What PAP must do to win next election??
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For the coming election, I hope to see from PAP...
Key Value Proposition
1) Increment to employer CPF percentage
2) Higher tax rebate
3) No more increment for basic utilities (water, electricity, and transportation) for the next 3 years. Better still, set a limit to the increment no more than 50% of CPI.
Optional Proposition
1) Removal of stupid 30 years time bar for private property owners to buy directly from HDB
2) Removal of stupid $8000 household income ceiling
Contributions anyone?
P.S. If you're a PAP member from Marine Parade, please bring this up to the MP (assuming the government doesn't redraw the boundaries and I end up somewhere belonging to Hougang) -
well ...
to be cynical, ... and to be honest ... nothing ...
they'd have enough walk-overs to form a goverment the moment the nominations are closed and tallied anyways .... -
i can bet my balls on a definate answer: nothing. they always win.
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Like I've said; PAP might as well just DO AWAY with election and all this wayanging.
Just stay in power until come what may lah.. I don't give a #@$!. -
you guys are missing the point... nobody is doubting that PAP will win but what do you think PAP should do to get a true landslide mandate (not the self proclaim, fake mandate)
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has been in control for the past 40 years.Originally posted by vito_corleone:i can bet my balls on a definate answer: nothing. they always win.
has any other political parties in the rest of the world rule as long as we? -
The Alliance Party in Malaysia has been in Power for quite long too.
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If you are the ruling party and you have a strong opposition party, then you have to promise certain policy to win more votes from the citizens.
In this case, the ruling party have implemented certain policy and there are no signs that they will change due to the election.
There is also no sign that they will be having any strong opposition for the coming election.
They can only offered certain goodies such as opening of a MRT station or HDB upgrade.
So, there is actually nothing the ruling party must do. -
Do they even need to do anything?
Without them our property prices will drop... -
lower electrical tariff.
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Building MRT stations or HDB upgrades, these are all done with Singaporean taxpayers' money anyway.Originally posted by Medicated Oil:If you are the ruling party and you have a strong opposition party, then you have to promise certain policy to win more votes from the citizens.
In this case, the ruling party have implemented certain policy and there are no signs that they will change due to the election.
There is also no sign that they will be having any strong opposition for the coming election.
They can only offered certain goodies such as opening of a MRT station or HDB upgrade.
So, there is actually nothing the ruling party must do.
It's like giving them money and then they come back to you and say vote for them so that I can return these money back to you. -
They sit down shake leg can liao lar... opposition no hope one...
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well, there's the CCP, the viet cong (southern half only in 1975), the russian commies lasted longer, though they are gone now, north korea ... and papa castro in cuba, Mexico's quasi democratic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lasted from the 20s till 2000 ... and how can we forget, our dear friends to the north ? ...Originally posted by Gordonator:has been in control for the past 40 years.
has any other political parties in the rest of the world rule as long as we? -
Sue everyone who comes to election
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The script will take on a softer but more effective psychological conditioning approach to the public...No more chest thumping and propaganda harangue on loyalty, quitters/stayers, teamwork, multi-racial, more good years, economic progress, shouting matches of past generations as these have positive-negative, coersive and fear connotations that are highly debatable, given the better educated new voters.
Work on the values attitudes and lifestyles. To motivate the public with more material comfort, bigger cars, education. nevermind if everything else is more expensive. Have a more subtle approach with a tinge of hipness and individuality to attract the young. People have become more self-centred, not group-centric. E.g. 'everyone has a place in Singapore!'
Hence, the profile of those supporting the main party are associated with well balanced, educated professionals with stable income and family oriented values => these suggests a progressive individual with 'greater good years' in a global world surrounded by all the material needs. Nevermind if he has to regress into a kowtowing dog to the same top down machinaries. Afterall, it is going to be the year of the dog.
While those old, poor, single, fringe type, spiteful, lunatics, idealist, jobless and what nots go with the opposition =>losers fighting their own demons in a cave. However, all is not lost as compassionate baby steps to 'deliver' them from their plight and have a red/blue/white ribbon campaign (comes with a trendy wrist band) to re-integrate them back into mainstream behaviours is provided.
Hence, one will always know the majority party as the omnipresent and magnanimous machine, with daily news reports of all the good people and things that are being done. It blends with the current affairs, tabloids and the trends of current lifestyle needs and wants. This will also prevent any sane joe from challenging the boundaries and risk losing what the Jones are enjoying. Keep them preoccupied or striving for more material glut, nevermind if one will never have a voice, or to understand the meaning of democracy; as Pavlov needs to only salivate and not bark. Finally, these could very well be explained to bothersome foreign critiques as 'uniquely Singaporean traits' that sync well with centuries old Asian cultures and values like old emperors atop their loyal subjects, focus on the splendid white robe, not the decadence. A common analogy would be for one to select 2 differently programmed slot machines that kaching one into the richer/poorer divide, so its your choise. and don't forget the privilege membership to the opulent casino, or would one rather be those mingling outside, raising placards and staging protests?Originally posted by anonymouscoward:you guys are missing the point... nobody is doubting that PAP will win but what do you think PAP should do to get a true landslide mandate (not the self proclaim, fake mandate)