Recent content by mrmonkey

Seems our political observers and pundits, or whatever you call those blokes who regularly get quoted on TV and the newspapers, have always steered clear of this subject. The PAP appear as a singular, monolithic, impenetrable organisation in the common imagination but as with any large...

Singaporeans Vote In By-Election As Lee Seeks To Regain Support By Shamim Adam - 2012-05-25T16:00:01Z Bloomberg News Singaporeans vote in a by-election today that will test whether Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is winning back support after the ruling party’s poorest performance at polls...

More at stake here than the MIW are letting on.... Singapore holds keenly-watched by-election BBC More than 20,000 residents of Hougang constituency in the island's northeast are eligible to vote. They will be choosing between the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) candidate Desmond Choo...

dude, I am telling you as it is here, not what it is meant to be........:)

I think GMS is endorsing WP simply because he thinks it will win. :)

I suspect the margins will be within +- 5% of the previous.

WP is going to win. Think that is a no-brainer. Hougang as a 20 years long opposition bastion, is unlikely to be be retaken by the PAP with it's rather lame no-issue/smear-based campaign. There is simply no enough incentives to change drastically, no push or pull to move voters strongly...

There has to be some kind of consolidation at some stage. Politics is a winner takes all game. If WP continues to win seats, some of the smaller parties will go the way of the PKMS or Justice Party. Does anyone even know what these parties stand for, apart from being anti-PAP?

I find cooling off day very uncool leh...how in the world can they justify this? Singapore is boring enough as it is. We need the excitement.

What are the real reasons for it?

What was the justification for such a strange idea? Is this a practice found elsewhere too......or is it a PAP "political Innovation". What political advantages does it give the incumbent party anyway? Does it eat into the already very short 9 day campaigning period? Can the voters...

And I thought they would respond better to incentives...:) I prefer a goodies guy to a good guy...but that's just me.

They had started with intentions of fighting the BE based on local issues ie win the Hougang over with $$$ and improvements. It's a combination of pork barrel politics and a deliberate attempt at downplay or avoidance of prominent national issues (eg immigration policies) which may be...

Assuming that both PAP and the WP would turn to Mr Goh for advice.........:).

You guys have greatly indulged our portly Mr Goh by mentioning him together with LKY in the same sentence. :)