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[h=2]Attack On Blockheads II[/h]
January 12th, 2013 |
Author: Contributions
If you still harbour positive thoughts about human nature the way WP is responding to SDP should dispel any positive notion of it.
In my recent article ‘Attack On Blockheads”, I wrote that power corrupts and the mere whiff of it is intoxicating.
All the heavy lifting after the last GE has been done by the netizens and WP has been doing all it could to avoid land mines by not speaking up on national issues but instead concentrated on Town Council matters. The recent AIMGATE emanated from a Town Council issue.
All of us are well aware that the Singapore vehicle is in need of a major overhaul but WP is insisting – by its cooperative silence on national issues – only cosmetic colour makeover will do.
No one is denying that bread and butter issues of Town Council are important to the residents that voted them into parliament. But if WP’s idea of rescuing Singaporeans from the clutch of an oppressive government is merely to give it a different shade of color with some minor tweaking – an infamous policy of the ruling party – here and there, we are all in for a rude shock the day WP is in the driver’s seat.
SDP by going into the fray in the forthcoming By-Election will only make the job of unseating PAP much harder for the Opposition parties. It is most unwise for them to do this but my personal thoughts on the matter is CSJ is wise to the direction WP is taking. And this political manoeuvre by SDP calling for talks on avoiding multi-corner fights is designed to cast a light on the political direction WP is heading: a warning perhaps to the rest of Singaporean the devil you don’t know may be bigger than the one you do know.
It bears reminding that as opprobrious as the ruling party may be, it is the wrong road to take if WP takes the high road now, and insists it is the heir apparent to take over the ruling party while brooking no other political parties to stand in its way in achieving total domination of local polity.
In this scenario we will merely be replacing the devil we know with the devil we don’t.
What the WP should do at this juncture is to take this opportunity to organise a gathering of all the Opposition parties, without any prior terms and conditions, to come to an agreement over who should contest the Ponggol East ward. At the same time there should also be a general agreement over which political party should be contesting which ward, etc. in the GE 2016. The reason why it should be done now is because during GE 2016 there wouldn’t be enough time to come to any agreement without messy and unseemly public altercation.
Yes, there will be plenty of horse trading and compromises but it should be done now if ever the Opposition parties wish to avoid votes splitting in GE 2016. Failure on the part of the WP to take the initiative – not leadership – to organise a meeting of all Opposition parties to plan a strategic assault on the ruling party stranglehold on Singapore will only give detractors plenty of ammunition to create a divided Opposition.
I stand by what I have written in my previous article: “Unfortunately, politics, being what it is, is an ugly beast and I do not foresee the WP as having enough common sense to take the initiative now to avoid unpleasant conflicts among Opposition parties during GE 2016.”
Power corrupts and the mere whiff of it is intoxicating!
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Rare Insight
In my recent article ‘Attack On Blockheads”, I wrote that power corrupts and the mere whiff of it is intoxicating.
All the heavy lifting after the last GE has been done by the netizens and WP has been doing all it could to avoid land mines by not speaking up on national issues but instead concentrated on Town Council matters. The recent AIMGATE emanated from a Town Council issue.
All of us are well aware that the Singapore vehicle is in need of a major overhaul but WP is insisting – by its cooperative silence on national issues – only cosmetic colour makeover will do.
No one is denying that bread and butter issues of Town Council are important to the residents that voted them into parliament. But if WP’s idea of rescuing Singaporeans from the clutch of an oppressive government is merely to give it a different shade of color with some minor tweaking – an infamous policy of the ruling party – here and there, we are all in for a rude shock the day WP is in the driver’s seat.
SDP by going into the fray in the forthcoming By-Election will only make the job of unseating PAP much harder for the Opposition parties. It is most unwise for them to do this but my personal thoughts on the matter is CSJ is wise to the direction WP is taking. And this political manoeuvre by SDP calling for talks on avoiding multi-corner fights is designed to cast a light on the political direction WP is heading: a warning perhaps to the rest of Singaporean the devil you don’t know may be bigger than the one you do know.
It bears reminding that as opprobrious as the ruling party may be, it is the wrong road to take if WP takes the high road now, and insists it is the heir apparent to take over the ruling party while brooking no other political parties to stand in its way in achieving total domination of local polity.
In this scenario we will merely be replacing the devil we know with the devil we don’t.
What the WP should do at this juncture is to take this opportunity to organise a gathering of all the Opposition parties, without any prior terms and conditions, to come to an agreement over who should contest the Ponggol East ward. At the same time there should also be a general agreement over which political party should be contesting which ward, etc. in the GE 2016. The reason why it should be done now is because during GE 2016 there wouldn’t be enough time to come to any agreement without messy and unseemly public altercation.
Yes, there will be plenty of horse trading and compromises but it should be done now if ever the Opposition parties wish to avoid votes splitting in GE 2016. Failure on the part of the WP to take the initiative – not leadership – to organise a meeting of all Opposition parties to plan a strategic assault on the ruling party stranglehold on Singapore will only give detractors plenty of ammunition to create a divided Opposition.
I stand by what I have written in my previous article: “Unfortunately, politics, being what it is, is an ugly beast and I do not foresee the WP as having enough common sense to take the initiative now to avoid unpleasant conflicts among Opposition parties during GE 2016.”
Power corrupts and the mere whiff of it is intoxicating!
.
Rare Insight
