Hougang by-election 26-5-12 -- WP Png Eng Huat
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More accurately
Whats your predilection for this by-election?
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Originally posted by mancha:
More accurately
Whats your predilection for this by-election?
Does not matter.
If pappy wins, they will take it that people agree with all their policies so far and will continue to import more people and increase all sorts of taxes and fees.
If opposition retains and wins, the pappies will still continue to import moreeople to try to stem the slide in votes and will continue to increase fees and taxes because they know their time is running out.
Either way, singaporeans are still screwed.
Haiz.
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if WP can't win by bigger margin than GE....................S'pore jialat liao...............
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Originally posted by charlize:
Does not matter.
If pappy wins, they will take it that people agree with all their policies so far and will continue to import more people and increase all sorts of taxes and fees.
If opposition retains and wins, the pappies will still continue to import moreeople to try to stem the slide in votes and will continue to increase fees and taxes because they know their time is running out.
Either way, singaporeans are still screwed.
Haiz.
Times are bad
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me trust the ppl of HG
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will Tan JS take part again?
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tan ji siao
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Originally posted by Honeybunz:
if this mudderfarker join...................confirm he's a PAP stooge liao...............
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Originally posted by Honeybunz:
will Tan JS take part again?
Tan JS has declared that he will take not take part in this coming Hougang By-Election for the sake of the unity of the opposition.
It is likely that there will not be a 3 or multi-corners fight in this by- election.
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Hougang can get best of both worlds: DPM Teo
Teo Chee Hean says residents can vote PAP and be served by WPBy Ho AI Li
China Correspondent
Beijing: Hougang residents can get the “best of both worlds” if they vote in the People’s Action Party (PAP), suggested Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, as they will get two MPs for the price of one.
Turning an argument much touted by the opposition against it, he said they would be served by both the PAP’s man and Workers’ Party (WP) chef Low Thia Khiang, Hougang’s former MP of 20 years.
For years, opposition politicians have urged residents to vote them in, saying they would get “two MPs”, as the PAP’s candidates usually stayed on in the constituencies as grassroots advisers.
Now, Mr Teo was saying that Hougang’s 23,368 voters can do the same when they go to the polls on May 26.
“In a sense, they can have the best of both worlds too,” he said in an interview with the Singapore media at the end of a five-day visit here.
“They can have a good MP with integrity and commitment to serve them, and I am sure Mr Low… will continue to be associated with Hougang whether or not Workers’ Party is there.”
Besides, he added, Hougang residents are also free to vote for any candidate because they are no longer have an obligation to Mr Low, who is already in Parliament.
He noted that Mr Low, who was Hougang’s MP from 1991 to last year, returned to the ward to mingle with residents even after handing it over to Mr Yaw Shin Leong.
Said Mr Teo: “In fact, it’s an interesting situation. In a sense, voters in Hougang have shown their loyalty to him (Mr Low) and discharged their responsibilities to him by voting in the person he has entrusted Hougang to, but this person has now left.”
On Thursday, a day after the Writ of Election was issued, the two parties introduced their candidates – PAP Mr Desmond Choo and WP ‘s Mr Png Eng Huat,
The quick turn of events promoted Hougang resident Vellama Marie Muthu to withdraw a bid to get the courts to order the Prime Minister to hold a by-election within three months.
Yesterday, her lawyer M. Ravi wrote to the Attorney-General’s Chambers to withdraw the application, citing “dramatic developments of the last 48 hours”.
In his interview, Mr Teo also stressed that the by-election was a local contest – a point made by DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Thurday.
“It’s a by-election, it’s not a national election, it’s not a general election,” he said. “Of course, national issues will enter into the minds of voters when they vote. But essentially what it comes down to when you vote, you will vote for the person who will be there for you.”
Last year’s general election had seem the WP campaigning on the need for opposition voices in the legislature. But Mr Teo said this did not matter at this poll.
“Mr Low is already in Parliament. The WP has already got…five MPs and several NCMPs. So the question of whether there’s opposition in Parliament is also not at stake,” he said. WP has two Non-Constituency MPs in the House.
Mr Teo also drew a distinction between this by-election and that in 1992, when then Mr Goh Chok Tong called for a re-contest of Marine Parade GRC to bring new blood into Government.
“The last by-election that we had was an unusual by-election because it was in the PM’s ward. Of course there was also an emphasis on national issues, because the PM’s seat was at stake,“ said Mr Teo, who was himself inducted into politics during the 1992 polls. “In this case, the Government is not at stake.”
Asked if he would help Mr Choo, Mr Teo, who is the anchor minister for the neighbouring Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, replied: “If Desmond feels it’s usefully for me to go, I’m more than happy to go there and show my support for him.”
He added that both wards could work together to serve residents if Mr Choo is elected. “Whether or not he will be voted in, I think he’s really the underdog,” said Mr Teo. “Hougang residents have always had the penchant for voting in underdogs too. Who knows?”
The Straits Times, Saturday, May 12,2012
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Originally posted by M the name:
Hougang can get best of both worlds: DPM Teo
Teo Chee Hean says residents can vote PAP and be served by WPBy Ho AI Li
China Correspondent
Beijing: Hougang residents can get the “best of both worlds” if they vote in the People’s Action Party (PAP), suggested Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, as they will get two MPs for the price of one.
Turning an argument much touted by the opposition against it, he said they would be served by both the PAP’s man and Workers’ Party (WP) chef Low Thia Khiang, Hougang’s former MP of 20 years.
For years, opposition politicians have urged residents to vote them in, saying they would get “two MPs”, as the PAP’s candidates usually stayed on in the constituencies as grassroots advisers.
Now, Mr Teo was saying that Hougang’s 23,368 voters can do the same when they go to the polls on May 26.
“In a sense, they can have the best of both worlds too,” he said in an interview with the Singapore media at the end of a five-day visit here.
“They can have a good MP with integrity and commitment to serve them, and I am sure Mr Low… will continue to be associated with Hougang whether or not Workers’ Party is there.”
Besides, he added, Hougang residents are also free to vote for any candidate because they are no longer have an obligation to Mr Low, who is already in Parliament.
He noted that Mr Low, who was Hougang’s MP from 1991 to last year, returned to the ward to mingle with residents even after handing it over to Mr Yaw Shin Leong.
Said Mr Teo: “In fact, it’s an interesting situation. In a sense, voters in Hougang have shown their loyalty to him (Mr Low) and discharged their responsibilities to him by voting in the person he has entrusted Hougang to, but this person has now left.”
On Thursday, a day after the Writ of Election was issued, the two parties introduced their candidates – PAP Mr Desmond Choo and WP ‘s Mr Png Eng Huat,
The quick turn of events promoted Hougang resident Vellama Marie Muthu to withdraw a bid to get the courts to order the Prime Minister to hold a by-election within three months.
Yesterday, her lawyer M. Ravi wrote to the Attorney-General’s Chambers to withdraw the application, citing “dramatic developments of the last 48 hours”.
In his interview, Mr Teo also stressed that the by-election was a local contest – a point made by DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Thurday.
“It’s a by-election, it’s not a national election, it’s not a general election,” he said. “Of course, national issues will enter into the minds of voters when they vote. But essentially what it comes down to when you vote, you will vote for the person who will be there for you.”
Last year’s general election had seem the WP campaigning on the need for opposition voices in the legislature. But Mr Teo said this did not matter at this poll.
“Mr Low is already in Parliament. The WP has already got…five MPs and several NCMPs. So the question of whether there’s opposition in Parliament is also not at stake,” he said. WP has two Non-Constituency MPs in the House.
Mr Teo also drew a distinction between this by-election and that in 1992, when then Mr Goh Chok Tong called for a re-contest of Marine Parade GRC to bring new blood into Government.
“The last by-election that we had was an unusual by-election because it was in the PM’s ward. Of course there was also an emphasis on national issues, because the PM’s seat was at stake,“ said Mr Teo, who was himself inducted into politics during the 1992 polls. “In this case, the Government is not at stake.”
Asked if he would help Mr Choo, Mr Teo, who is the anchor minister for the neighbouring Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, replied: “If Desmond feels it’s usefully for me to go, I’m more than happy to go there and show my support for him.”
He added that both wards could work together to serve residents if Mr Choo is elected. “Whether or not he will be voted in, I think he’s really the underdog,” said Mr Teo. “Hougang residents have always had the penchant for voting in underdogs too. Who knows?”
The Straits Times, Saturday, May 12,2012
Really? Can we say the same for the GE2016 at all the other wards?
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PAP's playing a different game these days, albeit too late.
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alamak , wat a cheap whimsy overture
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desmond choo so hamsum and figure so good leh
will he have 桃花�?
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dun need to be handsome to have 桃花�.
J Neo and Ysl look like pigs.
On that note, I notice married men who cheat on wives usually look like pigs. At least the two that I mentioned do.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
desmond choo so hamsum and figure so good leh
will he have 桃花�?
another Teo Ser Luck type?
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they can form the F4 of PAP
teo ser luck
baey yam keng
vivian bala
(desmond choo) <- if he wins, but i hope not -
This is the daftest thing I have heard from any politician in the world this year. Things are not so simple, that moron.
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Haiz.....
They say might be 4 corner fight.
Very bad for WP.
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so is PH?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
desmond choo so hamsum and figure so good leh
will he have 桃花�?
Joker lah you.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
desmond choo so hamsum and figure so good leh
will he have 桃花�?
He looks fat...Seems like his wife KNOWS HOW TO COOK! hmm
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Hougang voters must not let Singapore down.
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Originally posted by βÎτά:
Haiz.....
They say might be 4 corner fight.
Very bad for WP.
2 from WP and 1 former WP wor...Ei WP really got bad luck when it comes to this..First for accusing them for being racist..second the another WP member want contest.seem like LTK never go Waterloo Street go pray hor.