NSP@Tampines

Thank you to all the 42.78% of the residents that voted for us.

2011-05-09T15:55:00.000+08:00

I would like to say a big thank you for all those who have supported us through out the election. We hope that the residents of Tampines will continue to support us for the next coming election (if there are no 3 corner fight).

Regards
NSP Tampines GRC Team

Response to Mah Bow Tan

2011-05-05T23:45:00.004+08:00

I am very disappointed with Mr. Mah Bow Tan's "rebuttal" on the Housing Issues.

First of all, he has chosen to do so at the very last rally while refusing to take up the challenge of having a Live TV Debate. I could understand why because his so call rebuttals cannot hold water at all.

First of all, we are not saying that Singaporeans cannot use their CPF money to buy HDB flats. We are just saying with a 30 year mortgage, there will be little money left for retirement! It seems that Mr. Mah Bow Tan either chooses to side step this problem or deliberately mislead voters about our manifesto.

Secondly, he claims that our flats sold at Cost Plus will have to be sold at the same amount and all units will look the same. This is the most uncreative way of thinking and rebuttals. We could still build very different flats with different costings but yet, selling at Cost Plus. Yes, the sales price will be different but still, it is Cost Price system.

Thirdly, he still insists that such flats cannot increase in value. I do not understand how he come to that conclusion since the resale market will still be there.

I am totally disappointed with such rebuttals as I was expecting something much better. Anyway, it is up for Voters of Tampines to decide.

Goh Meng Seng

Info for Polling & Counting Agent Volunteers

2011-05-05T10:53:00.004+08:00

If you’re keen to help us out as polling agents and counting agents, please drop by NSP HQ tomorrow, Friday 6th May at 6:30pm.

You will still be able to vote even if you choose to volunteer as a counting/ polling agent.

As we are expecting a crowd at the HQ, do drop by before 7:30pm for the briefing and oath taking.

NRIC will be required.

Time: 6:30pm

Address: 397 Jalan Besar Singapore 209007

If any doubts, please email to nsptampines@gmail.com

Thank you very much.

Goh Meng Seng Speech on 4 May 2011 Tampines

2011-05-05T08:22:00.001+08:00

NSP Rally @ Tampines Stadium 7pm - 10pm (4 May)

2011-05-03T09:25:00.003+08:00

Residents of Tampines, NSP Rally @ Tampines will be held on 7pm Wednesday, 4th May. Please come over and give us your support. Listen to what we got to say.

For Tampines, For Singapore.

Goh Meng Seng Speech on 2 May 2011 Moutbatten

2011-05-03T00:33:00.002+08:00

The elections are getting HOT. Someone just torn off our posters put on our trucks and some of our supporters have been throwing stones at PAP posters in Tampines. I would like to urge our supporters to keep calm. We can afford to lose this elections but not our dignity.

BG Tan Chuan Jin (陈川仁), PAP candidate of Marine Parade has said many things lately. Before Nomination Day, he has challenged opposition party not just talk or wayang but go and contest in MP. Now, after NSP sent a team to contest in MP, he is saying that NSP is wayang!

I believe that a General like Tan Chuan Jin would not want to be just PAPER GENERAL and definitely he won’t want to HIDE behind a so-call HEAVY WEIGHT in MP GRC. IF he is really dying for a good fight, he should have offered himself to stand in a SMC! Regrettably he is now hiding in MP GRC. I really don’t know who is wayang!

As I have stated in our first MP rally, the STRATEGIC reason is to extract ACCOUNTABILITY from SM Goh Chok Tong for his past bad policies which are turning Singapore from a country to a COMPANY. Do you want accountability from Goh Chok Tong?

BG Tan also said that NSP doesn’t know the people in MP. I have to ask our dear general, as a ROOKIE candidate in MP, how much does he know about MP voters? Has he knocked every door? I guess most of the incumbent PAP MPs who are paid more than $14,000 a month didn’t even knock every door!

Alright, let’s not be distracted by our General Tan from the real issues at hand.

We are having a PAP system which is SUCKING every drop of blood we have in the name of AFFORDABILITY. Right from Healthcare, Transport to Housing. Especially for housing which is the most expensive item that Singaporeans have to buy.

Mah Bow Tan says that the length of your mortgage doesn’t really matter. If you can have the FALSE SENSE of affordability of having 30 years mortgage as it is “cheaper” to pay each month, please go ahead.

BUT, my Dear Minister, do you know that by having 30 years mortgage instead of 5, 10 or 20 years, we are going to be paying more COMPOUNDED interests?

Do you know that WE will not be able to RETIRE 30 years later if ALL our CPF money is used to pay for your EXPENSIVE HDB flat? 1 Our WHOLE GENERAL will be ENSLAVED by your 30 years mortgage!

If Mah Bow Tan continues his pricing mechanism pegging NEW HDB flats to resale market prices, we will definitely end up with 40, 50 or even 100 years mortgage! Why?

Anyone with just that bit of common sense will know that ASSET INFLATION is always MUCH HIGHER than NORMAL INFLATION. It is also a fact that as compared to 1990, our income has only increased by 2 times BUT HDB resale prices have increased by FOUR TIMES!

Moreover, according to some reports, prices for NEW HDB flats have increased almost 70% for the pass 6 years but median income has only grown by 37.7% and worse, the lower income group only grows only at 22.6% for the whole decade of 2000 to 2010!

Pegging prices of NEW HDB FLATS to resale market prices will definitely erode the ability of our younger and future generations to own their home!

NSP has come up with a more viable pricing mechanism for NEW HDB FLATS. We are advocating pegging the prices of New HDB FLATS to the COST of building the flat plus a hefty discount on the land prices. This will eradicate the UNFAIR impact of ASSET INFLATION RATE while taking into account of the Normal Inflation rate through the cost of building the flats.

Only by adopting NSP pricing mechanism for new HDB flats, the REAL affordability for any generations of Singaporeans will be secured.

Our forefathers have made sacrifices by giving up their lands to PAP government at DIRT CHEAP PRICES. Don’t you think that the PAP has the SOCIAL OBLIGATION to ensure Singaporeans, generations after generations, should have a CHEAP ROOF over their heads?

If you want to secure the future of your children, your grandchildren, your great grand children, You will have to make your stand clearly on 7 May.

If you don’t want to be ENSLAVED by PAP’s 30 or even 40 years mortgage in time to come, please vote NSP.

If you don’t want your future generations to SELL their flats for retirement, you will have to vote NSP.

And IF you do not want your future generations to continue to be THREATEN by PAP, which is fast becoming GOD which we need to repent to, VOTE more opposition members into parliament.

Our FUTURE lies in your hands my fellow Singaporeans. VOTE NSP, YOUR VOICE, YOUR CHOICE, YOUR FUTURE.

Walkabout @ Blk 476 (1st May) 10AM

2011-04-30T19:11:00.002+08:00

Come down to Blk 476, where we will be having our Walkabout. We sincerely hope to meet more residents of Tampines.

See you there.

Walkabout @ Tampines Interchange 10 am (30 Apr)

2011-04-29T17:23:00.002+08:00

Its weekend tomorrow and we will be having our walkabout @ Tampines Interchange around 10 am. Residents that we do not have the opportunity to meet during the weekdays, we hope to meet you tomorrow. Let us share with you about our views and vice versa.

Support NSP. Thanks

Have a good weekend ahead!!!

NSP Rally @ Radin Mas SMC (29 Apr)

2011-04-29T16:48:00.003+08:00

Today, we are having our rally at Radin Mas. Few of the Tampines team candidates will be the presenting their speech tonight.

Time: 7pm - 10pm
Place: Delta Hockey Pitch, 900 Tiong Bahru Road

Funeral Wake of the Unsung Hero

2011-04-29T09:21:00.002+08:00

Dear Supporters,

The Funeral Wake of our Unsung Hero, David Goh Meng Hee, will be held at Tampines Street 71, Blk 721 from evening onwards. The family of the hero declines any press interviews or reporting. Please respect the privacy of the family. Your cooperation will be much appreciated.

NSP Tampines Team

Walkabout @ Blk 824 Tampines St 81 (29 Apr 2011)

2011-04-28T23:35:00.004+08:00

Residents of Tampines, we will be over at Blk 824 Tampines St 81 @ 10 am (29 Apr). Come interact and share your concerns with us.

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Press Conference

2011-04-28T11:32:00.002+08:00

We will be having Press Conference this noon 3:30 pm @ NSP HQ (397 Jalan Besar). More updates coming after that.

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Walkabout@ Block 137 Round market Tampines St 11

2011-04-28T08:23:00.001+08:00

Please do come and support us
Venue: Blk 137 Tampines Street 11
Time: 9:00am

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Back to Fundamentals

2011-04-26T13:19:00.007+08:00

Today is the eve of Nomination Day for GE 2011. I have mixed feelings within me.

Looking back, this is the 10th anniversary of my involvement in partisan politics. However, if I look deeper to my consciousness, the seed of political activism has been planted into me 20 to 30 years back.

Reading MM Lee's comment on going back to fundamentals and not "rock the foundations" of this Nation really make me feel more righteous about my involvement in opposition politics. I have told reporters that it was PAP which has "rocked" the very foundation which this Nation was founded upon.

The TWO main pillars of our nation's Core Values are:

1) Social Justice and Equality

2) Meritocracy

The most important reason why I decided to take the plunge into opposition politics is because I realize that PAP has eroded these fundamental principles. The final push comes in GE 1997 whereby Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong made used of HDB upgrading as the carrot in pork barrel politics, threatening voters (especially Cheng San voters like me) that if we do not vote for PAP, we will not have HDB upgrading.

In this one master stroke, PAP has destroyed the sense of Social Justice and Equality as well as the Spirit of Meritocracy. Whether a HDB flat needs upgrading or not should depend on the MERITS like the age of the building, conditions of the infrastructure etc and not about who the voters vote for or anything else. I fear for my children and Singapore's future generations to live under an environment that is devoid of such basic Social Moral principles. This is why I have chosen to fight against PAP to reinstate such basic Fundamentals which we have depended on for success.

While I was still an undergraduate back in early 1990s, I was furious about Goh Chok Tong's plan of "Asset Enhancement Scheme". The Goh's Administration sold the idea of having our assets increase in value but it has not mentioned about the prices of new HDB flats would go up as well. As an undergraduate waiting to graduate, get married and start up a home, I was furious but NO ONE represented us. I have written articles about the ills of this scheme which will result in inter-generation wealth gap but all fallen on death ears.

This is why I am prepared to encourage young people in their 20s to stand for Elections. I have experienced such desperation as a youngster who could only just sit down an watch politicians selling away the future of my generation, helplessly. I believe youngsters should play a role in this parliamentary system because many policies made by the ruling party will have long term great impact on our youngsters in 10, 20 or even 30 years to come.

It was PAP who have changed the fundamentals of HDB as public housing. PAP has discarded its social obligation as the ruling party in providing cheap or even subsidized housing for Singaporeans. They have forcefully acquired our forefathers' land at dirt cheap price and they should carry the social obligation to provide cheap public housing for our future generations. Instead, they are more interested in keep growing the National Reserves by selling land at high profits for building HDB flats!

Yes, MM Lee, it is about going back to fundamentals. PAP should do a deep self reflection on what went wrong with its fundamental principles of governance. PAP has lost its socialist roots along the way and now, it has lost the political moral high ground to talk about fundamentals.

Regards

Goh Meng Seng

Nomination Day (27 April 2011)

2011-04-26T12:09:00.001+08:00

Fellow Singaporeans of Tampines GRC,

Nomination Date is 27 April 2011
Time: 11am to 12noon.
Venue: Dunman Secondary School
Street 45, Singapore 529093

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If you are coming down feel free to drop us an email with your contact through our "Contact US" or just come down and find anyone of us in Orange Polo Tee if you want to support or be our volunteer. See you there.

Walkabout@Tampines

2011-04-26T08:47:00.000+08:00

We will be going to Block 284 Tampines Street 23 for our block visits tonight at 7:30p.m.

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Response to Minister Mah's twisted logic

2011-04-22T13:55:00.003+08:00

I have made the following rebuttals to Minister Mah Bow Tan's assertions:

1) Asset Enhancement Scheme

As an undergraduate in early 1990s, I was pretty upset when the Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong announced his plan for "Asset Enhancement Scheme". It would mean that my generation as well as future generations will have to pay MORE for HDB flats in future. Indeed, I have to pay 10 times more than my parents for a similar 4 room HDB flat. There is a COST of this Asset Enhancement Scheme to next and future generations.

Every Singaporean can only own ONE HDB flat as their HOME. HDB flat is a HOME, NOT an investment tool.

Furthermore, can the value of HDB value keep going up forever when it has only a 99 year lease? Obviously not! When our HDB flat is 50 year old or more, banks will be very reluctant to provide loans for potential buyers. It would mean that the demand for our old flats will drop drastically and the value will definitely drop.

To ask Singaporeans to depend on their HDB flats for retirement financing because we have this Asset Enhancement Scheme is totally flawed.

2) Lower Land Cost is Raiding Reserves

The PAP government has "raided" our forefathers by using Land Acquisition Act to acquire their land while paying peanuts in compensation! While our forefathers made sacrifices for the sake of our Nation's development needs, it is the social obligation of the PAP government to take care of our people by providing cheap public housing. At the very least, they should provide such cheap public housing for their FIRST matrimonial home.

Even with lower land price, the government of the day will still GAIN from such land sales due to the fact that they have acquired such land at dirt cheap prices.

We have accumulated more than $300Billion reserves basically due to the hefty profits gained via land sales. We could afford to slow down the growth of our reserves by making more concessions to our young Singaporeans.

3) Will we crash the market?

Resale market and first hand new HDB flat market are totally different market segments.

Resale market is a free market with many buyers and sellers. The demand in this market segment consists of Permanent Residents, Upgraders as well as some First time buyers.

For the first hand new HDB flat market, HDB is the MONOPOLY of supply with many Singaporean buyers. But the demand of this first hand HDB market consists only FIRST time buyers.

Thus, only Singaporeans who are first time buyers of these NEW HDB flats will benefit from this Cost-Plus scheme which NSP is advocating. Even if those first hand buyers in the resale market start to consider buying New HDB flats directly from HDB, there is no risk of total collapse of the resale market at all! This is basically because PRs and upgraders would not benefit from this scheme at all. PRs cannot buy direct from HDB and upgraders cannot benefit from this scheme. There is no incentive for them to switch to buy new HDB flat.

If the PAP government is sincere and serious about solving the low fertility rate problem, it should fulfill its social obligation by giving our young Singaporeans a big Ang Pao in terms of cheap HDB flats. This will allow them to have a head start in owning their first home when they get married.

Regards,

Goh Meng Seng

Nomination Day is coming, Volunteer Needed for this Election

2011-04-22T00:43:00.001+08:00

Fellow Singaporeans of Tampines GRC,

Nomination Date is 27 April 2011
Time: 11am to 12noon.
Venue: Dunman Secondary School
Street 45, Singapore 529093

If you are coming down feel free to drop us an email with your contact through our "Contact US" or just come down with your NRIC and find anyone of us in Orange Polo Tee. See you there.

Voting is Secret

2011-04-21T10:01:00.001+08:00

Hi all,

Below extracted from WP website (Thank you very much, in the name of Opposition unity!)
(http://wp.sg/wpge/your-vote-is-secret-3/?awesm=fbshare.me_AbDgn&utm_content=fbshare-js-large&utm_medium=fbshare.me-facebook-post&utm_source=facebook.com)

Voting and Ballot Secrecy

Have you heard people say that your vote is not secret? The short answer is that individual votes cannot be traced, unless an order of court is obtained under very specific circumstances.

Below are some frequently asked questions about the voting process.

Q: Why does the election official call out my name and voter number at the polling station before giving me the ballot paper? I find it unsettling.

A: This is required under the Parliament Elections Act. Calling out you name and number enables the representatives of political parties at the polling station to verify and cross out your name on their registers. This is a transparent process to help both the ruling and opposition parties in 2 ways – to check against double-voting by any voter, and to tally the total number of votes and the number of ballot papers issued out at the close of voting.

Q: Why must the ballot papers have serial numbers?

A: This is a good way to guard against election fraud such as bringing counterfeit ballot papers into the polling station, vote impersonation or basing ballot papers which have been marked by others. We are not the only country in the world to have ballot papers numbered.

Q: After I have cast my vote, what happens to it?

A: After the close of polls at 8 pm, the votes are sealed and moved to the counting centres where they will be counted by civil servants from different departments in the presence of the candidates and agents from both ruling party and opposition. Once counted, the votes, together with all the relevant records, the stubs of the ballot papers as well as unused ballot papers are sealed and transferred to the vault at the Supreme Court where they are kept for at least 6 months. The votes cannot be retrieved unless a court order is obtained on the ground of election fraud.
According to the Elections Department website, no court order has been issued to retrieve votes since Singapore conducted elections in 1948.
At the end of 6 months, the sealed votes and records will be transferred to an incineration plant for destruction. The whole procedure is witnessed by candidates/agents from all parties. The Workers’ Party has been present and has found the seals on the votes and records intact. The Workers’ Party is satisfied about voting secrecy.

Q: After the election, politicians started saying that certain communities / blocks supported the ruling party or the opposition party. This shows that the votes are not secret.

A: Nobody knows how each individual voted. Each polling station serves about 10-20 blocks of flats and/or a few landed housing estates. Since the counting of votes is done by polling stations, it is possible to know the overall results of each polling station, which consists of a few thousand votes. The voting results, sorted by polling stations, are accessible to all political parties contesting in that constituency. It is possible to say a particular zone of residents supported a political party by x%, but it is not possible to narrow down the level of support to a particular block or an individual. The comments of politicians may be based on ground feel and feedback.

Q: How else can you reassure me that my vote is secret?

A: The Workers’ Party has participated in every General Election since the independence of Singapore. Based on our experience, we are certain that the vote is secret.
For anyone who is still in doubt, do bear in mind that tampering with the electoral process is illegal and tantamount to breaking the law. Doing so is not in the interest of the government as its power and legitimacy will be in question and its reputation tarnished locally and internationally. The government actually has more to lose if it fails to ensure that the vote is secret.
P.S. There will be no NRIC tag to your name in the register and the serial numbers are not unique as before. So there are serial numbesr that repeats itself all over other polling station. (Example Tampines have 46 polling station and there will be 46 of the same serial number.)

Walkabout @ Tampines Blk 801 and Interchange Last nite

2011-03-31T11:59:00.002+08:00

Tampines Team was there meeting and interacting with the residents. It is great to see residents are quite welcoming and willing to give us feedback on some issues they are facing in Tampines. Parking space and overcrowded interchange. We will try to come out with a survey form soon and hope people can participant in it.

P.S Great to see volunteers coming from the north side to help us out. Thank you very much once again :)

Regards
National Solidarity Party@Tampines
YOUR Voice, YOUR Choice.

Outreach @ Tampines at Blk138 & 823

2011-03-27T18:56:00.000+08:00

Once again we are doing out outreach at Tampines, We introduced our potential 4 candidates for Tampines GRC for the residents of Singapore for the first time. We meet a group of residents from Tampines who last time lived in the same Kampung and now lived together in Tampines. We took a picture of the "Coffee Friends' Club" Chairman.

We went around Tampines to interact with the residents and explain some of the issues that we going to bring up for this coming election. At the same time understanding their woes

We took a photo with a tampines resident who is very supportive of our presence in Tampines.

The visit around Tampines was interesting and highly motivated. As there are a lot of people who supported our presence. Hope that we could win and contribute more for the residents of Tampines and Singapore

National Solidarity Party
Your VOICE, Your CHOICE

Whereabout @ Tampines

2011-03-24T19:54:00.000+08:00

Once again we are doing our outreach at Tampines, we will be going to the few major markets in Tampines itself. Going around coffeeshops and markets to raise fund for our campaigning for this coming election and at the same time create awareness among the community. We will be there on 27/03/2011 (Sunday) from 9am onwards. Do come and support us :)

Outreach @ Tampines Blk 201

2011-03-19T12:08:00.006+08:00

Today (19/03/2011), we did our outreach at Tampines Blk 201, which is near a market and Tampines East Community Centre. Going around coffeeshops and markets to raise fund for our campaigning for this coming election and at the same time create awareness among the community.

The gentleman in the photo is a resident of Tampines. He given us a lot of valuable feedback for issues that we Singaporeans are looking out for. They are like HDB, healthcare and the transport system. There are also other residents of Tampines very concern about the healthcare cost in Singapore. I would say we are the Alternate voice for the people, we promise to pressure the government for the people.

Regards,

National Solidarity Party@Tampines

Food for thought: Beyond Politics of Labels

2011-03-18T10:38:00.002+08:00

First posted on http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.com on 17/11/2007

Recent happenings in the political arena is rather interesting.

First, it was "Wayang Party" posters pasted around the venue of WP 50th Anniversary Dinner. The PM Lee's comment of "AWOL" which is directed not only on Workers' Party but also me. Then the ultimate one is, in th name of "rejuvenate" Hougang, they are going to tear down 9 blocks of flats which is a stronghold of support for WP's MP Mr. Low Thia Khiang. Prior to this, due to the "bad connotation" of "compulsory annuity", they just change the label to "longevity insurance" to make it sound "nicer and acceptable"!

All these labels are of course, politically motivated. The label "Wayang Party" first appeared in internet forums and subsequently used by PAP Dr. Ng Eng Hen during one of his GE 2006 rally speech. And now, it is used in an organized smearing campaign about WP. No matter who is the master mind behind this smearing campaign, it just demonstrates that they are either envious of WP's success and progress or that there is certain anxiety behind the rising of WP in the political field.

This anxiety of WP's rise is also felt in the recent PAP members meeting whereby PAP's grassroot members have fired off various questions on the WP's close fight in Aljunied GRC in GE 2006. If WP is such a "Wayang Party" as PAP minister has once pronounced, why would PAP grassroot members show such anxiety? I think the heat is great on the PAP side, so much so that PM Lee has to use another label "AWOL TEAM" to describe WP's Aljunied Team in GE 2006 in order to defuse the anxiety of his party comrades in this ward.

When reporter Peh called me with regard to PM Lee's latest label, I could only laugh at it. AWOL means "Absent Without Official Leave". It means that you must be "Officially" elected as MP first before you could talk about "Official Leave". Thus, if anyone who is elected as MP but does not attend parliament sittings or just sleeping during parliament sittings, or he or she does not perform the duty of MP by scrutinizing the policies brought up by the government, or he or she does not conduct regular meet-the-people sessions, or he or she does not attend all those necessary meetings which are related to the running of the town councils, then we could conclude that this person has gone "AWOL": meaning that he or she is not performing the duties expected as a MP. Are the WP candidates (including me) in Aljunied GRC elected as MP but did not perform our duties as expected of us? Obviously not.

From another angle, the perspective behind this comment is rather narrow. Maybe it is due to the fact that this comment is a direct response to "localized" politics in Aljunied GRC, that is why the context is much narrower. On a broader perspective, I think many of us in non-PAP politics have only one aim, that is to push for political democratic development for Singapore. As far as I am concerned, I am still working towards my political beliefs. Did I "AWOL" or give up on my political beliefs? I have to disappoint many people to say that I have NOT given up the fight yet! ;)

The anxiety of PAP grassroot members in Aljunied GRC was heightened after Mr. Low Thia Khiang has spoken about winning one GRC in the next election. They must have sensed the possibility of Mr. Low walking out of the Hougang in the bid to fulfill that promise of winning that one GRC. It is only natural.

But the later development really intrigues me. HDB has just announced the plan of demolishing 9 blocks of flats along with the market and industrial buildings which are located in Hougang ward. This time, they use the label "rejuvenate". But it was not so long ago, during the GE 2006 hustling that PAP has come up with upgrading plans for the estates, especially the market, as an "election carrot" (alas, that's pork barrel politics!). The same label "rejuvenate" was used too. But this time, the idea of "rejuvenating" the place is to tear down everything? Is this a PAP's "retaliation" for losing more votes in Hougang? A "retaliation" for the rejection of PAP's offer of upgrading for the market? Since you do not want upgrading, I will tear it down kind of mentality? Or is this a direct response to Mr. Low's vow of winning at least one GRC in the next elections?

There are two dimensions of the impacts of such moves by PAP government. Politically, it is not the first time that PAP has tried to cut off the support level of opposition parties in "danger zones" by administrative means . The market place at Hougang is a very important battleground for both PAP and WP as it is the focal point of everyday lives of those living in the town. Both PAP as well as WP members have been very active at the market place during as well as off election period. Since PAP has not been able to win the battle on the front, it would be tactically advantage to remove the battle front altogether. Needless to say, the nine blocks of flats are the stronghold of WP.

But why is PAP doing this? The reason is obvious. They do not want Mr. Low to walk out of Hougang to contest in a GRC by reducing the potential support, thus the buffer of winning percentage for WP in Hougang. They hope that by making the battleground in Hougang more tight, WP will think twice about taking the risk of letting Mr. Low to lead a team in other GRC while leaving this Hougang ward to another candidate. Will their wish come true? We will wait and see. ;)

On the other dimension, such moves will affect many people. First, the livelihood of those who depend on the market will be adversely affected. Secondly, those living in the town as well as those across the street at Aljunied GRC will be affected too. One of my friend called me up the other day to lament about this latest announcement. He lives in Aljunied GRC just across the street opposite the Hougang ward. The demolition of the market will grossly affect his family.

From the social perspective, many elderly folks who are used to the living in the neighbourhood will be greatly affected. Elderly folks who live in that neighbourhood are normally lonely folks who depends on the dynamism of the social psychological support of the neighbourhood to keep their lives active. Friends made in the neighbourhood are part of their social psychological support for their daily lives. To ask them to shift and to adapt to new environment will create emotional problems for these elderly folks. Nothing, in terms of infrastructure, could better the "kampong spirit" built up in Hougang now. Has HDB taken this important factor into considerations before they make their decisions? It just shows that HDB lacks the empathy to understand the social needs of these elderly people.

I hope that the self-proclaimed "First World Government" would see beyond the politics of labels and put more substance of the heart in their policy making process. No matter what is the motivation of all these labeling, the ultimate aim of a government is to make policies that take good care of the people. Politicking with labels without taking the people's needs (social, culture and economic needs) into serious consideration is definitely not something that a "First World Government" government would do.

Goh Meng Seng

Whereabout @ Tampines East Blk 201

2011-03-16T15:11:00.003+08:00

Once again we are doing our outreach at Tampines Blk 201 which is near a market and Tampines East Community Centre. Going around coffeeshops and markets to raise fund for our campaigning for this coming election and at the same time create awareness among the community. We will be there on 19/03/2011 (Saturday) from 9am onwards. Do come and support us :)

Outreach @ Tampines West Blk 821 to 827

2011-03-12T14:04:00.008+08:00

Once again we are doing our outreach at Tampines Blk 821 to 827 which is near the market and Tampines West Community Centre. Going around coffeeshops and markets to raise fund for our campaigning for this coming election and at the same time create awareness among the community. We were there from 10am to 1pm. Thank you for those who have supported us from all over Singapore :)

P.S. We have been selling our newsletter and doing our walkabout every Saturday. Those we never meet us do take note of our space here :) Thank you

National Solidarity Party
Your VOICE, Your CHOICE

Outreach @ Tampines West Blk 821 to 827

2011-01-08T18:35:00.008+08:00

This outreach is done to distribute our latest publication to the public. First to allow residents in Tampines be more aware on what is going and at the same time collect feedbacks on their opinion on the ground. The outreach seems encouraging, as many residents seek to talk with our Secretary-General, Mr Goh Meng Seng on his opinion on HDB policies. It seems that his write-up over the years have provided awareness among the residents.

National Solidarity Party
Your VOICE, Your CHOICE

Outreach @ Tampines Changkat Blk 139

2010-12-12T22:53:00.002+08:00

This outreach at Tampines Blk 137 market place is done right after Straits Time constituency report on Tampines GRC. The warm reception of NSP team by the residents there, is very encouraging.

Our President, Mr Sebastian Teo (2nd in orange from the left) Introducing the candidates who will be contesting in Tampines GRC

Contrary to ST's report which says that the Malay voters are still supportive of PAP, Malay residents at each and every table in the Muslim Coffeeshop have shown their support by buying our publication North Star.

That makes us wonder, about the article about the was published on 10 Dec 2010 in the Strait Times on the write up on "Will Mah loses votes over rising flat price". Why is there such a big contrast?

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