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It's not so important whether some dumb things were said in that letter, and it's not so important whether that letter was simply scripted and Sajeev put his name to it. More important are: are the issues true, and if they are, what the fuck is WP going to do about it. Regarding the running of...

I don't think there is a doubt that they had a problem with minorities. The only question for me is whether this problem is still on-going or whether they have solved it. Singapore opted to go down the road of non-race based politics, For better or worse, all political parties are assumed to...

http://sgpolitico.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/the-real-reasons-for-resigning-from-the-workersparty-2/ Here is an expanded, unexpurgated account of Sajeev Kamalasanan's resignation from the Worker's Party 1 year ago. He is clearly disgruntled but I don't think this is totally about the...

It seems that PR actually polled more than 50% of the entire electorate. I will have to retract what I said about "it's not clear that BN needed to cheat in order to win".

From the margin of victory, it seems as though the BN didn't need to cheat in order to win, although we'll never know. It does seem like there's a lot of anti-BN sentiment in the cities. But most of the Malaysians we know are the Chinese and the city folk, who are the most likely to vote...

When I think about Nicole I got fire in my loins.

Ha someone took the flamebait!

Yeah, Nicole's X factor is that second X chromosome, if you know what I mean. Many of us were very impressed with her during the GE but when she endorsed Tan Jee Say during the PE, I was thinking, "what the fuck is that idiot doing?" To be fair to her, a lot of opposition people, including...

Yawn, another discussion where sgparent doesn't know when to shut up and stop quarrelling...

Let's think about the idea of branding. A brand is a hot iron to singe a pattern onto cattle so that cattle ranchers could identify whose cow belonged to whom. Branding is also something that reinforces the herd mentality. "Vote PAP and everything will be alright" or "Vote WP and everything will...

OK - except that for Singapore, immigration is new, whereas corruption has always existed in Malaysia for decades. What really changed in Malaysia? When I was walking into the GE 2011 polls it was my first time voting, and I thought that this was the last time I would go to the polls knowing...

In no small part the 6.9 million population issue are housing and transport issues. Anyway there is nothing really wrong with what Goh Meng Seng is saying. The anti-PAP sentiment goes beyond support for opposition parties. There is a new player in the game, the extra-political, NGO-based...

I don't think there's anything hateful about saying that a person is gay. But I take issue with you calling him the first gay minister of Singapore. He will be the first gay minister of Singapore who is operating out of the closet. He is most probably not the first *cough*ahmadmattar *cough*...

It's totally different today. This talk of opposition unity came up because of lessons learnt during the mistakes of those times. If you want to say, there was no opposition unity in 1997, and therefore there is no opposition unity today, then most likely you have an even worse understanding of...

I have something to say about that. For the longest time, LTK would not touch on "opposition unity". His comment was no comment. It was just something you didn't talk about. His hand was forced by Chee Soon Juan's brainfart. He understands something. Opposition unity is like polygamy. Just...

Well Chee Soon Juan back then was the leader of a party with 3 seats in parliament for a very very short time. He's probably in a situation where LTK is in right now. And he got his priorities totally wrong because at that time he was fighting Chiam See Tong. As for what his relationship with...

SDP doesn't understand what opposition unity is all about. What they should do is just shut the hell up, work the ground, get a couple of seats in parliament. Then they'll be more than 2 parties in parliament. In fact right now there are. How's Lina Chiam doing? This thing about opposition unity...

I can't believe you're saying this. Like I said before, I want SDP to do well, but you comparing SDP to Obama reflects a lack of understanding of political reality. If there is anybody who is like Obama, it is the Worker's party. Obama is a centrist. Much like you say WP paid lip service to the...

I don't think there's jealousy. Other political parties know that if WP takes off in a big way and leaves them behind, then they will be finished. Well, this will not happen for another two cycles. WP can win 20, maybe 30 seats and there will still be room for another political party in...

The PAP have a few likeable people, like Lily Neo, Tharman, Heng See Keat, Chan Chun Sing. And I wouldn't call Koh Poh Koon unlikeable, he just popped up at the wrong time. In the old cabinet you could see people like Richard Hu, Goh Chok Tong, Ong Teng Cheong, Dhanabalan, Jayakumar, they...