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FORWARDED BY WHATAPPS........When Governments Are Forced To Go The Distance,All Is Not Well!
It is now clear from Liew Tuck Yew’s angry letter to the New York Times over Li Sheng Wu’s comments in the video produced by the NYT on tyranny,that our GE will be held in September this year.It can of course be held in August but Lawrence Wong will never pass up the opportunity for a ginormous National Day celebration to drum up National fervour over SG60 in the desperate hope that it would change the political fortunes of the PAP.Neither will he pass up the chance to make his case to Singaporeans at the National Day Rally.
Parliament will automatically be dissolved on 24 August because its 5 year term expires on 23 August 2025.I expect LW to ask Tharman to dissolve Parliament and issue the Writ of Election very shortly after his NDR speech,giving us a September election.
This will be the 1st time in my adult life that a PAP government has gone the full distance of 5 years.In the past,the PAP have gone to elections usually at the 4 year mark or even earlier.
When governments go the full distance,it is a tell-tale sign that they are struggling and the ground is against them.They hope against hope that the tide will somehow turn in their favour, but history teaches us that never happens.I will give you 2 recent examples.
In 2007,Tony Blair,after 10 years as British PM, finally handed over the reigns to Gordon Brown,his Chancellor.This was part of the pact the duo had struck when Gordon Brown gave way to Tony Blair in 1994,to be elected as the leader of the Labour Party.When Blair handed over to Brown,Labour had a lead in the polls and Brown’s supporters were urging him to call snap elections immediately to capitalise on Labour’s lead.But for reasons of conceit and ego,Brown wanted to prove he could do better than Blair and so he withheld from calling the elections.Events then intervened to destroy Brown.First came the 2008 financial crisis followed by the MPs’ expenses scandal in 2009.The polls turned against Brown and he dragged it right till the end of Parliament’s 5 year term before calling the elections.He lost the 66 seat majority Blair had handed him.That ushered in 14 years of Conservative rule until Sunak got wiped out last July.
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Nearer home we have the example of Barisan Nasional’s historic defeat by Pakatan in the GE of 2018.The previous GE had been held on 5 May 2013.In 2018,the GE was on 9 May 2018.So again we have an example of a government that was forced to go the distance.And we know why Najib went the distance- because of the unbearable cost of living and declining standard of living crisis and the 1MDB scandal.After 61 years in power,BN was kicked out and the rest as they say is history.
I am confident that no matter what financial incentives LW and the PAP may throw at Singaporeans from now till September,it will not alter the outcome of the elections.After 66 years of uninterrupted PAP rule,Singaporeans are tired of the PAP.
When Singaporeans go to the polls this September,what will be ringing in their minds will be Ridout Road,38 Oxley Road,Simply Gostan,Acra/Nric fiasco,POFMA and a slew of other repugnant issues on top of the cost of living crisis,unaffordability of public housing,job insecurity,rampant immigration and CECA to name just a few.LW will not have enough putty to patch the holes in the hull of a sinking ship.
I have said the longer LW delays the elections the more seats the PAP will lose.Events are not going to be in the PAP’s favour this year.The economic storm clouds are rapidly gathering.There will be more retrenchments and closures of businesses,the direct consequences of the PAP’s insane policies of increasing business costs and the cost of living for Singaporeans.Yesteday’s Wall Street collapse of tech stocks is an ominous and foreboding sign of what is ahead this year.
The former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was once asked by a journalist what he feared most in politics. His answer was “events,my boy,events.I don’t have control over them”.We will witness how events and the PAP’s own increasing incompetence will destroy them this year.
It is now clear from Liew Tuck Yew’s angry letter to the New York Times over Li Sheng Wu’s comments in the video produced by the NYT on tyranny,that our GE will be held in September this year.It can of course be held in August but Lawrence Wong will never pass up the opportunity for a ginormous National Day celebration to drum up National fervour over SG60 in the desperate hope that it would change the political fortunes of the PAP.Neither will he pass up the chance to make his case to Singaporeans at the National Day Rally.
Parliament will automatically be dissolved on 24 August because its 5 year term expires on 23 August 2025.I expect LW to ask Tharman to dissolve Parliament and issue the Writ of Election very shortly after his NDR speech,giving us a September election.
This will be the 1st time in my adult life that a PAP government has gone the full distance of 5 years.In the past,the PAP have gone to elections usually at the 4 year mark or even earlier.
When governments go the full distance,it is a tell-tale sign that they are struggling and the ground is against them.They hope against hope that the tide will somehow turn in their favour, but history teaches us that never happens.I will give you 2 recent examples.
In 2007,Tony Blair,after 10 years as British PM, finally handed over the reigns to Gordon Brown,his Chancellor.This was part of the pact the duo had struck when Gordon Brown gave way to Tony Blair in 1994,to be elected as the leader of the Labour Party.When Blair handed over to Brown,Labour had a lead in the polls and Brown’s supporters were urging him to call snap elections immediately to capitalise on Labour’s lead.But for reasons of conceit and ego,Brown wanted to prove he could do better than Blair and so he withheld from calling the elections.Events then intervened to destroy Brown.First came the 2008 financial crisis followed by the MPs’ expenses scandal in 2009.The polls turned against Brown and he dragged it right till the end of Parliament’s 5 year term before calling the elections.He lost the 66 seat majority Blair had handed him.That ushered in 14 years of Conservative rule until Sunak got wiped out last July.
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Nearer home we have the example of Barisan Nasional’s historic defeat by Pakatan in the GE of 2018.The previous GE had been held on 5 May 2013.In 2018,the GE was on 9 May 2018.So again we have an example of a government that was forced to go the distance.And we know why Najib went the distance- because of the unbearable cost of living and declining standard of living crisis and the 1MDB scandal.After 61 years in power,BN was kicked out and the rest as they say is history.
I am confident that no matter what financial incentives LW and the PAP may throw at Singaporeans from now till September,it will not alter the outcome of the elections.After 66 years of uninterrupted PAP rule,Singaporeans are tired of the PAP.
When Singaporeans go to the polls this September,what will be ringing in their minds will be Ridout Road,38 Oxley Road,Simply Gostan,Acra/Nric fiasco,POFMA and a slew of other repugnant issues on top of the cost of living crisis,unaffordability of public housing,job insecurity,rampant immigration and CECA to name just a few.LW will not have enough putty to patch the holes in the hull of a sinking ship.
I have said the longer LW delays the elections the more seats the PAP will lose.Events are not going to be in the PAP’s favour this year.The economic storm clouds are rapidly gathering.There will be more retrenchments and closures of businesses,the direct consequences of the PAP’s insane policies of increasing business costs and the cost of living for Singaporeans.Yesteday’s Wall Street collapse of tech stocks is an ominous and foreboding sign of what is ahead this year.
The former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was once asked by a journalist what he feared most in politics. His answer was “events,my boy,events.I don’t have control over them”.We will witness how events and the PAP’s own increasing incompetence will destroy them this year.
