Disagree.
I vaguely recall TS is from SDP, SDP supporter, etc, etc.
Read my comment
http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?149135-Opposition-(dis)unity&p=1489088#post1489088
His signature also gives others reasons to target SDP.
And TS only has himself to blame, for acting innocent to quote from a known anti-WP website. No?
I think TS has identified himself as a supporter of the SDP. Is that a crime, or does it reduce his credibility?
Signature: he must have been infracted pretty often by WP supporters here, so no surprise if he's asking for a truce. (I myself have been zapped on many occasions by the WP & PAP IB here. That said, I'm not hung up on rep points at all.) More importantly, he did not bash WP in his signature.
On the other hand have you seen the SDP-bashing signatures here – should they be targets too?
TRE started as TR, an anti-PAP website under Joseph Ong, but it slowly morphed into an anti-PAP and anti-WP website for various reasons. But Joe has moved on to Temasek Times, and Richard Wan has taken over. At the old Delfi site Richard was never known for his anti-WP views; rather he was forever carping about foreigners taking away our jobs.
Personally, I think under Richard TRE has toned down its anti-WP rhetoric. If there's the occasional jibe at WP, it's probably out of sheer frustration at the perceived lack of bite of WP as the only voting opposition representatives in Parliament, a frustration that I, as an opposition supporter first and foremost, feel and understand all too well. WP's 'arrogance' vis-a-vis the other opposition parties is also another topic that comes up in kopitiam talk among non-partisan opposition supporters, not just SDP supporters (truth be told, there are not that many SDP supporters out there among the 40%).
I think posting Julie Ong's concerns about opposition unity is justified. Just about everyone these days, even erstwhile apolitical folks, is wringing their hands about how to stem the various PAP policies that are making life hell for them, and a common theme that crops up is: you opposition people should give us more choice, and avoid 3-corner fights to get more people into parliament. That's how the common man sees it – the lack of opposition co-operation is one factor in the lack of oppo voices in parliament. Just because WP supporters don't see the need for unity doesn't mean that other people don't have the right to discuss and champion it. e.g. Tan Jee Say, who has broken ranks with the SDP, is a fervent supporter of opposition unity.
It's understandable for WP supporters to react in a knee-jerk fashion every single time a negative comment is made about WP, but bear in mind the fact that because they outnumber everyone here (including PAP supporters) they risk suppressing free and fair comment in this forum if they keep pouncing on people of differing political persuasion.
Think about it; this forum would be much the poorer for it if it becomes the playground of a select group, the so-called 'elite' by virtue of their strength in numbers, rep points/power and their minions and hangers-on.
