PAP calling WP arrogance.. This is news to me!
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/goh-can-wp-arrogance-replace-my-team
Goh: Can WP arrogance replace my team?
Let them try.
Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, 74, threw down the gauntlet yesterday when he was asked about facing the Workers' Party (WP) in the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC).
These were among the fighting words at the press conference to announce the GRC's candidates.
Mr Goh said WP had a "certain arrogance about them", and spoke about how they entered the race for the GRC.
"They came and the NSP (National Solidarity Party), out you go.
"Will that same arrogance be able to replace me and my team in Marine Parade? Let them try."
He also pointedly referred to the accounting lapses in the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) run by the WP.
"I tell Marine Parade residents, 'Look at the way they run their town council's finances and look at the way we run ours.'
"You decide - who do you want to manage your town council?"
Mr Goh was just a month ago considering stepping down from politics after 40 years at Marine Parade.
He confirmed his standing "shoulder-to-shoulder" with fellow Marine Parade candidates only on Aug 14.
Yesterday, he levelled some of the strongest words at the opposition so far when he said that they were like nomads who "come and go".
"Nomads do not have an interest in people's welfare - they are looking for plunder," he said.
Marine Parade has come under some scrutiny because in the 2011 elections PAP won with 56.6 per cent, coming up against a relatively unknown and untested NSP team.
This time around, they also have absorbed Joo Chiat.
The division was an SMC in 2011 and PAP won with one of the smallest margins then - Mr Charles Chong pipping WP's Yee Jenn Jong by just 388 votes.
Acknowledging the tight race, Mr Goh said that the Government did not pay sufficient attention and address the emotions of the Joo Chiat residents who live in landed properties.
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/goh-can-wp-arrogance-replace-my-team
Goh: Can WP arrogance replace my team?
Let them try.
Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, 74, threw down the gauntlet yesterday when he was asked about facing the Workers' Party (WP) in the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC).
These were among the fighting words at the press conference to announce the GRC's candidates.
Mr Goh said WP had a "certain arrogance about them", and spoke about how they entered the race for the GRC.
"They came and the NSP (National Solidarity Party), out you go.
"Will that same arrogance be able to replace me and my team in Marine Parade? Let them try."
He also pointedly referred to the accounting lapses in the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) run by the WP.
"I tell Marine Parade residents, 'Look at the way they run their town council's finances and look at the way we run ours.'
"You decide - who do you want to manage your town council?"
Mr Goh was just a month ago considering stepping down from politics after 40 years at Marine Parade.
He confirmed his standing "shoulder-to-shoulder" with fellow Marine Parade candidates only on Aug 14.
Yesterday, he levelled some of the strongest words at the opposition so far when he said that they were like nomads who "come and go".
"Nomads do not have an interest in people's welfare - they are looking for plunder," he said.
Marine Parade has come under some scrutiny because in the 2011 elections PAP won with 56.6 per cent, coming up against a relatively unknown and untested NSP team.
This time around, they also have absorbed Joo Chiat.
The division was an SMC in 2011 and PAP won with one of the smallest margins then - Mr Charles Chong pipping WP's Yee Jenn Jong by just 388 votes.
Acknowledging the tight race, Mr Goh said that the Government did not pay sufficient attention and address the emotions of the Joo Chiat residents who live in landed properties.
