History of Opposition "Champion" and Former WP idol Zeng Guoyuan

"Three hours before the nomination deadline for the [1991] general election, three Workers' Party comrades are still locked in a heated argument.

At the Colombo Court law office of WP leader J. B. Jeyaretnam, Mr Maurice Neo and Mr Mohamed Jufrie Bin Mahmood [BT: now SDP chairman] take issue with his party strategy.

The duo are opposed to Mr Jeyaretnam's longstanding practice of fielding as many candidates as he can.

They argue that the 'by-election strategy', a new opposition game plan adopted by Mr Chiam See Tong of the Singapore Democratic Party, would work better...

In the heat of the moment, Mr Neo tears up the nomination papers of one Professor Zeng Guoyuan [BT: aka Parrotman], who had the backing of Mr Jeyaretnam. 'He had a string of degrees leading up to a PhD from Sri Lanka, but he couldn't speak O-level English. No credibility whatsoever,' recalls Mr Neo, 20 years later, in an interview with Insight.

But Mr Jeyaretnam manages to rustle up another set of papers for Prof Zeng, an acupuncturist, to run in Bukit Timah. Prof Zeng would later lose in a landslide, receiving just 26 per cent of the votes to Dr Wang Kai Yuen's 73 per cent."

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HTOLAS said:

Without lending any support to Zeng, one should look into the background of Mr Maurice Neo as well.

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Char_Azn said:

Doesn't matter who this Maurice Neo is. There is no defending this guy

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Narong Wongwan said:

Voting this joker into parliament is less harmful than voting in a white scholar scum who will formulate policies to screw your backsides.

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mojito said:

Listen carefully! The Bird speaks through Prof Zeng. Heed Its words!

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Narong Wongwan said:

Voting this joker into parliament is less harmful than voting in a white scholar scum who will formulate policies to screw your backsides.

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Char_Azn said:

Doesn't matter who this Maurice Neo is. There is no defending this guy
[video=youtube;Tw78KoIf-xo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw78KoIf-xo[/video]

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moolightaffairs said:

should let this type of people go into pariahment so that more people will join oppositions. even a siao lan can be voted in as oppositions, then pap can throw in rubbish bin.

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jw5 said:

could have the opposite effect also, people see him and ask themselves whether they want to join someone like that.........

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