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Sorry to have to keep repeating GoldenDragon's words but I have come to acknowedge this simple fact, and some here still do not.
Wwabbit has written a very good post and I'm reprinting it here to avoid getting lost.
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Before GE2011, I would agree that the opposition should cooperate to avoid 3 corner fights since there is still plenty of pie leftover where PAP has been receiving walkovers.
Now things have changed, our opposition parties have been growing stronger and there isn't enough pie left. It is time we put an end to the horse-tradng and allow natural selection to take its course. The strong opposition parties should be allowed to survive while the weak ones need to be culled, and the only way to confirm who is weak and who is strong is to pit them against each other in an election, and allow the electorates themselves to decide instead of the party leaders deciding via horse-trading.
Unfortunately, there is a chance that the opposition may lose a contituency or two in a 3-corner fight with PAP winning with under 50% of the votes. I believe, however, that this would be a worthwhile sacrifice in the long run to strengthen the strong opposition parties. Ideally, I thought that we should have more 3-corner fights in GE2011 in the consituencies where the opposition wouldn't have won anyway. It was a lost opportunity for the opposition parties to compete against each other without costing the opposition any seats.
It's a real pity the Moulmein-Kallang 3-corner fight didn't go through. [sarcasm]Now we will never know which is the stronger opposition party, between Worker's Party and National Solidarity Party.[/sarcasm]
Wwabbit has written a very good post and I'm reprinting it here to avoid getting lost.
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Before GE2011, I would agree that the opposition should cooperate to avoid 3 corner fights since there is still plenty of pie leftover where PAP has been receiving walkovers.
Now things have changed, our opposition parties have been growing stronger and there isn't enough pie left. It is time we put an end to the horse-tradng and allow natural selection to take its course. The strong opposition parties should be allowed to survive while the weak ones need to be culled, and the only way to confirm who is weak and who is strong is to pit them against each other in an election, and allow the electorates themselves to decide instead of the party leaders deciding via horse-trading.
Unfortunately, there is a chance that the opposition may lose a contituency or two in a 3-corner fight with PAP winning with under 50% of the votes. I believe, however, that this would be a worthwhile sacrifice in the long run to strengthen the strong opposition parties. Ideally, I thought that we should have more 3-corner fights in GE2011 in the consituencies where the opposition wouldn't have won anyway. It was a lost opportunity for the opposition parties to compete against each other without costing the opposition any seats.
It's a real pity the Moulmein-Kallang 3-corner fight didn't go through. [sarcasm]Now we will never know which is the stronger opposition party, between Worker's Party and National Solidarity Party.[/sarcasm]