ads on the PAP. Place them on youtube and broadcast it during rallies. Allow sinkees to download these ads.

If WP can't wrest government from the PAP, the whole WP should dissolve.
 

3_M

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Yes, in reality, it is so difficult for oppo parties to win a GRC and get into parliament.

With the support of the voters, WP broke the PAP iron gate.

It is true other oppo parties will find harder to win votes becos of reputation.

WP MPs should use this platform to speak up and win more votes to capture more GRCs to deny PAP majority , and change can come.

Politics is not just organizing tours, dance to the music, sit with big pay, you at least have to take calculated risk to help singaporeans.

And WP MPs are given this mandate to do so. PAP MPS are useless, WP MPs cannot be likewise.

In the third world parliament, if you cant even ask basic relevant questions and suggest ideas, how could you argue tooth nail in the parliament when the first world comes?

It is truly disappointing like what the writer wrote ---depending on durian votes to sit cosy in the parliament.


Durian tour might seems irrelevant and trivial but I think it absolutely necessary.

Many voters are not interested in current affairs and politics and this group of political apathetic voters are ironically sizable enough to decide the outcome of election. There is really no way to win over them other than to build rapport through organizing events like durian tour. Pap knows this better which is why they try all sort of methods to handicap opposition ability to reach out to them at grassroots level. Whether it speaking up in parliament or organizing durian tour it just different means towards achieving the goal of capturing more seats. For as long as we are on the right track, it doesn't matter what method we used.

Other than WP, the rest of the oppositions doesn't give voters much reasons vote for them other than casting a protest vote against the ruling party. Their votes are dependent on whether pap give voters the reasons to vote against pap. Thus votes for opposition should be seen as vote against ruling party rather than support for opposition. Once the sentiment improves and anger subsides, many of the votes will go back to pap. Hence I hold a rather bleak view on the chance on the rest for the coming GE.
 
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