I am quite a fan of Dr Vincent Wijeysingha,despite his personal lifestyle. He is eloquent, has fire in the belly, and he is someone who can bring attention to the Singaporeans who have been overlooked by the PAP's GDP first policy. I am sure it is partly due to his efforts that the PAP is changing. For those who question his gay lifestyle, I say this to you, is it better to be openly gay or secretly desire for another grown man's ass? Ahmad Mattar? The gays can lick other grown-up man's ass for all they want, but please leave the impressionable teenagers boys and kids alone.
Dr Vincent's popularity with the electorate has definitely surpassed Dr Chee. I questioned before whether is Dr Chee relevant to SDP becaus he brought SDP to nowhere. Since his emergence in GE2011, Dr Vincent has almost become synonymous with SDP.It was Vincent who revived SDP, not Dr Chee. Someone here mentioned that Dr Vincent was the SDP candidate in the Puggol East by election .
Recently Dr Vincent has announced that he resigned from SDP . Why SDP did not persuade him to stay? I read that Dr Vincent wants to contribute to civil society and SDP was disappointed by the decision. SDP statement is odd - it said that Dr Vincent has expressed desire to get more involved in human rights and more effective to do so as non-SDP member.Is SDP saying that in the past, they were less involved in human rights issues and SDP was not a political party involved in human rights and SDP was ineffective in human rights the past?
Very very strange words from SDP.
I look around SDP websites and discovered that SDP is going to launch a Malay policy paper soon. The situation is now clearer- Dr Vincent Wijeysingha was ousted from SDP. Malays, mostly being religious and conservatives are not able to accept a prominent openly homosexual politician or a gay party.SDP's chairman Jufrie Mahmood is a Malay and they are a very closely knitted community. He surely knows what his own people are saying.
SDP is now going to abandon its human rights causes, its liberal roots, and going to court the Malay votes, which is a larger pie of the electorate. SDP is now going populist. I am convinced that the popularity of Dr Vincent (surpassing Dr Chee) and the courting of the Malay votes led to the "resignation" of Dr Vincent.
Dr Vincent should openly question SDP and its leaders. It was Dr Vincent who brought SDP to a whole new level of popularity. It was him who joined SDP as he had trust in SDP's core values. But how things have changed and SDP dumped him like a used dirty rag.
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SINGAPORE: Dr Vincent Wijeysingha on Wednesday announced his resignation from the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) to pursue his work in civil society.
Writing on his Facebook page, Dr Wijeysingha feels that as a nation, Singaporeans have a limited appreciation of civil liberties. He noted that his Facebook post about his sexuality had attracted some debate on these rights.
He has thus decided to participate in the more intangible but no less important work to promote civil liberties.
In a separate statement, SDP's Chairman Jufrie Mahmud said Dr Wijeysingha has expressed his desire to get more involved in human rights issues, and that he finds it more effective to do it as an activist in the civil society arena.
Mr Jufrie said while the SDP is disappointed at this outcome, the party fully supports Dr Wijeysingha's position and the party's loss is civil society's gain.
Dr Vincent's popularity with the electorate has definitely surpassed Dr Chee. I questioned before whether is Dr Chee relevant to SDP becaus he brought SDP to nowhere. Since his emergence in GE2011, Dr Vincent has almost become synonymous with SDP.It was Vincent who revived SDP, not Dr Chee. Someone here mentioned that Dr Vincent was the SDP candidate in the Puggol East by election .
Recently Dr Vincent has announced that he resigned from SDP . Why SDP did not persuade him to stay? I read that Dr Vincent wants to contribute to civil society and SDP was disappointed by the decision. SDP statement is odd - it said that Dr Vincent has expressed desire to get more involved in human rights and more effective to do so as non-SDP member.Is SDP saying that in the past, they were less involved in human rights issues and SDP was not a political party involved in human rights and SDP was ineffective in human rights the past?
Very very strange words from SDP.
I look around SDP websites and discovered that SDP is going to launch a Malay policy paper soon. The situation is now clearer- Dr Vincent Wijeysingha was ousted from SDP. Malays, mostly being religious and conservatives are not able to accept a prominent openly homosexual politician or a gay party.SDP's chairman Jufrie Mahmood is a Malay and they are a very closely knitted community. He surely knows what his own people are saying.
SDP is now going to abandon its human rights causes, its liberal roots, and going to court the Malay votes, which is a larger pie of the electorate. SDP is now going populist. I am convinced that the popularity of Dr Vincent (surpassing Dr Chee) and the courting of the Malay votes led to the "resignation" of Dr Vincent.
Dr Vincent should openly question SDP and its leaders. It was Dr Vincent who brought SDP to a whole new level of popularity. It was him who joined SDP as he had trust in SDP's core values. But how things have changed and SDP dumped him like a used dirty rag.
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SINGAPORE: Dr Vincent Wijeysingha on Wednesday announced his resignation from the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) to pursue his work in civil society.
Writing on his Facebook page, Dr Wijeysingha feels that as a nation, Singaporeans have a limited appreciation of civil liberties. He noted that his Facebook post about his sexuality had attracted some debate on these rights.
He has thus decided to participate in the more intangible but no less important work to promote civil liberties.
In a separate statement, SDP's Chairman Jufrie Mahmud said Dr Wijeysingha has expressed his desire to get more involved in human rights issues, and that he finds it more effective to do it as an activist in the civil society arena.
Mr Jufrie said while the SDP is disappointed at this outcome, the party fully supports Dr Wijeysingha's position and the party's loss is civil society's gain.
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