1. LHL may be elated to think that it is going to be a 4CF fight at PE BE...PAP vs WP vs SDP vs RP. LHL wld think that his prayer has been answered and wld lower his guard ..sure PAP win..and go in for the by-election sooner rather than later.
2. Now will WP be more willing to discuss with SDP and RP on election trade-offs for the BE and also for the next GE in order to avoid 4CF?
3. SDP and RP come out of this riding high on magnanimity, giving in to Opposition Unity for the sake of SG and Singaporeans and also getting concessions from WP for the next GE allocation.
4. Is there a possiblity that LHL will be complacent now and PE BE will be called in Mar 2013?
5. To PAP's shock on Nomination Day..contest between PAP and WP only...SDP and RP stating that they are not contesting PE BE for the sake of Opposition Unity and are backing WP? Shocker for LHL and LHL looks silly again?
So this RP and SDP throwing in their hats now may be a master stroke to tie LHL's hands...the ball is in LHL's court now.
Is 4CF real or just a bait? LHL wld look doubly silly to still not dare call for a PE BE despite this "declared" 4CF contest. He will not be able to face anyone if he chickens out from this 4CF BE..so the main loser maybe LHL...Dont call BE despite 4CF, LHL sure die. Call BE in 2013, can fall into RP, SDP trap and PAP suffers humiliating defeat at the hands of WP also no face..
So shd LHL quickly call for BE soon ?
Well done, SDP, RP and WP.
I look forward to PE BE Nomination Day to see how this BE turns out.
I am convinced that even many PAP supporters are secretly cheering for an Opposition win at PE BE
you mean like this master stroke ???
http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=6824
Ever since GE2006, Mr Low Thia Khiang has contemplated stepping out of his Hougang stronghold and venturing into a GRC. To opposition insiders, it was common knowledge. But everyone knew the enormous risk involved.
Every single factor must align up precisely right in order to justify such a huge undertaking — national sentiment, the presence of top notch candidates in WP, the correct party branding, etc. It is only when the ground is deemed sufficiently sweet that Mr Low would dare make such a commitment.
The final decision would come only after the revised electoral boundaries were released in February 2011. It was then that Mr Low made the final decision to contest with Sylvia Lim and newcomer Chen Show Mao in Aljunied GRC.
A disinformation campaign that took forever to implement was initiated by a tight inner circle in WP. Even party faithfuls and cadres were kept in the dark about Mr Low’s true plans.
Painstakingly, “inside information” that Low Thia Khiang would contest in either Moulmein-Kallang or Nee Soon GRC was leaked out from the top echelons within WP. The idea was that Mr Low would try to take down one of these GRCs on his own, while Chen Show Mao and Sylvia Lim would try to take down Aljunied. The WP goal, it was purported, would be to make political history by winning 2 GRCs in a single election.
This misinformation was spread to the PAP moles who took the poison back to their masters.
Even National Solidarity Party’s Goh Meng Seng was in on the disinformation campaign. He pretended to initiate a quarrel with WP over Moulmein-Kallang, when actually the intrepid Sec-Gen had already decided quite early on in the horse-trading that it would let WP contest there.
At a crucial stage in the game, Mr Goh Meng Seng threw WP an impossible curveball: Send either Mr Low or Ms Sylvia Lim to Moulmein-Kallang, and NSP will give up the constituency to WP.
Mr Goh’s purpose in doing so was the reinforce the disinformation campaign that Mr Low was planning to contest in Moulmein-Kallang.
By that time, PAP grassroots volunteers and even members of the PAP Aljunied team had been thrown off track. They knew Mr Low would come out to contest a GRC, but they never expected it would be Aljunied.
Then, on the fateful morning of 27 April, Mr Low Thia Khiang boarded the wrong bus to the wrong nomination centre, and the rest, as they say, is history.