[GE2025] SDP Discussion Thread

[fortunecat]

CSJ too busy with his restaurants the past few years, SDP 群龙无首

 

[CCCustom]

Desmond Lim and Benjamin Pwee also left CST's party due to disagreements too.

Desmond was being groomed as CST’s next protege … CST rejected RP’s inclusion into the alliance, but Desmond insisted to let RP join, so CST withdrew SPP from the alliance and cut ties with Desmond.

He didn’t leave … CST left … but end up Desmond had been labelled 叛徒 ever since.

Like that tio labelled 叛徒, you say CSJ leh?

Ling How Doong and Cheo Chai Chen got their seats in 1991 because people believed in CST, not them … end up they 过河拆桥 support CSJ instead of the person their seats depended on … the very next election both lost their seats you say leh?

And Chao Botak left because not happy that he was not deployed to stand in Potong Pasir and instead the wife got posted, because the wife was the only person he could trust with Potong Pasir.

 

[dezzo69]

WP have really raised their professional image and PSP have overtaken SDP in the public conciousness.

SDP don't seem to have much renewal or public engagement or media pressence. Till this day, they are still the CSJ kpkb party.

Dunno what Paul Tambyah still hanging around with them.

SDP regressed because CSJ has to run a F&B business to support his family.

 

[Yvaine]

 

[mike-q]

We still remember how CSJ screwed Mr Chiam over.

CSJ can forget about being voted in ever. Dr Paul got chance. The only candidate worth voting in from SDP.

dont be fooled, the entire SDP CEC voted chiam out, even SDP MP Ling How Doong and Cheo Chai Chen did not support Chiam

 

[GreatPumpkin]

SDP regressed because CSJ has to run a F&B business to support his family.

That's the thing. They haven't moved beyond the one man party stage

 

[Insatiable_creat]

Need him inside to pressure the jlb miws... I might actually watch the parliament if he gets in.

 

[sPacEmAn_sPiFf]

WP has developed so much over the years, whereas SDP is still just CSJ and Paul Tambyah.. Perhaps they need their first breakthrough..

 

[icebleue]

Because CSJ is unelectable and thus causing his party to regress as a whole

This GE also probably his last chance

Last chance is cos tambyah has a chance.
If tambyah can’t get in, this is probably his last election.
He’s already 60.

 

[Damienic]

That’s because WP is functioning more as a party, leveraging each other’s strengths and doing more in social media marketing to bring up the party’s strengths and branding. Whereas SDP is still very much driven by individual talents and while CSJ and Paul are great talents themselves, I feel they lack strategic foresight and direction to build up the party’s overall branding and image.

 

[Soracak]

Problem for SDP is that they are perceived as much more left than the other parties , which generally are centrist parties. SDP is our liberals, and since the takedown of the woke movement, the left is no longer in fashion.

Not sure if u r keeping up. The pap has steered harder left than anybody else. Massive social welfare in the form of vouchers, usave and tons of other social credits which most of u 20k earners dun qualify. The pap has gone woke and dei just like any other party with ministers openly supporting feminist causes and repealing 377. Question is not how much more left can pap go, but how many voters are prepared to stick with pap no matter what they do.

 

[MrAwesomeX]

WP have really raised their professional image and PSP have overtaken SDP in the public conciousness.

SDP don't seem to have much renewal or public engagement or media pressence. Till this day, they are still the CSJ kpkb party.

Dunno what Paul Tambyah still hanging around with them.

No introduce enough pretty chiobu candidates?

 

[krikering]

WP has developed so much over the years, whereas SDP is still just CSJ and Paul Tambyah.. Perhaps they need their first breakthrough..

If SDP really manage to get a MP slot, i hope it will be Paul Tambyah.

Our healthcare system really needs a reform, costs are soaring through the roof but waiting time/hospital beds situation is getting worser.

Nurses, etc. are overworked and underpaid.

The hospital's C-Suites, corporate shareholders and insurance companies, etc. meanwhile are profiting in this current set of circumstances at everyone else's expenses.

 

[MrAwesomeX]

Not sure if u r keeping up. The pap has steered harder left than anybody else. Massive social welfare in the form of vouchers, usave and tons of other social credits which most of u 20k earners dun qualify. The pap has gone woke and dei just like any other party with ministers openly supporting feminist causes and repealing 377. Question is not how much more left can pap go, but how many voters are prepared to stick with pap no matter what they do.

Under decades of woke west and Biden influence is inevitable one .
I feel mods here are also mostly woke influenced .

Even some unknown minister like Edwin tong begin tok cock Abt dei diversity in sinkeeland. Quite disgusting.

 

[AlmightyOnes]

WP have really raised their professional image and PSP have overtaken SDP in the public conciousness.

SDP don't seem to have much renewal or public engagement or media pressence. Till this day, they are still the CSJ kpkb party.

Dunno what Paul Tambyah still hanging around with them.

In a self pawn thread

 

[krikering]

dont be fooled, the entire SDP CEC voted chiam out, even SDP MP Ling How Doong and Cheo Chai Chen did not support Chiam

Both are at fault equally, or should we say that none are at fault just that they hold different stances and viewpoints.

Personally felt that CST was a MP that was simply contented to hold onto his PP seat all along, by the time he get to the stage where he felt it was necessary for him to contest a GRC was already too late.

Remembered back then in 2007, SPP and WP had a dinner where they conversed. It was then, he mentioned about the need to take a GRC.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2007/11/04/toc-report-wp-50th-anniversary-dinner/

Perhaps he sensed that LTK himself had plans to lead a team to take on a GRC, thus he felt imboldened to do so in 2011 but he did not carefully thought it out.

The fact, he handed over the PP seat to his wife whom eventually did not perform in Parliament and left no strong impression contributed to SPP's current state.




CSJ on the other hand, was like JBJ. He wanted to did what LTK did, which was to build up their party brand into 1 which could potentially challenge PAP in the future at a national level but he was too impatient and reckless back then.

Can tell that he has mellowed out a bit, power sharing with Paul Tambyah and brining in other qualified candidates has helped him to realise that it was never an one-man show.

Think that Vince Wijeysingha's departure in 2013 over CSJ's decision to contest in the Punggol-East by-election has also struck a nerve too.

 

[radioshack]

SINGAPORE - Selling new HDB flats for $90,000 to $270,000, making maternal and paediatric care mostly free, reducing GST to 7 per cent, and removing the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE).

These are some proposals put forth by the Singapore Democratic Party on April 20 as it unveiled its manifesto for the upcoming polls on May 3.

SDP argues this will make homes cheaper because the cost of an HDB flat will only include the cost of construction and administration.

It said HDB flats with 99-year leases will be built on land specially zoned for public housing and not contain a land cost component. This is unlike the current HDB practice of including the cost of land in public housing.

SDP said it believes the NOM scheme can offer 2-room flats at around $90,000; 3-room at $120,000; 4-room units at $200,000; and 5-room apartments at $270,000.

It added that studio apartments with 30-year leases can be sold for around $40,000.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ts-to-sell-for-up-to-270000-do-away-with-psle

 

[BigCannon Fairy]

Not sure if u r keeping up. The pap has steered harder left than anybody else. Massive social welfare in the form of vouchers, usave and tons of other social credits which most of u 20k earners dun qualify. The pap has gone woke and dei just like any other party with ministers openly supporting feminist causes and repealing 377. Question is not how much more left can pap go, but how many voters are prepared to stick with pap no matter what they do.

I just get the feeling that people had to work in the old days because there was no free handouts. But these days the handouts are really quite a fair bit. There are some safeguards, like not owning more than one property and staying in hdb etc, but people surely have a way to skirt round that as well. If it goes further then you end up with UK and their Council housing, with a group of people who realise that it’s more financially viable to get handouts than to work.

 

[tExtra]

Why $270,000, not $200,000 or $5?

 

[drkcynic]

Anyone who owns a HDB or private property will denounce him.

The rest are just sour grapes who missed the boat but claims they are thinking for "the younger gen who cannot afford a house".