If you were to form a political party and voted into power one day, what is your grand vision for Singapore?
On the topic of vision, I think SDP stood out. Their political vision for Singapore more or less remains consistent since CSJ took over. Its party members are often the aggrieved lot who had bad encouters with the incumbent. They have CSJ who feels he has suffered political persecution, Teo Soh Lung who feels she suffered injustice in the eighties, Vincent Wijeysingha who might feel discriminated over his orientation & probably fighting for equal rights, former member TJS who has an axe to grind against his former paymasters over lack of promotional aspects,Jufri Mahmood is a former Special Branch officer who got into trouble over his outspoken views, Jame Gomez who was hantamed and shamed by the PAP in 2006 over the CCTv footage in the elections department.
Perhaps due to the congregation of these aggrieved, SDP has a vision to fight for equal rights and civil liberties, and they are more forgiving and compassionate. Notice the age group of these I've mentioned? They belong to the < 1970s generation and they will brings their battle to the next generation of SDP activists.
SDP has always sought for better social net and welfare for the underpriveilged and they have some good ideas such as promoting internal town feeder bus system. But when it comes to the bigger picture such as defence or diplomacy, they are naive to come up with concepts such as promoting better ties with nations to reduce interstate tensions and reliance on USA for military support so that defence budget could be reduced. Isn't diplomacy is all about putting up a false smile? Other naive idea such as setting of "Independent commissions" to look over various issues. I believe there's no such thing as "Independent" and they are only usually used in peacekeeping or wartorn states!
I'm not sure whether I've mentioned this but I believe SDP is better off if they were to be a charity organisation.
WP's Chen Show Mao was disadvantaged in his tertiary education in his earlier years due to PAP's policies; he managed to enter the parliament but he has never blame or openly questioned the PAP over his past or use plight as an issue to campaign against the PAP, unlike the SDP.
Apart from SDP and WP, other political parties do not really have a grand vision, apart from getting into parliament.
I am interested to hear what Goh Meng Seng says, afterall, he's our resident forumer who has vast political experiences.
On the topic of vision, I think SDP stood out. Their political vision for Singapore more or less remains consistent since CSJ took over. Its party members are often the aggrieved lot who had bad encouters with the incumbent. They have CSJ who feels he has suffered political persecution, Teo Soh Lung who feels she suffered injustice in the eighties, Vincent Wijeysingha who might feel discriminated over his orientation & probably fighting for equal rights, former member TJS who has an axe to grind against his former paymasters over lack of promotional aspects,Jufri Mahmood is a former Special Branch officer who got into trouble over his outspoken views, Jame Gomez who was hantamed and shamed by the PAP in 2006 over the CCTv footage in the elections department.
Perhaps due to the congregation of these aggrieved, SDP has a vision to fight for equal rights and civil liberties, and they are more forgiving and compassionate. Notice the age group of these I've mentioned? They belong to the < 1970s generation and they will brings their battle to the next generation of SDP activists.
SDP has always sought for better social net and welfare for the underpriveilged and they have some good ideas such as promoting internal town feeder bus system. But when it comes to the bigger picture such as defence or diplomacy, they are naive to come up with concepts such as promoting better ties with nations to reduce interstate tensions and reliance on USA for military support so that defence budget could be reduced. Isn't diplomacy is all about putting up a false smile? Other naive idea such as setting of "Independent commissions" to look over various issues. I believe there's no such thing as "Independent" and they are only usually used in peacekeeping or wartorn states!
I'm not sure whether I've mentioned this but I believe SDP is better off if they were to be a charity organisation.
WP's Chen Show Mao was disadvantaged in his tertiary education in his earlier years due to PAP's policies; he managed to enter the parliament but he has never blame or openly questioned the PAP over his past or use plight as an issue to campaign against the PAP, unlike the SDP.
Apart from SDP and WP, other political parties do not really have a grand vision, apart from getting into parliament.
I am interested to hear what Goh Meng Seng says, afterall, he's our resident forumer who has vast political experiences.
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