Calvin Cheng - Battles within Workers' Party

[messidona]

Whos that?

leong mun wai. throw file auntie scared of him but not scared of pritam

 

[xdivider]

ever notice a trend
1) LW ask WP to choose someone beside the 3 old folks
2) 1xx hold public poll for people to choose new guys to be loto, keep emphasising loto is important
3) donkey claims that internal fighting

whites are trying really hard, own house a mess go stir other pple house.........

 

[Ayuready?]

IB dogs working hard to earn their $1

 

[quirkyhill]

More reliable than “left for medical reasons” I totally don’t think Daniel Goh left for some medical condition…

He did mention the health issues but he was later expelled, you can google
No loss for him as he’s a good professor and better off teaching the next gen (taught me back in nus)

 

[Vinda99]

Deep cover operative within PAP reports that there are 87+9 party jiakliaobee in parliament right now

Operative is in 100% intelligence gathering mode, all other external sensors shut down

Donkey wan to be Critical HeeHaw?

 

[xdivider]

this feels like using public pressure to make WP appoint a new LOTO from the younger group. from the poll it seem like they are arrowing HTR.......

DO NOT give anymore legitimacy to this govt appointed opp leader nonsense any more.........

 

[coldish]

Nowadays Sunday's threads are PAP's stories.

I also can say PAP are dividing their mangoes to eat.

 

[buttbERry]

His sauce from where?

 

[CCCustom]

BATTLE WITHIN WORKERS’ PARTY

This is from a few sources within WP.

The WP now is not the WP of Low Thia Kiang.

Low’s WP was a very Chinese WP. Teochew base , many his diehard followers in Hougang.

This old guard has been slowly pushed aside by a new group of English-educated cadres. Recent recruitment has also bolstered this.

Nobody likes being pushed aside and a few civil wars have already been waged. First when Chen Show Mao launched a leadership bid against Low Thia Kiang in 2016. The result was not a foregone conclusion, with Mr Low defeating Mr Chen 61-45. But in that first battle the old guard who was against the succession direction of WP lost.

Teochew speaking Daniel Goh was passed over in favour of Pritam Singh , even though he was the favourite of the Chinese-speaking cadres. Eventually, Goh was expelled from the WP for publicly criticising the leadership over the Raeesah Khan affair.

This core group of old-guard WP cadres remain deeply unhappy.

The new WP leaders are all English-educated and ‘Westernised’ , many not fluent in Mandarin, not to say Teochew. Old guards feel that the WP has lost its roots and its soul in courting votes.

In 2020, Pritam Singh was forced to apologise for not sending a representative to the Chinese debate. This came after deep anger from the Chinese cadres.

The source says that the same/allied group of cadres are the ones who pushed for the special meeting to force a vote for Pritam Singh’s resignation.

Party sources had confirmed to The Straits Times that more than 20 cadres signed and submitted a letter calling for a special conference to be held in February. There are only about a 100 cadre members.

The WP has convened a panel to investigate the issue of whether Mr Singh has contravened the WP codes, but sources say this panel are mostly allies of Pritam Singh and Sylvia Lim.

What is more certain is that the Parliamentary Workers’ Party ( the members of Parliament) are solidly behind Mr. Singh. (Although questions have been asked why Peking University graduate NCMP Eileen Chong was absent during the debate on the LO. )

The LO’s removal has given the disgruntled cadres more ammunition, especially after the PM has offered the LO position to any other MP not implicated in the Raeesah affair. (Which is the same allied group)

They are arguing that the party is bigger than one man, the LO position is important , but more likely it’s an attempt for this faction to strike back at the “Ang Mo Pai” WP faction.

However , given the composition of the investigation panel, and the WP CEC, and the recruitment of more and more English-speaking type cadres , the WP Old Guard is likely to lose again. Even if they are pressuring their old comrade Mr Low to swing to their side, it’s more likely he stands by his protege Pritam Singh.

The plot thickens.

I don’t doubt that there is some truth in this. But this is more like something that came from someone like Leon’s former chauffeur - he was not lying but his version of the truth is based on his own point of view … y’know, that whole “He is like a son to me” $#!t when people clearly only viewed him as an employee and dispensable.

To say this leak should be a Teochew cadre from the Hougang faction feels like a Captain Obvious thing, but … yeah

 

[EdenHazard]

I also notice she was missing.

Maybe she supports pritam's sacking as LOTO

 

[wongminmin]

actually what he said is quite true......

the foundation of opp cause they are more on the ground, closest with the residents.
When they decide to abandon rep on ch8 and become co-driver. what make them diff from those elites?


Hopefully there is new LTK in the new gen...... LTK really will fight for his residents....."not for sake of opposing"

 

[Teufelhunden]

Nonsense logic. Success for a party is measured by Parliament seats won, nothing more.

 

[Teufelhunden]

actually what he said is quite true......

the foundation of opp cause they are more on the ground, closest with the residents.
When they decide to abandon rep on ch8 and become co-driver. what make them diff from those elites?


Hopefully there is new LTK in the new gen...... LTK really will fight for his residents....."not for sake of opposing"

The challenge is to balance your roots with broadening national appeal across other demographics.

Still waiting for WP to contest BT.

 

[Can Or Not]

He did mention the health issues but he was later expelled, you can google
No loss for him as he’s a good professor and better off teaching the next gen (taught me back in nus)

Health issues are always a cover for reasons don’t want to mention… got health issues but still can teach…?

he left but crook face LP still around. You know the rot starts from the top

 

[SimpleToo]

It never surprising that there are internal politics within a party… i still remember the cst and csj saga…

i also heard of there are internal power struggles within the pap as well…

 

[sickoflife]

Machiam PAP no factions. Please lah, the amount of personal benefits is so huge that everyone wants a piece of the pie

 

[kreja]

leong mun wai. throw file auntie scared of him but not scared of pritam

Another useless guy. He didnt improve my life

 

[yildun]

The "old guards" should just take a step back and 享受儿孙福. LTK already knew these old guards cmi and if he did not recruit the english speaking members, WP will just die with him like CST.

If what CC said is true, then these old guards are really old fogeys and delulu and want to hang on to power. There are still there because LTK keep them and provided they say out of trouble. If they stir trouble then will really make WP regress and soon WP will become a kacang puteh opposition like GMS's party.

 

[CCCustom]

The challenge is to balance your roots with broadening national appeal across other demographics.

The "old guards" should just take a step back and 享受儿孙福. LTK already knew these old guards cmi and if he did not recruit the english speaking members, WP will just die with him like CST.

If what CC said is true, then these old guards are really old fogeys and delulu and want to hang on to power. There are still there because LTK keep them and provided they say out of trouble. If they stir trouble then will really make WP regress and soon WP will become a kacang puteh opposition like GMS's party.

The leak (I believe) belongs to the faction that made Hougang the WP stronghold and this faction is why it remains the stronghold. WP is of course bigger than Hougang, but you can’t dismiss this faction as noise either.

The smart move now would be - apart from rejecting Lawrence’s “offer” to nominate a new LOTO from The 7 (unless it is made an institutional post) - would be for WP to put back the Assistant Sec-Gen post and have it taken up by someone this faction either accepts, or is at least neutral to.

 

[Brionic]

Every party / company sure got clique one

even edmwer, all the bbfa one clique