PM Lee:- We lost Aljunied bec we didnt educate the public and correct mistaken views

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PAP needs to reflect on General Election: PM Lee
By S Ramesh | Posted: 08 September 2011 1612 hrs

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the People's Action Party needs to adjust its policies to serve the people better, and that the party also needs to improve on its engagement and outreach to involve Singaporeans much more on the issues affecting them.

Mr Lee said: "We have to be active in listening, as well as in putting our message across, and in countering mistaken views and disinformation."

Mr Lee, who is also the PAP's Secretary General, made these observations in the latest issue of Petir, the party's magazine. The editorial comes in the wake of the party's performance in the last General Election, having won 81 out of 87 seats.

He said the ruling People's Action Party must reflect on the meaning of the May 7 General Election, and strengthen and reinvent itself to maintain a leading role in Singapore politics.

He also said the party must also strengthen its presence in cyberspace and learn to use the new media more effectively. This meant not just going onto Facebook and Twitter, but being on the same wavelength as the netizens and resonating with the Internet generation.

That way, the MPs and leaders can continue serving the widest spread of society and work with all citizens to shape the new Singapore together.

Mr Lee said constituency work also remains crucial, as a caring, hardworking and effective MP, backed by a strong team of activists and the party, can make the difference. He said this was clear in the General Election as MPs who had worked hard, enjoyed strong support.

As for the opposition wards, Mr Lee urges the PAP to maintain its presence, keep the branch active and take care of supporters and fight hard to win back the constituency. Mr Lee added: "Fundamentally, we need to get Singaporeans to see the PAP for what it is and what it has always been - their champion, acting on their behalf, working with them and for them."

So the Prime Minister's call to his party activists is to stay united in the cause and fight tenaciously to create a better tomorrow for all Singaporeans.

-CNA/ac

 

[steffychun]

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Sorry. For one who studied at Harvard, he should know better. He lost Aljunied cause his party is slowly died.

 

[po2wq]

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... " ...for what it is and what it has always been - their champion, acting on their behalf, working with them and for them." ...

wat it is n wat it has been r 2 different tings al2gether ... tiz past ... present is ...

champion, acting n working 4 ownself ...

 

[BusNo64]

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PAP needs to reflect on General Election: PM Lee
By S Ramesh | Posted: 08 September 2011 1612 hrs

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the People's Action Party needs to adjust its policies to serve the people better, and that the party also needs to improve on its engagement and outreach to involve Singaporeans much more on the issues affecting them.

Mr Lee said: "We have to be active in listening, as well as in putting our message across, and in countering mistaken views and disinformation."

 

[Confuseous]

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PAP needs to reflect on General Election: PM Lee
By S Ramesh | Posted: 08 September 2011 1612 hrs

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the People's Action Party needs to adjust its policies to serve the people better, and that the party also needs to improve on its engagement and outreach to involve Singaporeans much more on the issues affecting them.

Mr Lee said: "We have to be active in listening, as well as in putting our message across, and in countering mistaken views and disinformation."This time really chiak lak, PAP. If this is what they really think the problem is, then they are sunk.

Mr Lee, who is also the PAP's Secretary General, made these observations in the latest issue of Petir, the party's magazine. The editorial comes in the wake of the party's performance in the last General Election, having won 81 out of 87 seats.

He said the ruling People's Action Party must reflect on the meaning of the May 7 General Election, and strengthen and reinvent itself to maintain a leading role in Singapore politics.It will be interesting to know what is the PAP's definition of "maintaining a leading role" before we jump to any conclusion.

He also said the party must also strengthen its presence in cyberspace and learn to use the new media more effectively. This meant not just going onto Facebook and Twitter, but being on the same wavelength as the netizens and resonating with the Internet generation.THEY STILL DON'T GET IT. IT IS NOT THE MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION BUT SUBSTANCE OF THE POLICY AND THE TONALITY OF DELIVERY, NOT THE CHANNEL. THEY CANNOT RESONATE WITH THE INTERNET GENERATION WHICH IS "LAWLESS, LUNATIC FRINGE, WILD WILD WEST" UNLESS THEY ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT THE SAME PHILOSOPHY.

That way, the MPs and leaders can continue serving the widest spread of society and work with all citizens to shape the new Singapore together."NEW SINGAPORE" - what is this huh? Very new, first time we hear about it.

Mr Lee said constituency work also remains crucial, as a caring, hardworking and effective MP, backed by a strong team of activists and the party, can make the difference. He said this was clear in the General Election as MPs who had worked hard, enjoyed strong support.Ha ha, THAT is loyalty for you. So, Zainuddin did not work hard but got a better job with MediaWorks. It will be good to hear what GY, Dennis Phua, Lim Hwee Hua, and that Lian Beng son-in-law Ong fella have to say.

As for the opposition wards, Mr Lee urges the PAP to maintain its presence, keep the branch active and take care of supporters and fight hard to win back the constituency. Mr Lee added: "Fundamentally, we need to get Singaporeans to see the PAP for what it is and what it has always been - their champion, acting on their behalf, working with them and for them." PAP should start tea-parties to invite suicide squad to land in Aljunied and start doing these things.

So the Prime Minister's call to his party activists is to stay united "united" - Freudian slip, confirming TCB's views? in the cause and fight tenaciously TENANCIOUSLY - Not a very nice word for a PM to use, even though the message is meant for party members, knowing that it will be reported in the brothel press. to create a better tomorrow for all Singaporeans.

-CNA/ac

Actually, all the PAP has to do is just to read the First Episode of Ah Sook's Fables - fix those, and everyone can sleep happily ever after!

 

[KuanTi01]

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A leopard never change its spots! What mistaken views and disinformation? Isn't this an admission that their much-touted grassroots porlumpars are ineffective, useless, sycophantic, blind and deaf all rolled into one? They simply failed to read the ground. Don't try to pin the blame and look for scapegoats . Blame it on failed leadership and their own disconnect with the people. That's the hard truth!

 

[The_Hypocrite]

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With this comment, it shows that Pinky has no intention to change and his apology during the election was nothing but a farce. I cant believe the stupidity of the people who got taken in by his Bull Shit Lies. He should have said, we made mistakes, these are it, and we will correct it. Instead he says we have to correct misconceptions...what a load of crap. Is the FT policy a misconception by Smart SIngaporeans? is the MRT crowds a figment of the passengers mind? etc etc

 

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

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This is gonna be a fucking big problem when the SCUMS IN WHITE are all in SELF DENIAL MODE. Reminds me of the IRAQI COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER who said " Americans? What Americans....when American forces were filmed right behind him....:

 

[zeddy]

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[ahleebabasingaporethief]

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[h=1]The Whole Truth and Nothing But[/h] [h=6]By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN[/h] [h=6]Published: September 6, 2011[/h]



Kishore Mahbubani, a retired Singaporean diplomat, published a provocative essay in The Financial Times on Monday that began like this: “Dictators are falling. Democracies are failing. A curious coincidence? Or is it, perhaps, a sign that something fundamental has changed in the grain of human history. I believe so. How do dictators survive? They tell lies. Muammar Gaddafi was one of the biggest liars of all time. He claimed that his people loved him. He also controlled the flow of information to his people to prevent any alternative narrative taking hold. Then the simple cellphone enabled people to connect. The truth spread widely to drown out all the lies that the colonel broadcast over the airwaves.

[h=6]Josh Haner/The New York Times[/h] Thomas L. Friedman


“So why are democracies failing at the same time? The simple answer: democracies have also been telling lies.” Mahbubani noted that “the eurozone project was created on a big lie” that countries could have monetary union and fiscal independence — without pain. Meanwhile, in America, added Mahbubani, now the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, “No U.S. leaders dare to tell the truth to the people. All their pronouncements rest on a mythical assumption that ‘recovery’ is around the corner. Implicitly, they say this is a normal recession. But this is no normal recession. There will be no painless solution. ‘Sacrifice’ will be needed, and the American people know this. But no American politician dares utter the word ‘sacrifice.’ Painful truths cannot be told.”
Of course, there is a big difference between America and Libya. We can vote out our liars, unlike certain Arab — and Asian — countries. Still, Mahbubani’s comparison warrants some reflection this week, which coincides with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and the president’s jobs speech. It is a great week for truth-telling.
Can you remember the last time you felt a national leader looked us in the eye and told us there is no easy solution to our major problems, that we’ve gotten into this mess by being self-indulgent or ideologically fixated over two decades and that now we need to spend the next five years rolling up our sleeves, possibly accepting a lower living standard and making up for our excesses?
For me, this is the most important thing to say both on the anniversary of 9/11 and on the eve of President Obama’s jobs speech. After all, they are intertwined. Why has this been a lost decade? An answer can be found in one simple comparison: How Dwight Eisenhower and his successors used the cold war and how George W. Bush used 9/11. America had to face down the Russians in the cold war. America had to respond to 9/11 and the threat of Al Qaeda. But the critical difference between the two was this: Beginning with Eisenhower and continuing to some degree with every cold war president, we used the cold war and the Russian threat as a reason and motivator to do big, hard things together at home — to do nation-building in America. We used it to build the interstate highway system, put a man on the moon, push out the boundaries of science, teach new languages, maintain fiscal discipline and, when needed, raise taxes. We won the cold war with collective action.
George W. Bush did the opposite. He used 9/11 as an excuse to lower taxes, to start two wars that — for the first time in our history — were not paid for by tax increases, and to create a costly new entitlement in Medicare prescription drugs. Imagine where we’d be today if on the morning of 9/12 Bush had announced (as some of us advocated) a “Patriot Tax” of $1 per gallon of gas to pay for education, infrastructure and government research, to help finance our wars and to slash our dependence on Middle East oil. Gasoline in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, averaged $1.66 a gallon.
But rather than use 9/11 to summon us to nation-building at home, Bush used it as an excuse to party — to double down on a radical tax-cutting agenda for the rich that not only did not spur rising living standards for most Americans but has now left us with a huge ball and chain around our ankle. And later, rather than asking each of us to contribute something to the war, he outsourced it to one-half of one-percent of the American people. Everyone else — y’all have fun.
We used the cold war to reach the moon and spawn new industries. We used 9/11 to create better body scanners and more T.S.A. agents. It will be remembered as one of the greatest lost opportunities of any presidency — ever.
My fervent hope is that on Thursday Mr. Obama will set an example and tell the cold, hard truth — to parents and kids. I know. Honesty, we are told, is suicidal in politics. But as long as every solution that is hard is off the table, then our slow national decline will remain on the table. The public is ready for more than Michele Bachmann’s fairy-dust promise that she can restore $2 a gallon gasoline.
For once, Mr. President, let’s start a debate with the truth. Tell us what you really think will be required to get us out of this stagnation, what kind of collective action and shared sacrifice will be needed and why that can lead not just to muddling through, not just to being O.K., but to restoring American greatness.

Is he making a dig at old fart here ?

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[zeddy]

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[spotter542]

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The fall of Aljunied GRC was in May 2011 , it's September now.
It takes almost 4 months for the Pappies to address this issue ?

 

[red amoeba]

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basically we want a change...and starting with Aljunied.

PAP underestimated the WP team...

tok is cheap...action pls.

 

[makapaaa]

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So what does it make of his apology? Fake!

 

[Devil Within]

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In other words, he is saying that they have not brainwash Aljunied voters enough. That mean PAP still think they are right and voters are wrong. That means PAP has not learn from their mistake cos they don't think they did any wrong in their policies like FT, tax hike and all the craps.

 

[mscitw]

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Ruler Loong should stop sprouting rubbish. He should issue more decrees so that stupid peasants will repent, tremble and obey.

 

[Leepotism]

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Nice photo.

 

[Froggy]

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I wish PAP continue to think like this for the next 5 years and we'll see them lose more GRCs

 

[Kid278]

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In other words, he is saying that they have not brainwash Aljunied voters enough. That mean PAP still think they are right and voters are wrong. That means PAP has not learn from their mistake cos they don't think they did any wrong in their policies like FT, tax hike and all the craps.

The Papzis dont and will never want to learn, their arrogance and pride forbids stepping back. One major crux of the problem lies with the flawed FT policy. But instead of addressing it, they are still pushing and window dressing it with spins like GDP growth and declining birth rate. I think it'll not be such a bad thing if a very bad economic recession can stop the influx and at the same time force all these FTs out.

 

[Cruxx]

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Wah Singapore got female Nazi.