ALERT! PAP REGIME MIGHT CALL FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS IN 2009!
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Is a general election this year now confirmed?
Did Mediacorp cock up and let the cat out of the bag? Is a general election this year confirmed?
Look at this screen shot from 9:36 pm, Thursday, 19 February 2009. When I saw it, I called Choo Zheng Xi of The Online Citizen immediately and he got exactly the same page, so that I have a witness. He took a screen shot too.
What about it? Look at the page title -– it says "General Election 2009". The contents though are from 2006. Ask yourself: Why would a page from 2006 carry a title that references 2009?
The only explanation I can think of is that Mediacorp is preparing all their websites to support an election. The easiest thing to do, as any webmaster knows, is to recycle previously designed pages.
So that's what's happening -– they are in the process of updating and recycling, but forgot that the pages are still "live". As a result, we can see the work in progress.
But if there is work in progress, does it mean the election is a sure thing?
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The Straits Times today (19 Feb 2009) carried a front page story headlined "Changes made to polling districts". The gist of it was that the Elections Department has issued as statement saying that changes have been made to boundaries of polling districts. A polling district is a neighbourhood that shares one polling station. The boundary changes are necessary for logistical reasons, so that the numbers of voters are not too many for any particular polling station to handle.
Usually, as the newspaper reported, changes to polling districts are followed by another announcement, concerning changes to boundaries of electoral constituencies, a few weeks or a few months later. The longest lag time in recent memory was six months in 1997. And that is usually the signal for a general election.
On Tuesday, 17 February, the Elections Department had also announced that the electoral register was being updated, an exercise that should be completed by 30 April. While updating electoral rolls is said to be routine, boundary changes are widely believed to be indicative of an upcoming general election.
However, there is no need to finish updating the electoral rolls before calling an election. If the government calls for a snap election, they'll just use the old register.
Despite this, the Straits Times found many politicians and political watchers unsure how soon an election would be. The next one isn't due until 2012. Member of Parliament Ong Ah Heng tried to dismiss speculation:
Nee Soon Central MP Ong Ah Heng saw yesterday's announcement as a 'normal procedure' and thought a snap election highly unlikely.
'The earliest will be next year. But it depends very much on the economy and when we can overcome the recession,' he said.
'The Government is now concentrating its energy on helping workers and companies. Where is there energy for a general election?'
Mr Ong, who has not set up his election committee, added that the Government was mindful of the widespread impact of the recession, including on many middle- and upper-middle-income Singaporeans.
So he felt the Government would 'consider very carefully' and wait for signs of a recovery before calling an election.-- Straits Times, 19 February 2009,
Changes made to polling districtsOther political watchers were also guarded:
Agreeing, political analyst Eugene Tan said holding the polls now would be a distraction. Besides, people had yet to see the impact of measures passed in the Budget.
Sociologist Terence Chong, like Joo Chiat MP Chan Soo Sen, argued that the Government is getting processes ready in order to call an election at any time.
'The best you can say is that they are putting the pieces in place so that there is an option, and if the (economic) forecast is very gloomy, they may call one before things get worse,' Mr Chong said.
Preparations began last November when public servants selected to be election officers were sent letters informing them of training they will receive. Schools have also been designated as polling centres.-- ibid.
Yawning Bread had revealed in a January article that there is insider talk about a snap election. The article Why there mustn't be an election this year offered my view that holding an election now can only mean two things: Either the People's Action Party wants to ride a "flight to safety" effect to sweep all opposition away, regaining a monopoly of parliamentary seats -- a most undemocratic motive, if you ask me -- or the government has no confidence at all that the economy will improve by 2011. The latter will mean a very long and painful recession.
Mediacorp, in preparing its website, may also believe that an election is imminent. The unknown is: Are they doing it based on their own gut feel and mere preparedness, or have they been told to get their website ready by a certain date? Either way, it looks like an election this year and not later.
© Yawning Bread
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Parliamentary Elections possible from May to Nov 2009
Written by Ng E-Jay
20 Feb 2009Snap parliamentary elections are now possible from May to November 2009, and quite likely as early as May to July 2009.
The Government gazette published the boundaries of altered polling districts on Wednesday, just a day after the Elections Department announced that the Register of Voters is being revised.
According to the Elections Department website, online services such as checking the Register of Electors or applying for restoration of name are suspended temporarily, and are expected to resume around 3 March 2009. Visitors may check back within 14 days from 3 March 2009, to ensure that their particulars in the revised Register of Electors are correct.
Polling district changes are usually published before the Government sets up a committee to review and draw up the boundaries of constituencies.
Historical experience reveals that there is a time lag of as much as 6 months between the publication of the polling district changes and the release of the committee’s Electoral Boundaries Report which details the number and size of single-member and group representation constituencies.
General elections tend to follow soon after the Electoral Boundaries Report, within a 3 month timeframe. This makes elections quite possible within the next 9 months.
Snap elections as early as May - July 2009 are likely as the PAP may want to tap into the heightened climate of fear and uncertainty. In 2001 when elections were held just two months after the 911 terrorist attacks and in the midst of a recession, the PAP secured 75.29% of the valid vote.
The legislations governing the conduct of the Parliamentary Elections are:
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
Snap elections as early as May - July 2009 are likely as the PAP may want to tap into the heightened climate of fear and uncertainty. In 2001 when elections were held just two months after the 911 terrorist attacks and in the midst of a recession, the PAP secured 75.29% of the valid vote.
So...
Did PAP knew about the 911 attacks before it happened, and planned the snap elections that way to tap into the climate of fear? Or are they super efficient and started planning for the snap elections immediately after the attacks? When would the next scheduled elections for 2001 if there was no snap elections?
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So...
So it means that those who support opposition must step up their propaganda attacks against PAP regime!
It's elections year.
I will be increasing my propaganda attacks against PAP regime from now on.
Can't let them fuck around for another 5 years.
Must teach them a lesson.
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Opposition are only active during election, sure they get hell of alot to be excited and anxious about it. It show time for them, but usually after the showtime, they will run like mouse and disappear out of sight. To us laygals and layguys, election or no election also same same...got extra holiday hor
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
So it means that those who support opposition must step up their propaganda attacks against PAP regime!
It's elections year.
I will be increasing my propaganda attacks against PAP regime from now on.
Can't let them fuck around for another 5 years.
Must teach them a lesson.
i bet you will be around for another 5 years cursing on them again, me bet you to a million bucks. PAP wins.U teach them a lesson??? Oh my gosh!!! after 5 years of them teach you so much lesson, you still not learnt yet.
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U teach them a lesson??? Oh my gosh!!! after 5 years of them teach you so much lesson, you still not learnt yet.
PAP regime taught me what lesson?
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
PAP regime taught me what lesson?
1. to pay your water bill on time2. to pay your electrical bill on time
3. to pay your property tax on time
4. to pay your tv n radio license on time
5. to pay your income tax on time
6. to collect your rebate and progressive package in time
and the most important thing they hv taught you is
keep quiet and life will be happier for all
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keep quiet and life will be happier for all
Maybe you should do that in this forum.
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Hell is about to open its gates..
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Hell is about to open its gates..
It should.
Sleeping in parliament, pay themselves millions, talk cock to public.
No public pressure, so become like that.
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well, i can see a shakeup in the horizon IF the bloody idiots in SDP do not screw it up again..
the last few, they distracted, attention-whored and detracted the whole elections away from the policies and all that and people were disgusted and disillusioned by the opposition just as much as the MIW... as a result, the MIW won...
now.. i hope and pray that the charlatans and attention whores stay the hell away and shut the hell up so that we can have a proper showing
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Originally posted by the Bear:
well, i can see a shakeup in the horizon IF the bloody idiots in SDP do not screw it up again..
the last few, they distracted, attention-whored and detracted the whole elections away from the policies and all that and people were disgusted and disillusioned by the opposition just as much as the MIW... as a result, the MIW won...
now.. i hope and pray that the charlatans and attention whores stay the hell away and shut the hell up so that we can have a proper showing
Let Worker's Party display its magic properly
Let them win Aljunied GRC
Only thing, I'm not in an exciting GRC... nothing much to see and do... boring... can only sit down watch show wait for results, then still continue on with work
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
So it means that those who support opposition must step up their propaganda attacks against PAP regime!
It's elections year.
I will be increasing my propaganda attacks against PAP regime from now on.
Can't let them fuck around for another 5 years.
Must teach them a lesson.
yay.... More propaganda... So cannot complain if PAP propaganda... cos opposition likes propaganda...
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Ah fear of losing its grip due to eonomic slowdown so the losers may try to fast forward the rigged election to avoid bigger losses had it been done later.
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Originally posted by Worldlybusinessman:
Hell is about to open its gates..
And into the mouth of the Lion of Judah. That was yummy lol. what was it called? Braised LKY and famiLEE? -
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
PAP regime taught me what lesson?
how long has it been since the last elections?
who made headlines and for what reasons? you can say its propaganda, but people still have to take that shit if they want to read/view media in singapore.Your propaganda on the other hand isn't reaching the group you need to reach.
despite what people think of the pap you still see them doing stuff in the community, they do it all year round. i don't fuckin like them but who do you think woke me up in the morning shook my hand before the whole thing even registered in my brain in an area thats had a walkover for my entire living memory?
if next 5 years you get people to go to an area to volunteer, help out, get them jobs, do some networking i stll believe you have a chance but now?
always complain grc stop you, but i don't see anyone getting around the grc during non election times.
even people you know personally are well disposed to help you only if you've done something to register in their memories. why then do you think someone who don't know who you are are going to leave their lives in your hands just because you preach "liberty and political freedom"<--- something i personally don't fuckin believe a certain party represents with their outrageous behaviour. how can someone who rejects anyone else with a different view represents "liberty"?
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
So it means that those who support opposition must step up their propaganda attacks against PAP regime!
It's elections year.
I will be increasing my propaganda attacks against PAP regime from now on.
Can't let them fuck around for another 5 years.
Must teach them a lesson.
your propaganda only makes things worse, you'll do better promising things you can't furfill.
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Nah, probably will have a few more years before the actual election, so can start doing whatever shit you want now beh.
Called some friends. Make sure one of them is a girl, one is a malay/indian. Make sure they are scandal free, and capable enough to be high management in whatever profession they are doing. Also make sure they have no impulse to break the law wilfully.
Walk around the neighbourhood you intend to campaign for. Talk to people. Tell them your plans if you get elected. Be proactive in giving advice and helping people, even to the extend of meeting with MPs to solve the issue. Repeat for years. And you are winner!
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
Can't let them fuck around for another 5 years.
i think you are going to be disappointed.....
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PAP = PAP smear
apparently some women enjoy it
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Originally posted by skythewood:
...................Called some friends. Make sure one of them is a girl, one is a malay/indian. Make sure they are scandal free, and capable enough to be high .......................you intend to campaign for. Talk to people. Tell them your plans if.................to the extend of meeting with MPs to solve the issue. Repeat for years. And you are winner!
may i know which planet are you from? -
Originally posted by redDUST:
may i know which planet are you from?than what do you suggest?
You can follow the CSJ style which might work in bizarro world... Make baseless accusations to the point of slander, get sued. Do more stupid stuff, go to jail. And drag your party along with it.
Seriously, suggest something better before putting down any ideas. I put down the CSJ style, but i offered another route... What about you?
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Originally posted by skythewood:
than what do you suggest?
You can follow the CSJ style which might work in bizarro world... Make baseless accusations to the point of slander, get sued. Do more stupid stuff, go to jail. And drag your party along with it.
Seriously, suggest something better before putting down any ideas. I put down the CSJ style, but i offered another route... What about you?
what i am implying is it is too simplistic to describe what you just did and end up a `winner' as you said.
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Well, it is believed that everyone goes straight to hell for all the sins committed when they were alive. The ones (or saints)who has never committed a single sin in their lives supposedly becomes deities in heaven. Once the spirits have completed their ’sentence’ in hell, they’ll be reincarnated into the mortal world again (no guarantees that you’ll come back as a human). Nonetheless, the 7th lunar month is a break for the nether world. Not only the tortured spirits get to come back to Earth, the ‘guards’ of hell come out for a ‘vacation’ as well. It is during this time, the chinese burn offerings for their ancestors. The chinese temples would organise activites to give offerings to the ‘guards’ and god of the underworld as well as to those wandering spirits who have no living relatives on Earth. Those ‘dinners’ and ‘getais’ (Chinese operas or mini-concerts) are held for 2 purposes, to entertain the spirits and guards as well as raise money for the needy.
