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The team simply has no reach because of a lack of resources -- manpower -- to cover the ground and reach most HDB households. Additionally, RP had no branding. Where people might be aware of the branding, it is generally not a very positive perception of it.

Not really a case of people having not woken up. All are awake. The basic problem for minor parties like RP & SingFirst is their lack of resources -- material and manpower. Now that RP has been given the right to a straight fight at AMK GRC it would be a miracle if its candidates and party...

This posting has realism to it, although it is still very much early days. The only thing that needs to be said though is that if, after the GE, WP is the only alternative party standing with parliamentary seats then we should simply refer to PAP and WP, in the same way that in the UK they...

This is quite possible. As I've said a few times publicly, there is a real possibility that the PAP's popular vote might edge up even as WP snags more seats. A lot of the minor parties have yet to get a grip on reality. Just because WP made a breakthrough in 2011 does not mean everyone else...

Everyone has a personal wish list. Most of the time it is divorced from reality.

Someone I was talking to about the date of the GE made an observation about SingFirst -- that many of its members were either retirees or ex-PAP grassroots people.

http://www.straitstimes.com/politics/opposition-parties-ready-especially-wp-and-sdp

The main issue is that with the exception of WP the other alternative parties have little going for them. I am not expecting any of them to win any electoral division (whether SMC or GRC); the only exception would be SPP in Potong Pasir, i.e., if it is not absorbed into a GRC or broken up by...

Almost all have a lack of branding. And personalities do not equate to branding except in one case, and in that one case it is a negative.

So, the lad in his latest blog post has retracted his apology and has now begun turning on his “supporters”. I am hardly surprised. Many of these supporters are now keeping a low profile. Not only do they have egg, but an entire omelette, on their collective faces. Given that the supporters...

This lad [Amos Yee] must have read the manual on movie screenwriting as he likes to inject cliffhangers in whatever he says. In the three days that he has set aside for the drafting of his apology he can also come up with names of anyone who had instigated him to put together that incendiary...

He was allowed to emerge from bankruptcy by just paying 6% of the damages awarded. That should speak for itself.

Jeremy Chen resigns from the SDP; an SDP official gives the party's side as to what happened January 28, 2015 at 10:05pm, Facebook An assistant secretary-general of the SDP, Mr Christopher Ang, has listed a number of reasons why the party had some issues with Mr Jeremy Chen -- who has now...

This highlights the vast gulf between giving a speech before a friendly audience, where one will get cheers and applause, on the one hand, and giving a robust speech in Parliament, where one will draw a very hostile response, on the other. As to the second, the person could be politically...

As a general observation: A person who often goes overseas to speak at conferences tends to work on the assumption that: (1) the audience would be friendly, and (2) most, if not all, the people in the audience would NOT know what is happening politically back home. Occasionally, he gets into...

Prof Darden has raised an issue that all parliamentary democracies grapple with. For instance, in the UK, the main broadcasters are currently deciding which parties should be invited for a leaders' debate. Back in the 2010 UK GE, only the leaders of the 3 main parties were invited. However...

“In what sense are you the opposition, right? Cause on some level you’ve failed electorally, right? We do have an opposition out there, as was pointed out [by the previous questioner], which is the Workers’ Party who, apparently, were not invited.” You might think that these remarks –...

The likelihood is that WP will gain more parliamentary seats. But the other non-PAP entities are unlikely to come even close. The above of course differs with the virtual reality of cyberspace.

Ling How Doong.

Yes, As I had mentioned in a previous Note, the only area of collaboration would be between the two parties that have had overlapping claims to a straight fight with the PAP based on the last GE. These are WP & NSP. As of now I do not see NSP being able to take down Tampines GRC, but a...