Having my say on 2011 election
Monday, May 02, 2011
As stated on the title, I have successfully cultivate an interest on this upcoming election. It's kind of interesting how politicians argued among themselves and some even portray how shallow they are like seriously a joke. Anyway, I'm saying abt my GRC aljunied between P and the wp.
It all started during tea time with my mum. She asked me if I were to vote who would I vote for? I thought for awhile then I told her ridiculously, ' for the bigger picture I would vote for wp cos I think they deserve aljunied and it's unfair and definitely to our disadvantaged if the whole Singapore comes under one democratic party. But on the other hand, it is so clear that only those estates under P are priviledged enough to enjoy benefits by the govt like lift upgrading etc(honestly I really don't see the need, I'm quite satisfied with the main lift my block had but mum said it's to help the elderly so I guess it's not as bad as I thought).
Then our conversation proceeds actually the goverment is not as good and fair as I thought. I started my education journey in P a government kindergarden and I always thought P is the best and we should just rely on them. But hey I was wrong. I was kinda displeased to know that because P has more goverment representatives in the parliament, the govt then give more attention and welfare benefits to the estates under them. The opposition parties? They are left to fend own their own with little funds provided by the govt. The evidences are clear with potong pasir and hougang being the what I presumed oldest estates because there were hardly any upgrading purely cos they are not under the P. To me it's kinda unfair, like what the online comment mentioned, all singaporeans paid gst and income tax to the govt, shouldn't all singaporeans be treated equally regardless of who is representing you?
Then I just realised actually serangoon used to be under marine parade. And because 5 years ago, the aljunied at that time was almost lost to the opposition party and 2 or 3 years ltr, the government redraw the electoral boundaries and transferred the marine parade supporters( at that time pro p) to dilute the opposition strength. Like how unfair can it be? Then there was this comment I saw on tv when the wp comment sth like 'ming zhi Shan you hu, pian Xiang hu Shan xing' which means it's a dangerous ventures. Even my mum who haven't study much also get what the wp means that they left hougang to fight for aljunied which can cause them to lose everything, even their hg territory. I think the wp is really applaudable, my opinion. Funny how people can read it as thinking the opposition portray them as tigers. Hello, a minister. A joke.
To me, it's clear who is the right one to vote for but too bad, I didn't have the chance to. And honestly I'm not out to criticise the govt just that it's really disturbing how they kind of bully the weaker and make me doubt the democratic system in Singapore. It's always good to have some opposition parties in the parliament cos if they were to be wiped out, we will really lose our say and jolly becomes the govt puppet.