WP’s Gerald Giam spoke about a ton of problems that we faced in the past 5 years.
Lax immigration policies, food prices are up, worsening traffic gridlock, housing crunch etc. because of PAP’s mismanagement with the policies.
Taking an objective stand, I would really like to know what the WP can offer to the people. So far, during the rallies, it’s been more of a debate about analogies like bus drivers or co-drivers, or generic statements like ‘Together, we can bring about a change …’ or ‘Vote for your conscience, not fear’. What I hope to hear more from the opposition parties, not just WP, are the concrete solutions that they provide when they are elected.
Nevertheless, I’m not against the opposition as well. Like what Gerald Giam mentioned in the rally, will ministers speak against these policies? Who dares to speak up against their own bosses? How sure can we be that the PAP’s one party rule can improve our lives in the next 5 years?
I dare not say that the PAP’s policies haven’t been effective over the past decades. But let’s hear WP’s Low Thia Kiang out.
Why is the PAP restricting the opposition from doing their job, even at the grass root level? When opposition parties want to organize activities in other constituencies, an application has to be made to Town Council for the venue. However, their applications were rejected. Even in their own constituency (note: just constituency not constituencies), an elected Minister of Parliament (Low) has to sit at the void deck to conduct forum sessions session while PAP’s MP sit in air-con rooms to do so.
Why are the WP branches not seen as commonly as those of the PAP? Is it really attributed to the lower rent the PAP receive due to their affiliation with the PCF? If PAP can be offered lower rental, why not do the same for WP? Shouldn’t the government try to help the country as a whole instead of focusing on trivial issues like, oh this constituency didn’t vote for me, I’ll focus my efforts on those that did. Whatever happened to equality?
Why is PAP’s Desmond Choo (who is the grassroot advisor, they don’t retire, quoting Low) given more priority in the grass root activities as compared to Low Thia Kiang? Even for things like lift upgrading, WP Low pays a substantial amount for that, yet PAP’s Desmond Choo is the one who LAUNCHES it. This allows the latter to take part in grass root activities in Hougang and maintain an extensive grass root network even though he wasn’t elected?
Is it fair for the PAP to do so? Will they allow the Workers’ Party to do similar things if the WP is not elected?
Quoting WP’s Low Thia Kiang again,
The PAP shamelessly says that the elections is a level playing field. One man, one vote.
But, when they ask me to play a game of soccer, they use a goalpost smaller than the ball! (cheers from audience)
Do listen to the WP’s point of view.
The Coffee Drinker 