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Thursday 10 September 2015

From the WP rally I've attended and various other WP rallies I've watched online, they attribute all positive changes in policies to themselves, and attack PAP for all the bad ones. More BTO flats? Because PAP is finally listening to the voice of the people. Train Breakdown? PAP sucks! What kind of logic is this. Apart from attacking and criticising, they have never proposed a truly viable and long-term alternative policy. Hopefully they realise that they have a part to play and responsibility to take as MPs for policy failures too. And what can we say about the true strength and capability of an opposition party, whose election rally mentions the ruling party's name more than its own? It doesn't have its own achievements to brag; When I attended WP's rally, there is no mention of legit reasons to vote for WP, other than the same old GE2011 tagline, "WP will be your voice". Sure being an alternative voice in parliament is important, but after 4 whole years, that's all you've got? Nothing new, nothing better to bring to the table? Most of the time was spent emotionally shouting for people not to vote for the PAP, rather than logically convincing voters of the reason why they should vote for WP. Why should we give them more seats in parliament when they have failed to prove their abilities with 7 seats? Why should we give them more seats and risk being disappointed again? These few seats, these 5 years, could be used to develop candidates of better potential, in preparation to take over the core leadership of the country in the future.

I read an article, in which the author asked his friends who are WP supporters the reasons why they vote for WP. After thinking for a long time, they could not answer why. In the end, they admitted that PAP candidates are more capable, but they just don't feel like voting for PAP (IS VOTING CHILD'S PLAY??? Hello! You are voting for my future also leh!), or they want a stronger opposition presence in parliament. But if the only thing you can practically contribute in the parliament is to be a whip, and offering diversity only in opinions and not in solutions, I think your present number of seats is enough, WP. We have enough talkers, we need more thinkers and doers.

Why are we taking good ministers and quality candidates away from parliament, in exchange for people who have just proven that they are only good scarecrows? Their mindsets and views are overly simplistic; Take for example Sylvia Lim's rally speech criticising the lack of hospital beds. Yes I agree that this is a pressing issue and must be addressed. However, her speech was purely a one-sided description of the situation (not like the ruling party doesn't know already), and she totally didn't propose solutions to these problems? 没鱼虾也好. If there are no elaborations, at least say what could be done? So that you don't let your audience be stuck with their own assumptions (and your subtle implications) that the government has been lax and refuses to build more hospitals? Building more hospitals is easy, but have you examined the situation as a whole to consider where are good quality doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals going to come from, especially when you are so against foreign talents and workers? Have you been on the ground and well-informed enough to know that the healthcare sector is already very tight in manpower? The demand for nurses has exceeded the supply, and clinics are lacking manpower. Or maybe you have chosen to ignore this fact just to criticise and appeal to voters?

It is always easier to curry favour from voters, than to present to them hard truths and work out the best solution from there.

What is even more appalling is a statement from Png Eng Huat, who is expected to be guaranteed a seat in parliament as a candidate standing for Hougang. He said that, if the government changes today, everything will still function normally, BECAUSE WE HAVE A GOOD CIVIL SERVICE.

So hello! People vote you into parliament to do what? Because according to what you said, civil service bao gao liao what? Have you taken your guaranteed seat for granted that you have forgotten that you have to work hard? Why not we vote more PAP candidates in so that YOU will work harder?

Honestly WP, I expected better from you.

Really hope that my fellow countrymen will vote rationally for the people they feel can make better use of the seats and time they have in parliament, and contribute more to Singapore to make it a better place. Do not vote for someone just because you feel that the person very 可怜; THIS IS NOT A SYMPATHY VOTE.

Jermia hopped off at 04:49