Will there be a transformation?

[Jasonjst]

Will there be a transformation?

fr yahoo news

 

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporesc...-062335212.html

 

I think the answer is obvious.

 

 

[Sunlight]

yes, there will be small changes....the strategy will be seem to be doing something, but not commit to it

will be interesting to see what happens when LKY kicks the bucket

[Wt_know]

after losing election only, all start backfiring already saying the p&p did not listen to people, arrogant, too much intellectual reasoning (is it hdb?), must transform, bla bla bla

 

as if they never 'notice' people resentment until the 2 weeks of campaign ... what a joke right

Edited May 11, 2011 by Wt_know

[Maxus-MIFA9]

Will there be a transformation?

fr yahoo news

 

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporesc...-062335212.html

 

I think the answer is obvious.

how to transform when plans had been put in place last year .............

 

don't tell me that they are going to reduce the new hdb price by 50%, subsidice medical fee by 50% and put more trains on the track ......

 

it had been reported that FT will still continue to come to Singapore ....

 

[Csnewbie]

if there is any fault,Mickey will always say we have forgotten our past,our struggle.

 

how can be PAP's fault?

 

with such mentality,honestly we can't expect change lah.Frens!

[Mockngbrd]

Transform from we make them say solly to they make us say solly lo

[Whathefish]

Transformation? Singaporeans are given a chance on 7 May but never make use of the chance well enough...who to blame and now we expect them to change?

[Sw20]

Don't blame the party... blame the people who voted for them...

[Topgun]

Taken off theonlinecitizen fb: an online article from Lowy Institute for International Policy:

 

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2011/0...going-back.aspx

 

Singapore elections: No going back by Michael Barr - 10 May 2011 9:45AM

 

Michael Barr is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Flinders University.

 

Singapore went to the polls on 7 May 2011 and delivered the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) Government its worst result since 1963, both in terms of the proportion of votes and the number of seats taken by the Opposition.

 

Despite all the institutional advantages that guaranteed a PAP victory, the party's vote went down to 60.14%, from 66.6% in 2006 and 75% in 2001. The Opposition's capture of seats went up to six, from two in 2006 and 2001. For only the second time since 1963, a Cabinet Minister lost his seat; two ministers, actually, plus the candidate slated to be the next Speaker of Parliament.

 

So why was Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong smiling so broadly afterwards? Because he knew that it could easily have been much, much worse. His party won one constituency by a mere 114 votes and another by 382 votes, and the feared wholesale collapse of support in a four-member constituency (Holland-Bukit-Timah) failed to eventuate, so net losses were restricted to four seats.

 

A bad result does not look so bad when compared to a disastrous result. It also does not hurt that he managed to increase his personal vote to the point where he can avert a lot of criticism that might otherwise be directed towards him.

 

Yet there is no doubt that the little world of Singapore politics changed on 7 May. The world's most successful marriage of modern capitalism and electoral authoritarianism has just been tripped up.

 

One of the most significant institutional blows landed by the Opposition was that, for the first time, they won a Group Representation Constituency (GRC). The introduction of these multi-member constituencies in 1988 is one of the most notorious mechanisms at the Government's disposal for throttling opposition challenges.

 

Up to six candidates have to stand as a team in each GRC in a winner-take-all election. Apart from relatively normal institutional barriers presented by the GRC electoral system such as teams of candidates having to pay deposits of $64

[Good-Carbuyer]

Will there be a transformation?

fr yahoo news

 

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporesc...-062335212.html

 

I think the answer is obvious.

I believe there will be transformation, if they believe they did not get it right this time (laugh)

[Hypermiler]

yes, there will be small changes....the strategy will be seem to be doing something, but not commit to it

will be interesting to see what happens when LKY kicks the bucket

 

 

All the pubs and drinking holes in town and in the heartlands, in the repentent GRCs and slums will be full-house.

 

[Cheepo]

EVen if all the ministers are replaced there will still be no significant transformation.

 

Why?

 

Because it is still the same civil service running the show.

 

Good luck to all of us !!