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In this season of goodwill, the Workers’ Party celebrated Christmas with residents by giving back to the community. We bring you insights on the [URL="https://www.facebook.com/hougangsmc/"]Hougang Constituency Education Trust (HCET) award ceremony and the The Workers' Party Youth Wing (WPYW) Festive Donation Drive.






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A Season of Goodwill – Paying It Forward this Christmas with the Workers’ Party In this season of goodwill, the Workers’ Party celebrated Christmas with…
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Residents of Bedok Reservoir - Punggol spreading early Christmas cheer together with Mr Low Thia Khiang. A big thank you to the management of Waterview condominium for being generous hosts this Yuletide season.

 

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Thanks to the residents of Waterview condominium for the warm welcome.
See you at Hougang Central Court (next to Blk 806 Hougang Central) for the last celebration of 2015!

 

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[h=5][URL="https://www.facebook.com/Pritam.Eunos/?fref=nf"]Pritam Singh[/h]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us!

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The Workers' Party wishes all a Happy New Year!


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[h=5]Yee Jenn Jong, JJ (余振忠)[/h]13 hrs ·


Yes, 2015 has been an eventful year. Not the outcome we may wish for, but thanks for the journey.
Thanks for being with me on the journey.


Thanks to my wonderful team mates for being together in the contest.


Thanks to the many who had given so much of your time and resources. Thanks for your sweat, thanks for your tears. Thanks for your cheers, thanks for your hugs. Thanks for the many kilometres travelled together. Thanks for the new friends made, thanks for old friendships rekindled.


Thanks to the many who gave us drinks on our hot and tiring visits, and for the occasional snacks to give us the energy to go a bit longer. Thanks for your many words of encouragement.


Thanks for a year that I shall always remember.


To the many who had come my way this year, as William Shakespeare put it in the Twelfth Night, “I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks…”


See you all in 2016. Wishing everyone a fulfilling year ahead.

 

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[h=5]Dennis Tan Lip Fong 陈立峰[/h]13 hrs ·




Last night, on a cool and wet December evening, WP Fengshan group had our last weekly house visits in Fengshan for the year 2015. Besides listening to feedback on municipal and national policy issues as we normally do on house visits, it was also a great opportunity for us to extend our best wishes to residents for the New Year ahead.


Our group started the year 2015 as part of the WP East Coast group doing weekly house visits in the former East Coast GRC until Fengshan SMC was carved out from East Coast GRC just before the General Election.


I am extremely grateful to all our volunteers for the hard work and sacrifice throughout this year, both during and outside the GE period.


I look forward to continue working together with our fantastic volunteers in 2016. We are lining up new plans for outreach and activities for residents, while continuing to look at how we can serve residents and improve our outreach.


We also look forward to working together with our WP East Coast group colleagues for some common activities and projects next year.


I take this opportunity to wish our volunteers a happy new year and best wishes for the new year.


On behalf of everyone in our WP Fengshan group, I wish all Fengshan residents and indeed all Singaporeans the very best in 2016. May you have good health, happiness, joy and peace in the new year.





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[h=5]Leon Perera added 4 new photos.[/h]December 24, 2015 at 6:34pm ·




Some photos from our East Coast GRC house visits on Tuesday at New Upper Changi Road, introducing our East Coast working group. We had some useful conversations about e-bikes, local amenities and the results of GE2015. Here's wishing all who celebrate a very merry Christmas!

 

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[h=5]Leon Perera[/h]December 27, 2015 at 6:31pm ·


At yesterday's tree planting day at the Paya Lebar ward of Aljunied GRC, together with MP Chen Show Mao, Chairman Sylvia Lim, MP Faisal Manap and NCMP Dennis Tan. We were grateful for the large turn-out of residents on Boxing Day. A nice reminder that, since we can all enjoy Singapore's greenery, we all have a part to play in preserving it.

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[h=5]Leon Perera added 5 new photos.[/h]December 27, 2015 at 6:39pm ·




At our market walk-about at Bedok South Blk 16 bright and early yesterday morning. Many residents and stallholders shared their views on national and local issues, including the GST (where there were concerns about the possibility of a GST hike) and MRT breakdowns. I was very touched by a number of Bedok residents who came up to us to express their support for our continued work in East Coast GRC after GE2015. Support like this helps keep political diversity in Singapore alive.

 

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[h=5]Leon Perera added 5 new photos.[/h]December 30, 2015 at 3:30pm ·




Yesterday marked the second last night of house visits in East Coast GRC for the year 2015. The area has become happily familiar ground after all that’s happened. And the smiles on the faces of the people we met were priceless. Yesterday in Bedok we were touched and humbled to meet many households who supported the Workers’ Party in the last GE. They were all disappointed at the GE2015 result but heartened that the Workers’ Party is striving on and will not give up in the pursuit of a better Singapore through political balance and diversity. Only then can Singapore face up to the challenge of flourishing as a developed economy and society in a 21st century that will be marked by continuous change. We gained many wonderful insights from the Singaporeans we engaged last night – on labour market fairness, education, the media landscape and many other issues. Well, like we shared with everyone we met last night,…we’re all in this together.

 

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[h=5]Leon Perera added 2 new photos.[/h]December 31, 2015 at 9:53am ·




Yesterday night was our last night of house visits in East Coast GRC for the year 2015....and what a year it's been. We're planning ahead for visits, dialogues and initiatives in 2016. As you know, when we do our grassroots work, we cannot rely on taxpayer-funded state organizations with their huge budgets, physical spaces and full-time staff. We depend on volunteers, donors and supporters who love Singapore. If you'd like to help Team WP in East Coast GRC (or any other area too, I will link you up to the right folks)...please drop me a message. Last night we met one East Coast resident who might have an interest in volunteering...if you're reading this, thank you! For me, 2015 has been a year of learning lessons and drawing strength from the wonderful people around me and for which I am so grateful - my family members, my friends, my colleagues, my fellow volunteers and residents. Wisdom and resilience are needed for the long journey ahead. Here's wishing everyone a happy, peaceful and healthy new year in 2016.

 

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[h=5]Leon Perera[/h]January 1 at 4:41pm ·




In the 2015 Year in Review panel discussion, to be broadcast today on Channel News Asia at 8pm, I spoke about how public discourse and much of the civics that is taught in schools is a narrative about survival. The focus tends to be on how we are an extremely vulnerable nation. And how we must continuously worry about survival. Well, if we do not survive there is no tomorrow. That much is true. But we must survive for a purpose, we must survive so as to pursue some goal. There is not enough discussion in our public space and in our schools about what we want to survive to do. What we should cultivate is public discussion, and above all discussion and debate in our schools, about what values and goals should define Singapore in the 21st century. Economic betterment (and how should we define that)? Quality of life? Equality of opportunity? The Democratic Society of our Pledge? A deep sense of community and social solidarity? A collective moral purpose? Our politics and our education should never forget the dangers that could threaten our survival. But we need to go beyond that and focus on what we mean by a thriving and flourishing Singapore. And in that discussion, we should recognize that some of the things that are said to make us vulnerable – like our multi-racial and multi-religious character – are also tremendous sources of strengths that can be turned to our advantage, for example in the quest for innovation and value-creation. And we should never be so complacent as to assume that what we have now is good enough, that we already have as much flourishing as we will ever need, that this is the best of all possible worlds, that we have more to teach other nations than to learn….that we have arrived. That kind of thinking is the biggest threat to a flourishing Singapore…and, in the longer-term, to Singapore’s very survival.

 

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[h=5]Leon Perera added 5 new photos.[/h]January 2 at 7:20pm ·




Happy New Year! In spite of the rainy weather, today was our first day of grassroots work in East Coast GRC for 2016. Mohamed Fairoz and I, together with our awesome team of EC volunteers, walked around the market and food center at Blk 216 Bedok North St 1 to engage residents. We discussed the cost of living and the HDB BTO income ceiling, among other issues. We were delighted to meet many supporters and also many residents who simply wanted to know more about what the Workers' Party is doing nationally and locally to build a credible and useful alternative voice for Singaporeans.

 

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[h=5]Leon Perera added 2 new photos.[/h]Yesterday at 5:30pm ·




Back to school! After 6 weeks of holidays, it was quite an experience for my wife and I to go down to the void deck today just after 6am and wait for two school buses to carry our kids off to the first day of school for 2016. Happily, no one had any trouble waking up on time.

 

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[h=5]The Workers' Party[/h]December 29, 2015 at 3:29pm ·




"A grassroots initiative of MP [URL="https://www.facebook.com/ChenShowMao/"]Chen Show Mao, tree-planting has been a feature of Aljunied GRC’s Paya Lebar division since 2011. According to Mr Chen, tree-planting is a big part of the “Paya Lebar Clean & Green” campaign, which had been freshly launched in 2015."




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Planting a Greener Aljunied-Hougang Town On a sunny Boxing Day morning, Workers’ Party parliamentarians were seen “working the ground”, literally, at a…
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Our official response to Zaobao's questions for this article (http://www.zaobao.com.sg/zpolitics/news/story20160105-567186). Please see Chinese translation below.


The Workers' Party believes that elections for our political system should not dilute the individual voter's voice and should therefore be run on single seats, with individual MPs fully accountable to constituents. The Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) should be abolished and the Non-Constituency MP (NCMP) scheme would be unnecessary, including amendments to the scheme in 2010. However, the Workers' Party would accept individual eligible candidate's decision to take up the NCMP position in recognition of the opportunity given to us to contribute to Parliamentary debate.


Therefore, as the Workers' Party has made known its stand on NCMP positions for the coming session of Parliament in a statement released 16 September 2015, we concur with Ms Lee Li Lian's decision to vacate the NCMP position and with Mr Dennis Tan's decision to accept the NCMP position. We also decided to nominate Mr Leon Perera from the East Coast GRC team to take up the NCMP position and, should Parliament resolve to fill the NCMP seat to be vacated by Ms Lee, Associate Professor Daniel Goh Pei Siong to fill the vacated seat, since the next succeeding candidate would be a member of the Workers' Party East Coast GRC team.

Parliament will have to decide on the fate of the vacated NCMP seat when it opens on15 January 2016.


工人党认为我国的选举制度不应该淡化个别选民的声音，因此主张全国都应该以单选区方式产生国会议员。只有这样，受选民委托的当选议员才能完全向选民负责和 交代。在这个前提下，集选区制度必须废除，而非选区议员制度，包括2010年通过的修正法案，也没有保留的必要。但是，由于能获得参与国会辩论的机会、为 国策和立法的制定做出贡献，工人党会接受个别获得非选区议员资格的工人党候选人接受委任的个人选择。


因此，工人党在2015年9月16日发表的声明中，清楚表明同意李丽连女士谢绝非选区议员任命，以及陈立峰先生出任非选区议员的决定。本党也同意东海岸集 选区候选人贝理安先生出任非选区议员。另外，若国会依法决议填补李丽连女士空出的议席，本党认同推举吴佩松博士出任非选区议员。根据相关法条和选举结果， 下一名最具资格担任非选区议员的人选应该来自工人党东海岸集选区的团队。第十三届国会在1月15日开幕后，必须决定是否填补非选区议员议席的空缺。


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[h=5]The Workers' Party[/h]January 5 at 9:50pm ·


"We need to be a nation of innovators, a nation of entrepreneurs. We have to be founding our own MNCs and not just working for MNCs. That kind of confidence will cut along the same grain as being economically competitive." [URL="https://www.facebook.com/Leon-Perera-515366291954885/"]Leon Perera
Leon shares his views on Singapore's narrative, our economic competitiveness and policies, and more in CNA's Year in Review. Watch the full episode here, or skip to 4:03, 12:29, 17:16, 23:20, 27:45, 32:22, 40:57, 43:25, and 44:34 to hear his views.




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"AHTC welcomes the Court’s rejection of the submission of the Attorney-General’s Chambers (representing MND & HDB) that AHTC’s conduct of its defence during the course of the hearings at the High Court and at the Court of Appeal was egregious and somehow improper." Pritam Singh





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