Is Worker's Party (WP) alienating itself ?
WP
has come a long way into the political scene of S'pore politics. We can
never forget JBJ who formed the party even before Low Thia Khiang (LTK)
knows what is politics. But before JBJ, it was David Marshal who was
the founder of WP.
So, it evolves to the hand of LTK when JBJ passed the baton to him..LTK made good to secure on seat in parliament then and has since been an MP for donkey years..
GE 2011 was a breakthrough by WP to trounce PAP in Aljunied GRC and history was created when WP secured the supposedly strong fortress GRC of Georgie Yeo and team. With it, WP also secured their stronghold hougang SMC under Yaw Shing Leong (YSL)...Subsequently, when YSL was sacked due to his immoral tryst with a party member, the ward was never threatened. And Png Eng Huat wrestled Hougang against a strong PAP challenge.
And WP went on to win Punggol East by-election (PE BE) vacated by PAP due to Michael Palmer picking on mangoes! So. Lee Li Lian won PE on a four-party contest and became an MP of WP
In all, WP has seven MPs and two NCMPs. It is a milestone reached against the might of PAP dominance.
Since then, even before the PE by-election, LTK displayed a total indifference towards opposition solidarity and unity by announcing in one of his rallies during PE BE that WP will not 'co-operate' with any other opposition parties.
So, has WP grown too alienated and strong that they believe they can stand alone in facing PAP? And what is the reason for LTK to be so openly stating his stand on WP. Has LTK and WP grown over and above their own imagination to be without reservation to state their stand?
At a time of political soul-searching to counter PAP, WP's bombshell serves only to frustrate all opposition. In as much as the opposition of S'pore are rather too immature to move ahead under the control of PAP in absolute power!
With the recent GE of Malaysia...many saw how the solidarity of the Malaysian Parties fought that strongly against BN and secure more that one third parliamentary seats..It will be a tall order for our opposition to do so in our very own country...It will take a number of years for our opposition to even measure up to a quarter of Malaysian oppositions. We cannot deny the truth of self-alienation of our political parties ?
We just look at SPP and RP, where are they heading now??
Hopefully, WP will not be that 'self-serving strong' to want to wear a big hat when the size does not fit. Yes! politics is all about manipulation and smart moves, but you can see many of our oppositions' Secretary-generals, being too smart and egoistic to move to doom...viz... Chiam See Tong, Kenneth Jeyaretnam, Desmond Lim and Goh Meng Seng.
So, is WP and LTK alienating its party into political doomsday or is the party moving in robust pace to secure more seats from the dominance of PAP?... GE 2016 will be exciting to see not only WP but SDP, and NSP forging an inroad to political recognition...
patrick lee song juan
Legend:
GE -General Election
BN -Barisan Nasional
PE -Punggol East
BE -By-election
So, it evolves to the hand of LTK when JBJ passed the baton to him..LTK made good to secure on seat in parliament then and has since been an MP for donkey years..
GE 2011 was a breakthrough by WP to trounce PAP in Aljunied GRC and history was created when WP secured the supposedly strong fortress GRC of Georgie Yeo and team. With it, WP also secured their stronghold hougang SMC under Yaw Shing Leong (YSL)...Subsequently, when YSL was sacked due to his immoral tryst with a party member, the ward was never threatened. And Png Eng Huat wrestled Hougang against a strong PAP challenge.
And WP went on to win Punggol East by-election (PE BE) vacated by PAP due to Michael Palmer picking on mangoes! So. Lee Li Lian won PE on a four-party contest and became an MP of WP
In all, WP has seven MPs and two NCMPs. It is a milestone reached against the might of PAP dominance.
Since then, even before the PE by-election, LTK displayed a total indifference towards opposition solidarity and unity by announcing in one of his rallies during PE BE that WP will not 'co-operate' with any other opposition parties.
So, has WP grown too alienated and strong that they believe they can stand alone in facing PAP? And what is the reason for LTK to be so openly stating his stand on WP. Has LTK and WP grown over and above their own imagination to be without reservation to state their stand?
At a time of political soul-searching to counter PAP, WP's bombshell serves only to frustrate all opposition. In as much as the opposition of S'pore are rather too immature to move ahead under the control of PAP in absolute power!
With the recent GE of Malaysia...many saw how the solidarity of the Malaysian Parties fought that strongly against BN and secure more that one third parliamentary seats..It will be a tall order for our opposition to do so in our very own country...It will take a number of years for our opposition to even measure up to a quarter of Malaysian oppositions. We cannot deny the truth of self-alienation of our political parties ?
We just look at SPP and RP, where are they heading now??
Hopefully, WP will not be that 'self-serving strong' to want to wear a big hat when the size does not fit. Yes! politics is all about manipulation and smart moves, but you can see many of our oppositions' Secretary-generals, being too smart and egoistic to move to doom...viz... Chiam See Tong, Kenneth Jeyaretnam, Desmond Lim and Goh Meng Seng.
So, is WP and LTK alienating its party into political doomsday or is the party moving in robust pace to secure more seats from the dominance of PAP?... GE 2016 will be exciting to see not only WP but SDP, and NSP forging an inroad to political recognition...
patrick lee song juan
Legend:
GE -General Election
BN -Barisan Nasional
PE -Punggol East
BE -By-election
For many years, I had great respect for the Workers' Party and their leadership. Principle, hard work and visible honesty standing up against the polar-opposite PAP. David Marshall, JBJ and all the rest who kept standing up again, no matter what, er, "questionable tactics" were used to try to stomp them into the dust on behalf of the Once-Great Leeader (and now the Oh-Dear! Leeader in dynastic succession).
ReplyDeleteThen "we" the Opposition won Aljunied in 2011, and all of us remember how much hope we had then. Finally, someone was going to stand up in Parliament and hold The Minister and His Cronies' feet to the fire of transparency. Finally, we were going to learn the truth behind inconvenient facts quietlyy swept under the propagandistic rug such as, oh, why a government with such a strong habit of running budget surpluses is also one of the most heavily indebted per-capita in the world (to ADB and World Bank and others). Finally, we were going to get some payback after decades of wayang and self-enrichment substituting for policy.
First, "we" noticed that "our" new MPs were playing far too nice with the PAP leeadership. "Disruption" such as what I'd described happened less and less, if at all. Then, we start hearing about WP's "our way or the highway" attitude. We've heard that before — from those whom the WP MPs were supposedly voted in, in part, to bring to heel. What happened?
I'm still hopeful of a real Opposition strong showing in 2016, with maybe half a dozen GRCs falling to the Army of Light. But, if that's going to happen, "light" had ruddy well better have *an* Army; unified under competent, shared leadership and representing the best that all of us have to offer. Continuing to fall victim to the PAP's divide-and-rule tactics will merely leave them laughing all the way to the bank (that they own); will leave us with ten million people and twenty more in the foreseeable future; will play into the PAP's story that only they should dabble in politics and that we "mere heartlanders" should sit down and shut up.
We're better than that, aren't we? If we don't prove it, and soon, we may have to wait until whoever wins the succession battle after LKY dies, himself becomes old and frail enough that some of our grandchildren may feel the flicker of hope, before it is extinguished by another several million immigrants from the PAP's regional patron and even more wayang.
It can always get worse. Let's make it better instead.