SOAS FORUM Daniel Cheng Thanks, the reappearance of this link is poignant and much needed for the sake of the education of Sg oppo, both the approved and non approved versions. Point is thinking caps are not on, particularly in the SDP. And all is not well that doesnt end well. And the SDP has always been down the slippery slope, saved only by the oxygen of repression (Garry Rodan) and enormous foreign funds. But predictable that Chees SDP will end pretty badly eventually though the PAP have their own cynical reasons to prop Chee up for the 2016 GE by discharging him from bankruptcy out of the blues. Clear to everyone in sg politics that Hougang and Ponggol are no-go areas for all except the WP these days. Its power packed for WP in the current and historical senses. In 1991,small Hougang was specially carved out for Lowtk by the PAP. The former rural area right to Ponggol End contains: the Barisan heartlands - where the most Barisan ISA detainees hailed from. Therefore a place where the original PAP (later Barisan Socialist) was most active. Many such Barisan clan/ families can still be found there. As potent if not more, it is traditionally a Catholic and Teo Chew farming enclave. The first Catholic Mass was held in the Ponggol Church of Nativity the moment the 22 young Catholic professionals were arrested in 1987. Both recent Archbishops Gregory Yong and Nicolas Chia hails from there. And a huge protest and campaign movement against the arrests would have started and be based from Ponggol if not for the fact that Archbishop Yong himself was arrested briefly and given a tongue lashing. And of course WP leader LowTK is a Teo Chew boy given to rouse the crowd with speeches in the dialect. To even day-dream to want to pit the SDP in a by E in Ponggol against WP only showed SDP under Chee has been spending too much time in talk cock and sing song sessions instead of horning their pol skills. For the record: In 1988 GE one Little India butcher Abdul Rashid(SDP) - an Indian Muslim with only a primary school Tamil education scored 41% of the votes in Ponggol a wholly Chinese farming land. SDP declares interest in contesting at Punggol-East SMC sg.news.yahoo Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) said on Thursday that it is planning to contest in the Punggol East Single Member Constituency (SMC). Like · · Share Ranjan Nair shared a link.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 15:48:44 +0000
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