NSP under GMS is a very irresponsible party!

[RonRon]

Here is the evidence for the proposition, you decide.

NSP is willing to concede the Moulmein-Kallang GRC to the WP if the WP fields either its Sec-Gen or its chairman. If the WP agrees, this condition could lead to the WP losing its only SMC or making it more difficult to win the Aljunied GRC which it narrowly lost in 2006.

Is this what any responsible party that opposes the PAP wants?

Putting aside this issue, one would have tot, based on this condition, that NSP was deploying its Chairman or Sec-Gen in the GRC. No, it isn’t. It is fielding in the four-MP GRC, three people who had just joined the NSP. They were part of a group of 20 who had left the RP, citing differences over how the RP should be run. Two of them were govmin scholarship holders and held mid-ranking posts in the SAF and the admin service.

Is it responsible to equate the Sec-Gen or Chairman of the leading opposition party with two newbies, albeit ones that could qualify to be possible PAP candidates?

Next, isn’t it one of the grouses against the PAP is that it forces down voters’ throats, via GRCs, ex-high flying civil servants and SAF officers. And isn’t it another grouse that many of these high flyers turn out to be duds?

And yet despite the concerns among voters of the PAP’s elitist habits, the NSP expects to contest the GRC because it has scholars in its team.

Is this responsible behaviour towards voters?

Onto a wider point. The WP has been getting a lot of stick on the Internet for being unwilling to compromise with the smaller opposition parties on sharing constituencies.

I calculated that there are 10 constituencies where the various parties have not settled their differences and where there is a chance of three-way fights. Of these the NSP is involved in five rows: with the WP over one GRC and two SMCs; with the SDP, one SMC; and with the RP, one SMC.

Given its track record as an opposition party, these are sure a lot constituencies to stake claims to.

I respected Goh Meng Seng for selling his flat and allocating $40,000 of the proceeds to campaign on behalf on the NSP. Hard to criticise anyone prepared to spend that amount of money for his principles.

But I now think that being prepared to spend that amount of money has made him willing to do anything to ensure that the NSP gets at least one NCMP seat. Taz the only rational reason I can think of of the NSP wanting to contest so many seats and in the process rowing with the other parties.

Not very responsible behaviour is it?

http://atans1.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/nsp-an-irresponsible-party/

 

[GoldenDragon]

If it is really true that GMS had to sell his flat and allocate 40K to fund NSP and his political campaign, he deserves to be respected, admired and applauded.

What if it was all staged? Can 40K go that far? Could there be a reason that the sale of his flat and its stated intention was to hide something else?

 

[Forvendet]

If it is really true that GMS had to sell his flat and allocate 40K to fund NSP and his political campaign, he deserves to be respected, admired and applauded.

What if it was all staged? Can 40K go that far? Could there be a reason that the sale of his flat and its stated intention was to hide something else?

He's just taking profits before he tries to crash the prices for everybody else. NSP is an irresponsible party regardless who's officially in charge in front. Tan Chee Kien and Sebastian Teo are always in charge. They're PAP moles, experts in rousing three-corners and ruining even straight contests to give PAP respectable mandates. Steve Chia was the first monkey used by them to front their monkey shows. Now it's GMS turn to be the front monkey.

 

[GoldenDragon]

He's just taking profits before he tries to crash the prices for everybody else. NSP is an irresponsible party regardless who's officially in charge in front. Tan Chee Kien and Sebastian Teo are always in charge. They're PAP moles, experts in rousing three-corners and ruining even straight contests to give PAP respectable mandates. Steve Chia was the first monkey used by them to front their monkey shows. Now it's GMS turn to be the front monkey.

I am certain all living monkeys will be offended when they are compared to GMS. Pigs and snakes won't.

 

[yellow_people]

Here is the evidence for the proposition, you decide.

NSP is willing to concede the Moulmein-Kallang GRC to the WP if the WP fields either its Sec-Gen or its chairman. If the WP agrees, this condition could lead to the WP losing its only SMC or making it more difficult to win the Aljunied GRC which it narrowly lost in 2006.

GMS has presented LTK, with whom he had an acrimonious parting of ways, a political Gordian knot. After all, they should know each other very well. LTK is simply playing up his self-importance by saying he "is mulling contesting a GRC". Deep down he knows he stands to receive an embarrassing defeat and loss of Hougang in the process. And so does the astute voter. Neither will Sylvia Lim lead Aljunied GRC as is widely anticipated by voters. At least not with over 12 SMCs 'gifted' by the PAP.

The reasons are simple:

1. GRC offers a wider diversity in voter demographics, compared to a SMC, like Hougang, where he can simply pander to the majority Teochew speaking crowd. He will have difficulties given his lack of proficiency in English to reach out to the English educated crowd.

2. He will have to face a Minister in a GRC contest vis-a-vis a minnow PAP candidate in Hougang, a risky albeit difficult contest.

3. He has generally been left alone by the PAP in Hougang without having to directly be in the PAP cross-hairs. Contest a GRC and he will have to contend with 'heavies' like GCT, LKY and LHL canvassing for votes on his turf.

4. More crucial, unlike an SMC, the outcome of a victory in a GRC is not influenced by him solely, but with the team on his ticket. Voters are inevitably going to draw comparison between the teams. He also risks a potentially unexpected event that could derail his contest through no fault of his own. Eg: another Yaw Shin Leong or James Gomez saga; that the PAP will exploit much to his chagrin.

Aljunied GRC was lost by WP by over a 12% margin. I would hardly call that a narrow defeat. The only difference it made was the losing percentage was the highest amongst opposition defeats.

To make matters worse WP has since 2006, managed to alienate the minority voter even further. In particular, the Malay voter whose numbers make up above the national average in this particular constituency? SL knows her chances of personal victory by leading another GRC team in Aljunied are as good as zero.


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[ivebert]

How can you trust GMS

Someone who spent 15 years running a 2-man computer shop with his NUS economics degree?

 

[ray_of_hope]

I am quite certain that LTK will lead a GRC team. More to the point, for the first time ever the PAP will face significant challenges in not 1 but 3 GRCs. In all other elections only 1 GRC was the focus of attention.

In one of the few occurrences since 1997, the PAP has been announcing the deployment of some of their election candidates well before Nomination Day. And this is happening even before they have introduced all their 24 new candidates (only 6 have been introduced thus far). That in and of itself is somewhat peculiar. One does not wish to overstate this, but to me this is a clear sign of some nervousness.

 

[seebaysong]

Property price so gd sell property to realize gains is a logical option... Let's not make a saint out of this move