Wednesday, July 10, 2013

A Politician's Waterloo

"Politics is a contest for power but the key principle when you have power is, don't take advantage of people under your charge, and always be honest and upfront with them." The problem with this sentence is that the speaker misses his own message.

For a guy who talks so much about power, he should recognise the demise of his own. Thanks to the careless choice of words in his Facebook post about the haze that triggered the megaphone politics, heavy weight Ng Eng Hen had to be roped in to handle the sensitive issue. His own role was diminished to one of messenger boy, carrying a big white envelope to soothe ruffled feathers.

As for being upfront and honest, we still don't know what went into the $79.8 million "Other Costs" accounting entry of the bloated $387 million YOG budget. That's enough money for a couple of houses at Sentosa Cove. And while he gave away free condoms for the foreign athletes, we had to pay $2.25 for a N95 mask.

Who can forget the gutter politics during the watershed election of 2011?  Thankfully, Vincent Wijeysingha's open declaration of his sexuality has put spade to Balakrishnan's shameful innuendos.

While he's busy wallowing in dirt, another has died of dengue fever, the fourth Singaporean victim, a Chinese male who lived in the Tanglin Halt area. Five dengue related deaths on our shores, if you count the Indonesian. Clearly, his priority is misplaced.

There's only one way to put him out of his misery. Have him repeat his charges outside of parliament house, where he's protected by parliamentary privilege. Calling people liars, when he himself is so generous with half truths, is tantamount to libel and defamation. And he had to pick a fight with an ex-cop and practising lawyer. That's gotta be real dumb.

23 comments:

  1. I was glad when the smokeout from our Indon friends cleared, till yesterday. PSI from Hill St hit atmospheric levels.

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  2. Dear Auntie Vivien, please stop bitching about INTEGRITY when you breathe life into the opposite, which is HIPOCRISY.

    I did not write this, I was not even here when this was written.

    "Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool".

    Heed the advice given by your Master, "REPENT".

    fish 'n' chips

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  3. Incompetents like Vivian is good for driving PAP to its demise faster. The PAP should continue to keep him and other incompetents like WKS and MBT.

    The presence of such idiots in their party only goes to show how far the quality of their leadership in the party has fallen.

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    1. True, but there is also a truism in life - a country full of idiots deserve idiotic politicians. Look no further than the USS of A. Yes we can! (drone you)

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  4. Another great short entertaining article from Tattler. You are great in summarizing what these goofs have done in the past while poking fun at the same time.

    BTW Vivian looks after holland bt timah- his area people are probably hardest for him to throw such smoke bombs around. He is trying really hard to get himself kicked out in 2016 isn't it?

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  5. another great post from Tatler

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  6. What does he want? A meal in a restaurant, food court or hawker centre? He can have his meals at the hawker centres after 2016, maybe help inspect their cleanliness too, since he is so keen on it.

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  7. While he made the "untruthful" allegations in Parliament, he never mentioned a word about the role of the PAP shit stirrer in the hawker association.

    So who is the untruthful arsehole here to begin with ?

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  8. Unfortunately, TV pictures shows lacklustre responses from
    WP. They lost political points which will swing votes against them.

    " I know you to be an honourable man..."

    scored high points.

    " I appeal to you, go back and set things right"

    scored high points.

    While the TV showed the WP responding with:

    " This is the first time I have heard this"

    scored 0 points.. even worse, scored minus 2

    Hougang has been in WP management for more than 2 terms.
    Do they not understand what "spring" and "quartely" cleaning is??
    What is different now at Bedok??

    Sadly, WP's star is yet to shine... the debate was their moment to score, yet they could not launch a vigorous counter attack.

    Simply, they were caught off guard.
    I hope this is not repeated in 2016.

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    1. " I know you to be an honourable man..."
      And you are the champion of gutter politics...

      " I appeal to you, go back and set things right"
      And you'll pay back the $387 million to the people?

      " This is the first time I have heard this, what other dirt have you conjured up?"

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  9. WP's silent was/is indeed golden.

    THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED TO USE PRECIOUS PARLIAMENTARY MEETING TIME FOR SUCH A SMALL AND MINOR ISSUE.

    Vivien has to have a sense of proportion.

    patriot

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    1. Not possible for this idiot to have a sense of proportion, not after overspending on the YOG by 200million and still has the gall to think it was money well spent. Hopefully the 60% who voted for PAP will ask themselves which bigger idiot allowed Vivian to do so, and still keep him as minister to solve the dengue and haze problems.

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  10. 1) Accusing people of lying by relying on internal notes. My internal notes say a certain minister is lying through his teeth.

    2) We pay millions to ministers to have such long drivels about cleaning hawker centres?

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  11. I don't vote for cleaners. I don't need 200k MPs to do cleaning and 3 million dollar ministers to inspect cleaning. Singapore politics is really lacking. Please return cleaning jobs back to hdb or nea.

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  12. First they throw the shit, never mind if they have to lie. Then they manipulate their own people to backup their own lies. The last time they did it, they use 'recalcitrant liar'. Now it is 'untruthful'.

    Can you see the trick now ?

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  13. Singapore politics is really degenerating into the sewers and hitting dirt bottom. No where else in the world does politicians haggle and waste so much time over such a minor issue of cleaning of hawker centres, even to the extent of debating it in Parliament.

    Change is needed, the earlier the better.

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    1. Even this issue on cleaning of hawkers centres will be regarded as too trivial a topic for inter lower secondary school debate. Now imagine how our 18 year olds in poly, uni, etc will respond to Vivian and his political masters when they are of voting age in 2016 ?

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  14. WP, pls hit back.

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  15. Vivian debated while Sumatra burnt, while Aedes spread like wildfire, when Orchard rd flooded, while old folks go hungry and spent millions on children's games.

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  16. A reminder of the dangers of nuclear energy for Singapore:

    Leader Of Fukushima Explosion Response Team Dies From Cancer
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-10/leader-fukushima-explosion-response-team-dies-cancer

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  17. He actually waived his Parliamentary privilege and challenge WP to sue him. It all runs in the Party,doesn't it. Just show his flawed character-spiteful and arrogant. And to think that WP has along been accomodating to the ruling Party. Glad WP did not take the bait. And today Low Thia Khiang's reponse was absolute first class from a politician.

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  18. I learnt tolerance from a party who practices intolerance towards LGBT and opposition members.

    I learnt kindness from a party who practices cruelty and asks if 3 meals a day is sufficient for the poor.

    I learnt accountability from a party who cannot account for its lavish spending on defence, gic , yog games and many more.

    I leant clean politics from a party who practices and perpetuates a bullying and dirty culture in our society where muzzling the citizens rights, and other despicable acts against opposition candidates are their norms of the day.

    Thank you, thank you.

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  19. To VIVIAN,
    Is it about clean politics or " cleaned" politics ? Who are you trying to fool here?
    If you have as much integrity as you like to portray, why not just come clean and tell us that your ministry simply do not have the correct haze data to provide us to begin with. If you worry about your hourly data is inaccurate, then what does a 3 hr or 24 hour psi data going to help !!? And why choose of all time, when we are in the middle of a crisis to switch to 24 hr reading ?! Next time when psi 400 hits the island again, I would like to see you go jogging with your n95 masks on to prove that a stop work order and our lives should carry on normal. What a piece of shit this minister is.

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