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[h=2]WP touches heart of Hougang residents.[/h]
<DL class=userinfo_extra><DT>Join Date <DD>Feb 2011 </DD><DT>Posts <DD>60 </DD></DL>
[h=2]WP touches heart of Hougang residents.[/h]
Read this from http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/workers-party-routs-pap-again/
mirax 27 May 2012 at 01:28
I have lived in Hougang for 25 years and voted for the WP since 1991. I am minority race and not a member of any political party.
What led me to vote for LTK in 1991 was the number of times he ended up on my doorstep and the time he spent actually talking to me about my concerns. The PAP candidate never turned up, the grassroots activitists who did were actually offputting in their officiousness and obsequiousness for the PAP candidate.
If you live in Hougang, you will see how much work the WP puts into íts presence on the ground. LTK and PEH are at the coffeeshops, funeral wakes, other events round the year. Let me give you one example of the responsiveness of the WP/LTK. My brother died unexpectedly in 2010. Seeing my bereaved family members at the void deck of BLK 701 where the Hougang Town Council is located, LTK made inquiries. Next thing we know, within hours, a funeral wreath arrived from the HTC. We were nothing to the WP or LTK, just very ordinary residents. It was a heartwarming gesture and my family in turn wrote a letter to the HTC thanking it for its thoughtfulness.
That’s a small example why the residents of Hougang are wildly celebrating on the streets tonight as if they have won the world cup. I live in avenue 5 now and the spirit is indescribable. The cheers rang loud until past midnight. You can’t buy exuberance like that with free porridge or toilets or upgrading.
There’s a lesson in this for the other political parties. I understand and support where the SDP is coming from when it speaks about the erosion of civil liberties in Singapore. But it is somewhat cringe-inducing to watch SDP members singing “we shall overcome” as they attempt a protest march out of Honglim Green. It has the feel of a stunt staged for an audience that is not part of my milieu in Hougang ave 5, it doesnt stir the heart or seize the soul the way the ”illegal assembly” of a few thousand people on Ave 5 did tonight. The police were there in force but didnt dare touch anyone.
FYI my deceased brother was an inactive member of the young pap and 3 months after he died we received a letter from the PAP demanding that he pay up his overdue membership fees! (You have to see this to believe it.)
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Oh my gosh, has not the Young PAP not enough admin helpers to prevent such matters? But maybe because his was inactive so he was under the radar.
mirax 27 May 2012 at 01:28
I have lived in Hougang for 25 years and voted for the WP since 1991. I am minority race and not a member of any political party.
What led me to vote for LTK in 1991 was the number of times he ended up on my doorstep and the time he spent actually talking to me about my concerns. The PAP candidate never turned up, the grassroots activitists who did were actually offputting in their officiousness and obsequiousness for the PAP candidate.
If you live in Hougang, you will see how much work the WP puts into íts presence on the ground. LTK and PEH are at the coffeeshops, funeral wakes, other events round the year. Let me give you one example of the responsiveness of the WP/LTK. My brother died unexpectedly in 2010. Seeing my bereaved family members at the void deck of BLK 701 where the Hougang Town Council is located, LTK made inquiries. Next thing we know, within hours, a funeral wreath arrived from the HTC. We were nothing to the WP or LTK, just very ordinary residents. It was a heartwarming gesture and my family in turn wrote a letter to the HTC thanking it for its thoughtfulness.
That’s a small example why the residents of Hougang are wildly celebrating on the streets tonight as if they have won the world cup. I live in avenue 5 now and the spirit is indescribable. The cheers rang loud until past midnight. You can’t buy exuberance like that with free porridge or toilets or upgrading.
There’s a lesson in this for the other political parties. I understand and support where the SDP is coming from when it speaks about the erosion of civil liberties in Singapore. But it is somewhat cringe-inducing to watch SDP members singing “we shall overcome” as they attempt a protest march out of Honglim Green. It has the feel of a stunt staged for an audience that is not part of my milieu in Hougang ave 5, it doesnt stir the heart or seize the soul the way the ”illegal assembly” of a few thousand people on Ave 5 did tonight. The police were there in force but didnt dare touch anyone.
FYI my deceased brother was an inactive member of the young pap and 3 months after he died we received a letter from the PAP demanding that he pay up his overdue membership fees! (You have to see this to believe it.)
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Oh my gosh, has not the Young PAP not enough admin helpers to prevent such matters? But maybe because his was inactive so he was under the radar.
