Sunday, April 30, 2006

The show begins

I am really glad that under the current illegal "walkover" scheme, we do have the PAP WOMPs holding less than 50% of the seats. I was tickled to see the facial reaction of PAP secretary general when he had to earn his seat in parliament. Having been elected into parliament only twice in 1984 and 1988 (with a statistically insignificant lower percentage and real vote), LHL has to earn his right to be an MP and a PM.

1984:
Teck Ghee (16,866)
Giam Lai Cheng UPF 3,123 19.62
Lee Hsien Loong PAP 12,794 80.38

1988:
Teck Ghee (15,510)
Lee Hsien Loong PAP 11,512 79.13
Patrick Leong S C INDP 3,037 20.87

1991:
Ang Mo Kio (74,004)
Lau Ping Sum PAP walkover
Lee Hsien Loong
Umar Abdul Hamid
Yeo Toon Chia

1997:
Ang Mo Kio (125,344)
Lee Hsien Loong PAP walkover
Seng Han Thong
Inderjit Singh
Tan Boon Wan
Tang Guan Seng

2001:
Ang Mo Kio (166,644)
Inderjit Singh PAP walkover
Lee Hsien Loong
Sadasivan Balaji
Seng Han Thong
Tan Boon Wan
Wee Siew Kim


Unfortunately, I cannot cast my vote where I live. Some PAP WOMP is going to claim to represent me. Dude, you were never voted in. Live with that reality. If you want a mandate, work within your party and do the right thing.

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