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PAP in Hougang

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THBF was spot on when he pointed out that Eugene helped set the stage with Chris de Souza closing Act 1 of the Hougang Stage Play. This was long before Ravi dragged in a vulnerable wife of a certified alcoholic undergoing treatment into this game. If people cared to look into this deeper, Ravi also mischieviously inserted a paragraph In his affadavit seeking answers on YSL's conduct.

Now here is the latest.

1. The law is going to be amended and the PM made it absolutely clear in parliament. That change will not result in a BE where MP in a GRC kicks the bucket as in Ong Chit Chung and Balaji or if an MP is kicked out of a GRC team by his Party or by a court conviction.

2. The courts will uphold the interpretation of AG, or the interpetation of the 2 AGs, past and present. The Court cannot usurp parliament and cannot give it a meaning more than intended. It was intentionally framed with the original purpose of stopping party hopping as in Barisan.

3. PAP has internally conceded that it will not regain Hougang which is not a surprise to anyone. 2 decades of incumbency, 14 % margin and the big bold and in your face fact that it was the Workers Party that kicked out a wayward MP, showing political courage and being honest with the people must count to something immense.

4. PAP can go thru the motions of sending Desmond Choo a round the park again but this chap is no ordinary MP wannabe. This is the nephew of an ex PAP MP and convict who looks like he is going to check into Changi once again. A serious matter when the whole BE is due to misconduct. I am sure the BS about sins of the uncle visiting the nephew does not hold water to the blurfucks but this is image and party image comes first. Now the 2 plans.

5. Firstly plan B, which is to send Desmond around the park one more time. No addtional effort, PAP looks good as it seem to understand and appreciate the concept of democracy. The PM has a chance to say that he listens to people, his apology was genuine and pigs fly. Low costs, and when parliament reconvenes, shooting at the ankles of WP MPs in particular GG, Pritam etc with huge and passionate supporting fire from Goh Meng Seng. The new WP might also be ripe to join the shooting gallery on the wrong side. And no dbout, the one man machine gun team of GMS will be happy to join in.

6. Plan A is to introduce and blood a potential minister. This has huge support from PAP inner core and I don't mean the party faithful or the car door opening cadres. A by election with no hope of winning is an excellent opportunity to showcase the fighting spirit of a potential cabinet minister and a heavy hitter. It also addresses and maybe dispel to some extent the perennial comment about riding on the coat-tails of an anchor MP.

7. Plan A can only work if party faithful and the cocksucking leaches of PAP Hougang branch and PA community grassroot lowlives do not feel disenfranchised. Ong Ke Yung would be ideal because of his father's roots but a potential minister failing twice at the polls and then facing GE 2016 is not a good profile. Thus a new horse with great pedigree is on the cards. And the man pushing this barrow was in a similar position in Marine Parade years ago.

8. The planning is strickly confined and even the branch sec, the most powerful man on the ground is not in the loop.

This snippet has not been made possible by a generous grant from IPS.
 
I'm guessing it would be DC, the man is expendable and besides whether he becomes a MP or not, it has not lessen his grassroot standing and the benefits of becoming a grassroot advisor (defacto no. 1 PAP man in the constituency). There must be a certain amount of compensation in becoming a grassroot leader though not sure if he has enough directorships in Temasek/GLC linked companies.

For OYK to lose twice in 2 elections would be a huge amount of embarrasment if nothing more to raise his profile for GE 2016. You did not mention Plan C - procrastinate and drag this till the next or one-two years before the next GE to gauge the ground. So there is no plan C after all?
 
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My guess is it will be high profile candidate that has not be unveiled before.

For OYK to lose twice in 2 elections would be a huge amount of embarrasment if nothing more to raise his profile for GE 2016. You did not mention Plan C - procrastinate and drag this till the next or one-two years before the next GE to gauge the ground. So there is no plan C after all?
 
Throwing a high profile candidate into the lion's den may be a way to test the waters. Bets will be he'll still lose but with improved margins at the expense of WP.
 
Good point. I am sure that it will be egg on their face if the margin widens and with Desmond Choo, it will be possible.

Throwing a high profile candidate into the lion's den may be a way to test the waters. Bets will be he'll still lose but with improved margins at the expense of WP.
 
Although DC is the instant maggie mee ready for use anytime, dishing out an expensive dish to gain some grounds is not impossible. After all, they have all the resources and manpower at their disposal to play around. I suspect they might use a marginal increase in votes in this BE, if happens, as indicator of a positive response from the people towards their promised effort to change and do better since the last election. Of course, Shitty Times will be on standby to print in big header fonts, interviews from residents who sing praises about PAP. As for the inputs on how screwed WP is, GMS has left enough blood trails for them to pick up and amplify. :D
 
Throwing a high profile candidate into the lion's den may be a way to test the waters. Bets will be he'll still lose but with improved margins at the expense of WP.

Col Nelson Yau, Chief Guards Officer just resigned from SAF whilst heading this year's NDP Parade EXCO for "personal reasons". Candidate?
 
Never heard of him. I wish him luck. If he was on a good traject in his erstwhile SAF career, then he might not be able to go back to it when he loses in HG (I dont even use the IF). I have heard of acting vice school principals promoted to Principals to go into elections, but when they lost, they ended up in cul-de-sacs, where the Old man has left behind his machete for you to commit hara-kiri.

Col Nelson Yau, Chief Guards Officer just resigned from SAF whilst heading this year's NDP Parade EXCO for "personal reasons". Candidate?
 
You might be right. Resigned from post but not from the organisation.

Col Nelson Yau, Chief Guards Officer just resigned from SAF whilst heading this year's NDP Parade EXCO for "personal reasons". Candidate?
 
Nelson will be leaving SAF for "health and family" reasons. He is not a candidate for HG.
PAP is not keen to win back HG. They will use it as battleground for in-fighting amongst all Opp parties to surface. DC will be the PAP's candidate, unless he backs out.

Whole idea is to see WP influence being reduced to tatters with plenty of "candidates" fighting for the seat. PAP will be focusing on who is WP's candidate and dig up dirt to be delivered thru one more round of "yaw-gate" like expose on the candidate.

WP will be doomed if they let that happen...
 
Nelson will be leaving SAF for "health and family" reasons. He is not a candidate for HG.

Rather unusual for a person holding this type of appointment and handling a major national event (with only 3+ months to first round of performances) to quit for family reasons unless he is suffering from a major illness that incapacitates him from performing his duties.
 
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