Netizens who bothered to sit through the entire programme noted that it ended without any scrolling credits. Whoever produced it, directed it, scripted it, provided the lighting or sound, mysteriously decided to be anonymous. No sign of the MediaCorp or CNA logo either.
Without a doubt, the topic of discussion was about foreign worker intake. Singaporeans first woke up to the problem when a dormitory sprung up overnight at Serangoon Gardens. The residents were castigated for being selfish and ungrateful wretches, and we were told the aliens in our midst were transition workers, going home when the housing blocks have been constructed. Then commuters started to notice more strange faces on the trains, and even Anton Casey bitched about the olfactory pollution. The last straw was when middle management jobs were lost to the new comers - that many of these came with fake degrees was a discovery yet to be unveiled. The excuse used for damage control? It's a competitive world out there, and the spurs that need to be dug into behinds apply to the job market too. Too bad if the Singapore core is diluted with rogue elements, and the fragile identity ethos is being torn apart with new divisive entrants. Yang Yin was an officially credited member of the Integration and Naturalisation Champion (INC) committee in Intan Mokhtar's ward.
When Prof Chan presented him with a yes-no question ("Now with the curb on immigration flow, Prime Minister, have you won more support from people, compared to the angst of the PMETs and SMEs?), Lee went into classic evasive mode, a rehash of the "please bear with us, we are trying our best on your behalf" verbiage last heard at Boat Quay during GE 2011:
"And you may agree with it, you may not agree with it, but I can tell you in complete honesty that I am trying my best to do this on your behalf. And I cannot avoid doing this because otherwise I think I will be letting you down."
That's a clear reminder right there that a nation has been let down. And a hint that the whole televised charade was an apology-in-advance. It has to be too humiliating to bow and scrape twice in one life time.
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Why even bother with yet another CON?
ReplyDeletePut him on a debate panel along with opposition candidates, real live audience, and he can answer them in compete honesty to defend his policies that are "for our good"!
Forget about MSM and the mystery production team.
Alternative media like TOC or IQ should just get it going. If PAP declines, then all others Oppo candidates can just debate and thrash the current policies as they see fit.
The voters should not be held to ransom by a rogue media and party. Push through our own democracy.
A simple tv interview and he couldn't even come clean . What else can you expect from a hidden bank vault that stores our national wealth?
DeleteWhat interview?
ReplyDeleteIt was a:
1) Monologue
2) Dialogue
3) CONversation
Take your pick.
It's an unscheduled election campaign speech that is only available to the un-natural aristocrat. Now the opposition parties should demand equal air time on prime time TV. Such lopsided election campaigning only happens in NKorea.
DeleteEven the father is campaigning for him from his urn on prime time TV slots several times each day. Does that not constitute political broadcast? And the polling date has not even been announced.
DeleteHas election campaigning started? Is he in violation? how come nobody to account for this tv production? Wow, SG govt is like MY , can produce magics when it needs to. Like how some strange RM 50 dollars notes are donated to our expressways and money dropped from the sky, but no one has reported lost!!! Incredible. So who are the donar or sponsor of this programming ? Is not a rocket science question!!!
DeletePropagalogue?
DeleteNotice his choice of strange words" we need to build a singapore singapore..."
DeleteWhat the heck does that even mean? Why didn't he just be clear and say Singaporean singapore?
http://youtu.be/QeWwKZl0JVQ
DeleteOwnself direct, ownself acting, ownself produce and then pass it off grounds up consensus from its own activist. ..ownself say can feel, can think, can do LOL...win Liao lor !!!
Isn't it amazing? After the last GE, he said 2% is what is sustainable in the long run, and that GDP growth will no longer be the sacred cow. Now the PM is still talking about 3% to 4% GDP growth set when the GDP bonus was benchmark to 3% way back in 2007 when it was raised in parliament. I wonder if the Swiss has a GDP target like this? But then hor, the Swiss senior civil servants don't have a money-spinning scheme called GDP bonus to triple their income every year lor!
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ReplyDeleteHe says he has responsibility towards Singaporeans. So why not just account for it openly? The illiterate voters of the past from your daddy's era is over. Stop patronizing the literate voters or get out of our way towards a real and genuinely democractic and open society. If you insists on burying your heads in the sand, and with aid of your state media to do the echo chamber for your bunch of deaf frogs, we have no choice but to do what is right for the people .
I was expecting a Newsnight grilling style of interviewees by Jeremy Paxman but then knowing the local timid and meek reporters/interviewers, gave it a miss.
ReplyDeleteGlad I didn;t waste my time
In complete honesty, I must say the filial son of the horrible man, whose voice we still hear over TV even though he is dead and buried, is desperate to recover votes lost through massive import of faked talents.
ReplyDeleteHe is better known not what he has done for Singaporean, but what he has done to Singaporean who spoke out against his policies!
He is asking for 25 more years to get his demography right. Eerrrr, that's like 5 elections of black cheques for you?
DeleteI didn't watch any propaganda on SG50 or simisai election details. Is a total black out in case all these overboard overloading may result in an uncontrollable outburst of ". Finally The horrible SG50 is dead over!! let's get this party over and hope for a good change...
ReplyDeleteDon't know whose farking idea to celebrate a nations jubilee with angst ridden campaigning all mixed up at same time! Goes to show the clueless lack of EQ.
//hint that the whole televised charade was an apology-in-advance. It has to be too humiliating to bow and scrape twice in one life time.//
ReplyDeleteRemember what happens when Georgie asked for his chance in aljunied after he messed up the 2nd chance?
Cho hee (wayang). He is very scared his population policy will cost him. Come clean and say sorry lah, and reverse the PWP. "And I cannot avoid doing this…." You can avoid doing this by leaving, just go, for any good you have been doing lately; depart, and let us have done with you. Go and stick with your hard disk and sudoko.
ReplyDeleteThe horrible person on his son: “I mean, he has a very comprehensive mind… what is the latest hard computer disk around? What can it hold? Whatever, he’s got that kind of a hard disk [in his head].”
In the land of the rising son, even his own GRC kaki has resigned to tell him to stop growth of PRs and newcomers. Said his team has addressed that antsy issue. With what? Another new call by Mr Deaffrog "survival of the fastest"
ReplyDeleteWhen will the PG generation realise that their "pai mia" card entitlements and so-called subsidies are actually their very own blood and sweat contribution tax money.
ReplyDeleteSG50 freebies, subsidies, SG50 baby bonus etc are all from our hard earned taxes. Wake up.
I say, the marginal tax rate for the rich, starting with income above $160K per year (top 5% earners), is being raised in 2016, etc... (see below). About time too - the Buffet tax. To finance Ah Loong's profligacy (see SG50 Celebrations, PA $1 billion budget, Changi Jewel, MCE, North-south Expressway, Bird Park, 4th Changi Terminal, 89 MP salaries, all the pork barrels, etc), don't be surprised that GST will also go to 10%....after the elections. Methinks, the 1.9% "derisory" transport fare reduction is just to sweeten this bitter pill. I wonder how much Tharman wil set aside for his "trampoline" safety net for the poor - don't hold your breath.
Deletehttp://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-budget-2015-personal-income-tax-for-top-5-of-earners-to-be-raised-says-tharman
Give Pinky a break, if you been through the same life as he did you will also emerge as a shell of a man who isn't allowed to be a real person with his own will, but instead a walking zombie so thoroughly torn apart by the whims of his dad, the PAP and the rest of our elite society.
ReplyDeleteNot that is an valid excuse for incompetence at the helm or whether he deserves that post to begin with.