Tutu Tu 32 minutes ago (comment from the above link)
Report Abuse Can you trust this party?
At the beginning of the election campaign, this party
1) use upgrading plans to entice voters to vote for them, hundreds of millions dollars (coming from where?? dare not answer, could be your CPF because they intend to raise the retirement age so that they can keep huge sum of your money for more years, could be a raise in GST, could be doubling the intake of foreign workers hence making Singapore very competitive, with workforce for example security guard is of age 25, willing to work permanent night shift, drawing salary of S$900 per month, etc..thereby more worker levy, company make more money, government land sale continue to rise...etc..)
and IF YOU DONT VOTE FOR THIS PARTY, NO UPGRADING FOR YOUR ESTATE, your HDB will de-value quickly......THREATENING YOU....and members of this party even say it EXPLICITLY ...LOUD AND CLEAR
2) senior member of this party EXPLICITLY WARN voters will have 5 YEAR TO REPENT should they vote in the other party....
3) party head can arrange exclusive TV programme (more than an hour) to have casual chat with selected voters on TV, still sound very confident, very assertive that thus far everything done is for the GOOD of the citizens, not giving in anything, not sorry for anything, no major mistakes, no apolo----, the country is steering in the right direction, JUST THAT Singaporeans DO NOT UNDERSTAND, and that Singaproeans being short sighted, NOT PATIENT ENOUGH to wait for the true benefit to be revealed to them...
4) selected hawker food stalls promised that they will not RAISE in selling price for 6 months....
THEN, few days later, somewhere along the campaign (in the midst of the campaign and towards the end of the campaign)
This party starts to offer
1) NO GST HIKE for 5 years (please note that it is conditional: should there is surplus, economy is doing well,etc....)
2) Will SERIOUSLY address the cost of living issue after election
3) Will SERIOUSLY address the selling price FIRST TIME HDB Buyer in the form of higher incentive after election..
4) Assure public that GIC and Temasak fund IS NOT ABUSED, not offering any concrete measure of its transparency and auditability that will be revealed to the public
5) Head of party starts to tell all its party members and grassroot leaders that they are "servants" and voters are "masters"
6) Head of party publicly apologise for anything perceived by the public as mistakes, or wrong doing, still not sure EXACTLY WHAT the APOLO---- IS FOR...just very vague and general, aim to soften the public's resentment and negative image of the party.....
(this apolo---- comes immediately a day where opposition party candidate on behalf of THIS PARTY APOLOGIZED for senior member of this party making comments hurting the malay muslim community, but don't get it wrong, the party head's apolo---- could be on any issue, or on any non-existing issues (that the head of the party feels), because it is targeting at addressing the perception of the voters, because some voters perceived that this party has commited serious mistakes in the past 5 years)
Clearly, this party might have some concrete statistics or surveys done showing that swing voters have more or less decided to vote against this party, that's is why you see a 180 degree change in attitude....
The last thing is, can you trust this party?
Think carefully before you vote....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCZJYPW3QXw&feature=related