Singapore Democrats

Well done but please tell Mr Tan Jee Say not to contest in the By election. We don't want him to split the opposition votes and let the PAP win Hougang. If he still want to contest, tell him to join WP and run under the WP banner instead. But a 3 corner Fight will only benefit the PAP. Please oh please tell him. We have nothing against him at all. Let PAP versus WP and not PAP versus WP versus TJS.

You have done the right thing. I am very proud of you guys!
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One of the reasons for my own interest in any impending by-election in Hougang is to test a certain theory that had been swirling around in the dominant opposition circles that GRCs are unnecessary on the basis that the PAP’s justification for GRCs – that minority race representation must be guaranteed – is a moot point. Singaporeans, according to this theory, are so pure, virginal and virtuous that they do not vote along racial lines, and minority race candidates can always be assured that they will be elected purely on the basis of merit. (Kenneth Jeyaratnam: please take note.)

Even the WP subscribes to this view.

But, ironically, it is even the WP that believes in this theory that the same electorate has thus far been so untainted by those foreign ills like racism, that has only ever fielded a Teochew-speaking candidate in Hougang. Surely, for such an electorate – according to opposition theory – if race does not matter, then neither would the language that the candidate can speak. I’m quite certain that an MP’s services, even in Hougang, is not mostly delivered in Teochew.

In the spirit of the above, I am polling readers here for who they would prefer as a candidate in a by-election in Hougang. (I take that readers here and elsewhere don’t believe that Hougang belongs to the WP,)

Should it be the SDP’s Vincent Wijeysingha, James Gomez, or another SDP candidate at GE2011 like Sadasivam Veriyah?

Oh, but the SDP has already stated that it will not contest this by-election.

Scratch that.

Then, what about Kenneth Jeyaratnam who believes in the purity of thought that he claims exists in the Singapore population? The RP, after all, has not made a decision on contesting this by-election.

Or better still, what about the NSP’s Jeisilan Sivalingam – the blackest, and the least Christian (ie. the least “white”) of the blacks, not too different from the SDP’s Sadasivam Veriyah except for his party’s decision?

But for those who believe that only the WP can win back Hougang, why not L. Somasundaram, the WP’s token Indian candidate fielded in Moulmein-Kallang GRC?

I, personally, vote for either L. Somasundaram or Jeisilan Sivalingam because I know they, among all the candidates I mentioned above, will defintely lose in a one-to-one contest against an ethnic Chinese candidate from the PAP, perhaps even a Teochew-speaking one.

I vote for an end to hypocrisy.