Dr Chee's electoral defeat was predicted some 2000 years ago:
Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home." Mark 6:4
Dr Chee, go get yourself a professorship in Yale University or Princeton or Oxford or Cambridge. Go get yourself a District 10 property with your renewed status.
When you return for election as a visiting professor from an Ivy League university, the 70% will adore you and look up to you. With prestige and status, nobody will speak about your hunger strike or taxi fare claims. Just like the media never really delved into the moral aspect of being a translator for your enemy in a war.
You have been really nice to the 30%, but the truth is you need another 21% from this pool of 70% to vote for you.
This special group of sinkies among the 70% can never be converted by appealing to noble ideals of justice, democracy or compassion. They can only be seduced, enticed or incentivized to feed their self-centerness and greed. Even their loyalty to the ruling party can be bought. Your emotional speeches about justice, democracy and compassion, however great, are worthless in the eyes of this special group of incorrigible sinkies. Don't cast your pearls before swine. True enough, they trampled them under their feet and tore SDP in pieces.