Sore loser Vivian hiding Parliamentary Privilege to defame WP

[winnipegjets]

If Ms Vivian has integrity, he should repeat the same allegations outside Parliament. Dare the WP to sue him.

WP accused of being untruthful in hawker centre cleaning saga

By Elgin Toh
Singapolitics
Tuesday, Jul 09, 2013

SINGAPORE - In a dramatic exchange in Parliament on Tuesday, Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan accused Workers' Party MPs Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh of making "false and untruthful" statements on the recent hawker centre cleaning dispute.

Providing a full account of what he described as a "sorry episode", Dr Balakrishnan said the witnesses and the evidence clearly led to the conclusion that a property manager of the WP-run town council in Aljunied GRC had asked hawkers at two Bedok hawker centres to pay extra for annual cleaning.

This, despite the standard practice for at least the past decade that the town council should have foot the bill. The request was made, furthermore, on at least three separate occasions, he added. Ms Lim maintained that the WP had not been untruthful.

But, Dr Balakrishnan countered that in the face of "incontrovertible evidence", repeated denials by Ms Lim and Mr Singh that the property manager had made any such request were "very, very troubling".

Suggesting that this amounted to a cover-up, he said the crux of the issue was "clean politics", not the "cleanliness of the (hawker centre) ceiling".

During the exchange, which lasted 36 minutes, Ms Lim categorically denied the allegations of falsehood and reiterated that the issue was a misunderstanding rooted in a misleading email from the National Environment Agency, and confusion over whether the cleaning being discussed were annual or quarterly ones.

Ms Lim, the chairman of WP and the town council which the hawker centres in question come under, did not deny that they were responsible for cleaning the ceilings of the hawker centre once a year. But, she said there was no law stating which time of the year this had to happen.

Midway through the exchange, Dr Balakrishnan distributed to MPs a dossier of evidence, with email and meeting minutes to back up his case that Ms Lim had been untruthful. Ms Lim denied that the evidence proved the allegation.

 

[HorGauGan]

i decided to name this puppy Vivian

 

[steffychun]

Come on WP fight back!!!

 

[csi88]

Is proofing WP is not truthful that this Minister is paid for to do this in parliament? I think the minister should moved on.lets not waste anymore time on this matter la.think of a solution to get rid of the dengue epidemic better.

 

[steffychun]

Is proofing WP is not truthful that this Minister is paid for to do this in parliament? I think the minister should moved on.lets not waste anymore time on this matter la.think of a solution to get rid of the dengue epidemic better.

Well that's his primary job. Also to deliver letters to Indonesia

 

[Bigfuck]

Word on the street is vivian is not only a joke but now has earn enough disfavor points till he goes to the grave. His chapter in history is sealed and his children and grandchildren now have to bear it.

 

[Extremist]

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[ILovePAP]

Lets move on. Its only a damn hawker centre.

 

[winnipegjets]

Is proofing WP is not truthful that this Minister is paid for to do this in parliament? I think the minister should moved on.lets not waste anymore time on this matter la.think of a solution to get rid of the dengue epidemic better.

Instead of dealing with dengue and haze, the minister has his staff researching and making up a dossier on the WP TC to distribute in Parliament. The $68-million man has priority right.

 

[winnipegjets]

Lets move on. Its only a damn hawker centre.

Why didn't you tell your Minister that? He is a sore loser indeed. And he has his priority right ...get his ministry to prepare dossier for the parliamentary attack instead of focusing on dengue and haze.

 

[enterprise2]

Word on the street is vivian is not only a joke but now has earn enough disfavor points till he goes to the grave. His chapter in history is sealed and his children and grandchildren now have to bear it.

Time to target him in next GE. Sure win thing!!

 

[winnipegjets]

Ms Vivian doesn't even know parliamentary rules ...his address is to the Speaker, not the opposition leader.

You can gather from the recent talk of 'right politics' and this 'clean politics' that the PAP is on a campaign to brand the opposition as 'dirty politicians' and the rise of opposition as 'wrong politics'.

 

[winnipegjets]

Well that's his primary job. Also to deliver letters to Indonesia

His primary job is to get his staff to come up with new terms to describe floods, haze and dengue. As well as have his ministry focus on preparing dossier for attacking the opposition in Parliament.

Well done, Ms Vivian. You are indeed fit for gutter politics.

 

[steffychun]

Time to target him in next GE. Sure win thing!!

Holland Bukit Timah can be oppo. But please not SDP

 

[watchman8]

Instead of dealing with dengue and haze, the minister has his staff researching and making up a dossier on the WP TC to distribute in Parliament. The $68-million man has priority right.

Amongst bigger issues like haze and dengue outbreak, no one cares about the dumb hawker centre cleaning, and such a small issue should not be taking up a minister's time, let along wasting the timing of entire parliament. What does Vivian want to discuss next? Toilet cleaning?

 

[Confuseous]

Wow - this guy is talking about the need to be honest, to come clean etc?
And not to take advantage of people? Woh, I don't know what to say!

 

[escher]

If Ms Vivian has integrity, he should repeat the same allegations outside Parliament. Dare the WP to sue him.

Go get a life and wake your idea.

Since when any of the PAP maggots and cockroaches have any integrity?
Since when any of the PAP maggots and cockroaches have any honor?
Since when any of the PAP maggots and cockroaches know what is shame?

Accept in the real and present world, PAP maggots and cockroaches are all self serving greedy cockroaches and fucking cowards on top of that knowing only how to hide behind their fucking kangaroos

 

[halsey02]

Time to target him in next GE. Sure win thing!!

The Internet people should prepare a dozier on Vivien on his ACHIEVEMENTS & present them in the next........ to the public. The proof is in the pudding..or this case "rojak".

 

[winnipegjets]

The Internet people should prepare a dozier on Vivien on his ACHIEVEMENTS & present them in the next........ to the public. The proof is in the pudding..or this case "rojak".

Can we get the ministry staff to help us prepare the dossier? It will be a better use of taxpayer's money.

 

[kingrant]

Why hawker centre cleaning has so much attention in parliament? What happened to the AIM issue? When is the govt ready with its review?