What's changed after GE 2011?
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
Kee Chiu really alot of pattern... Carrot cake first, then Pizza...
So wat's next???
hum.
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maybe roti-prata?
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
maybe roti-prata?
with hum.
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So how, think got change for better or for worse?
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roti prata kosong mai hum.
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I think since 2011, now more crowded.
Serious.
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Originally posted by ahtansh:
More talk, more discussions, more explanations. As Singapore population gets more educated more time is needed to study every policies before rolling out but at the end of the day we need leaders with balls to make decisions and stand by his decisions even if they are not popular or worst a wrong one.
A delicate balance between popularity and reality... I'm still sulking on the two casinoes, the $8million bill to overhaul MRT system... Necessarily unpopular....
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Originally posted by Aneslayer:
A delicate balance between popularity and reality... I'm still sulking on the two casinoes, the $8million bill to overhaul MRT system... Necessarily unpopular....
Sure or not?
8 million only?
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Originally posted by charlize:
Sure or not?
8 million only?
Or is it billion? *self facepalm*
Ok... Final answer: $900million...
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Sentosa Cove bungalow already over $100 million.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Sentosa Cove bungalow already over $100 million.
That is a very delicate washing machine...
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They property prices continue to edge up despite the additional tax tor high end properties.
Prices keep going up like no end.
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Haiz.
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Originally posted by Aneslayer:
That is a very delicate washing machine...
laundromatic super deluxe..
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Originally posted by Clivebenss:
laundromatic super deluxe..
Huh?
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Times are bad.
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Online debate more even-handed than during GE
The online debate on the Hougang campaign is more even-handed compared to the overwhelmingly negative slant against the ruling party during last year's general election, say observers.
A year ago, nearly every act or comment by the People's Action Party (PAP) came under attack, while the Workers' Party (WP) was largely unscathed.
But a year on, political watchers notice a shift in cyberspace. While the PAP continues to be fair game, the WP has also garnered its share of critics.
They say the change is due to two main factors.
Firstly, many from the PAP camp are more organised about defending the party, with the setting-up of online sites such as 'Fabrications about the PAP'.
Secondly, netizens are beginning to demand more from the WP following its historic breakthrough of garnering a GRC and winning six seats in all.
Socio-political blogger Siew Kum Hong said: 'The WP has grown and bears the weight of increased expectations, so naturally criticism of the WP has increased.'
On the PAP mobilising more effectively online, most watchers cite the Fabrications page as one that has gained traction and also the role played by politicians themselves to be online.
Said Mr Siew: 'I would attribute the new partisan pro-PAP voices to their activists and supporters.'
Fabrications went online last September, and is now endorsing the PAP's candidate for Hougang, Mr Desmond Choo. Its posts include photo collages of him on the campaign trail and anti-WP posts.
Another website, SG Hard Truth, claims to give a balanced and fair view countering the anti-establishment movement, but most posts hit out hard at WP, blaming it for triggering the by-election.
Even anti-establishment website Temasek Times has joined the fray. Recent posts on the by-election display uncharacteristic sympathy and support for the PAP's Mr Choo.
The emergence of these anti-WP posts is a marked departure from last year, when online vitriol was reserved mostly for the PAP.
National University of Singapore political science lecturer Reuben Wong said the stakes have gone up for the WP as it now has the biggest opposition presence in Parliament.
And some supporters are unhappy over its recent missteps such as in the handling of the Yaw Shin Leong saga. The former Hougang MP had refused to come clean on allegations of extramarital affairs.
Noting that more pro-establishment voices were being heard online, Mr Andrew Loh, editor of Publichouse.sg, said: 'People realise that social media is here to stay, and whether they like it or not, they have to get on it.'
In the past, misinformation about the party may have circulated freely in cyberspace, but these days, PAP MPs and activists do their part to counter them. An example is the recent storm that erupted over a photograph showing Mr Choo seemingly snubbing WP's Png Eng Huat's handshake at the Nomination Centre.
Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-Jin was quick to post on Facebook another picture of the moment showing Mr Choo clasping Mr Png's hands, noting that the encounter was the complete opposite of the first picture.
Dr Wong said, however, that being active was not the same as being effective: 'It remains to be seen if the PAP's countermeasures gain traction among netizens.'
http://www.straitstimes.com/The-Big-Story/The-Big-Story-2/Story/STIStory_801519.html
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
Online debate more even-handed than during GE
By Teo Wan GekThe online debate on the Hougang campaign is more even-handed compared to the overwhelmingly negative slant against the ruling party during last year's general election, say observers.
A year ago, nearly every act or comment by the People's Action Party (PAP) came under attack, while the Workers' Party (WP) was largely unscathed.
But a year on, political watchers notice a shift in cyberspace. While the PAP continues to be fair game, the WP has also garnered its share of critics.
They say the change is due to two main factors.
Firstly, many from the PAP camp are more organised about defending the party, with the setting-up of online sites such as 'Fabrications about the PAP'.
Secondly, netizens are beginning to demand more from the WP following its historic breakthrough of garnering a GRC and winning six seats in all.
Socio-political blogger Siew Kum Hong said: 'The WP has grown and bears the weight of increased expectations, so naturally criticism of the WP has increased.'
On the PAP mobilising more effectively online, most watchers cite the Fabrications page as one that has gained traction and also the role played by politicians themselves to be online.
Said Mr Siew: 'I would attribute the new partisan pro-PAP voices to their activists and supporters.'
Fabrications went online last September, and is now endorsing the PAP's candidate for Hougang, Mr Desmond Choo. Its posts include photo collages of him on the campaign trail and anti-WP posts.
Another website, SG Hard Truth, claims to give a balanced and fair view countering the anti-establishment movement, but most posts hit out hard at WP, blaming it for triggering the by-election.
Even anti-establishment website Temasek Times has joined the fray. Recent posts on the by-election display uncharacteristic sympathy and support for the PAP's Mr Choo.
The emergence of these anti-WP posts is a marked departure from last year, when online vitriol was reserved mostly for the PAP.
National University of Singapore political science lecturer Reuben Wong said the stakes have gone up for the WP as it now has the biggest opposition presence in Parliament.
And some supporters are unhappy over its recent missteps such as in the handling of the Yaw Shin Leong saga. The former Hougang MP had refused to come clean on allegations of extramarital affairs.
Noting that more pro-establishment voices were being heard online, Mr Andrew Loh, editor of Publichouse.sg, said: 'People realise that social media is here to stay, and whether they like it or not, they have to get on it.'
In the past, misinformation about the party may have circulated freely in cyberspace, but these days, PAP MPs and activists do their part to counter them. An example is the recent storm that erupted over a photograph showing Mr Choo seemingly snubbing WP's Png Eng Huat's handshake at the Nomination Centre.
Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-Jin was quick to post on Facebook another picture of the moment showing Mr Choo clasping Mr Png's hands, noting that the encounter was the complete opposite of the first picture.
Dr Wong said, however, that being active was not the same as being effective: 'It remains to be seen if the PAP's countermeasures gain traction among netizens.'
http://www.straitstimes.com/The-Big-Story/The-Big-Story-2/Story/STIStory_801519.html
O rly?
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Whatever, I just hate male politician who cry, it gives you the hair rising fear of their weakness when the hard knock arrive.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
Whatever, I just hate male politician who cry, it gives you the hair rising fear of their weakness when the hard knock arrive.
This by election got people cry meh?
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example
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wat a sissy
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I thot I read that Choo cried in his last speech, as tho like going to die..haiz, hougang only mah?? most probably cried because if lost, his future in doubts, only an assist director, poor chap
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sure they will line up other jobs for him
PAP iron bowl leh
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Originally posted by lce:
wat a sissy
cry becos can't face reality he was being sabotage from inside and out.