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77 approved (all PAP members of parliament);
13 said no, including all 9 Workers' Party Parliamentarians, 1 Non-Constituency MP (Lina Chiam) and 3 Nominated MPs (Laurence Lien, Faizah Jamal, and Janice Koh);
1 abstained (Nominated MP Eugene Tan);
8 were absent, one ostensibly being Lee Kuan Yew.
Assuming the rest of the 5 NMPs absented themselves (Tan Su Shan, Dhinakaran, Mary Liew, Teo Siong Seng, Nicholas Fang), 2 PAP MPs are unaccounted for. Maybe they are planning ahead to join George Yeo in Hong Kong. Inderjit Singh must be glad his wayang role in the good cop/bad cop episode is over, and he can safely vote according to party instructions, and not what's truly in his heart of hearts. Or did he? Singh will only admit, "All I want to say is I was not present for the vote." The exercise clearly demonstrates why the number of alternate party voices in parliament must increase.
The TV commentator claimed Lee Hsien Loong was teary eyed at one stage, as he made a final plea to a sceptical Singapore, talking about the importance of retaining a "Singapore core" of people who have families and homes here and who were willing to defend the nation. Without elaborating on his definition of "nation". Sure, his father promised to build a metropolis 10 years after being turfed out of Malaysia, but even the old man must have been thinking of a Singapore for Singaporeans. Not mainland Chinese, Filipinos, Burmese, Vietnamese or Hindi speaking Indians. Remarkably, Lee junior still referred to the foreigners as "transients", completely ignorant of the many permanent jobs lost by the PMETs. He asked a curious question, "if the non-residents outnumber the core, are we being diluted?" Liddat can also become Prime Minister.
Lee senior must have good reason to miss the watershed vote. After all, this was the guy who promised in a 1988 National Day rally: "Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up."
Last to speak, Teo Chee Hean was obviously confident of the final tally, his mind already tuned out elsewhere when he addressed Halimah Yacob as "Madam Speaker, sir". So what if the policy was cut down to roadmap status, rightside up or upside down, with more than two thirds of the seats in parliament, these characters can even change the constitution at the snap of a finger. That's how much power the 60.1 percent has given them at GE 2011.
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So many pap MPs talk so much, but in the end they all protect their multi million salary by voting AYE. Brings new meaning to the word wayang.
ReplyDeleteThis my fried is called 1 party rule. There is never a surprise.
DeletePM Lee claims that he doesnt want to kick the can down the road for future leaders to solve the problem ( his cabinet created!)? But in the same breath, he said the population size in 2030 is for future govt to decide!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe my England is too lousy to understand his double speak
That publicity whore abstained because he has no balls or he is carrying someone's else balls?
ReplyDeleteStill searching for his balls.
DeleteHe is notorious for carry balls of men in white. Afte so many years of carrying balls, his own balls have disappefed!
DeleteCase closed. Just do the right thing come 2016. Take charge of your life and for your children. Parliament is just a wayang with the present wannabe "politicians". How dare they claim to represent Singaporeans.
ReplyDeletePAP: 77 voted yes to 6.9 million
ReplyDeletePAP: 8 absent.
Alternative Parties: 13 Voted no. With one abstain.
"There is no groupthink ..."
Crocodile tears - Lim Boon Heng
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYjQk7H7cnQ
Think about this the next time you vote PAP to "represent" you in parliament.
Still think a PAP MP is his own man?
Still think he represents you?
Correction:
DeletePAP MPs: 3 were absent.
Maybe could not find their "balls" or just too ashamed to show up.
Wah, can siam voting just by absenting one from Parliament. No need valid reason to AWOL. No wonder Parliament always so empty. PAP MPs "busy" somewhere else.
DeleteParly is always empty because all your paid-for MPs (with exception of Ministers) are all just doing part-time half-baked jobs. What do you expect out of such a half-hearted commitment. Even more ironic when this paper is so critical, where our lives would depend on it (in PAP words), that we open and shut the case in such a speedy haste!
DeleteLet's help Lee Hsien Loong empathize with Singaporeans. Vote in a strong PAP core in 2016. Even if the opposition outnumbers the PAP core, Parliament will not be diluted. It is not just about numbers but spirit. Oh and someone forget HEART.
ReplyDeleteI like your "roadmap" and am looking forward to witness the real crocodile tears after GE2016.
DeleteSo is Indejit Singh one of the three or one of the 77? Who is the third person absent? Why have NMPs when 5 out of 9 conveniently absent themselves from the most important bill? They sure knows which side of their bread is buttered.
ReplyDeleteHouse Speaker.
DeleteOne NMP abstained. More NMP failed to turn up.
DeleteSome PAP MPs absent.
Very interesting picture for some academic to write about, no ?
Well, those of you not happy should show up on the 16th at Hong Lim Park @ 4:30pm and or sign up the Referendum Petition that Mr Tan Kin Lian has set up.
Inderjit said he did not vote.
ReplyDeleteInderjit said he was not present. If he was, he had to vote. He was probably hiding in the jamban, flushing his pseudo-guts down the toilet.
DeleteCitizens certainly did NOT pass the motions. The 77 annointed pets did make BIG poops all over the house. Time to house-train them, Singaporeans!
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2013/02/08/singapore-passes-population-plan-after-heated-debate/
Autocracy and kleptocracy (legalized kleptocracy in fact) at its sheer finest....SPEECHLESS at this point. I can only pray for their demise now from afar.
DeleteMy wish now - Next step is for opposition to appeal to Tony Tan, and then file for a motion for a referendum on the white paper. It cannot be left for the few men in white to waste the nation away. Let's hear what our President has to say on this and his stand . Singaporeans need to know.
ReplyDeleteHe is LHL's uncle.. What do u think he will say?
DeleteMy dear nephew loong, I also not enuf power, ony 34% voters supported me leh, you ask your papa hally to tahan lah!
DeleteOnline-nations.net -
ReplyDeletePseudo-Democratic: describes a political system which calls itself democratic, but offers no real choice for the citizens. This lack of choice can come from limited amount of diverse parties eligible for a vote, cemented power structures which are not really affected by any vote, no availability of a voting option "none of the above" for voters who favour change to the current political landscape, no direct democratic means, et cetera ...
@ anon, there is another option in a democracy, that is to join the many other Singaporean for a garden picnic @ Hong lim park on the 16/2 @ 4.30. Let's keep it clean and safe events for all the participants and Gilbert who is organizing this event.
ReplyDeleteWe give our votes to the 90+ MPs to represent the entire Singapore and some of them did not turn up? I would rather they turn up and vote - whichever way. You represent Singaporeans right? Why can't you just turn up and vote? 10% of them did not turn up to vote? What a joke.
ReplyDeleteI think it's important to identify the absent Members of Parliament.
ReplyDeleteWe need to know what their priorities are.
With apologies in advance, I think the following MPs were absent;
1. Lee Kuan Yew, PAP MP (absent)
2. Inderjit Singh PAP MP (absent)
3. Speaker of the House PAP MP (present but cannot vote)
4. Eugene Tan NCMP (present but abstain)
Did I miss anybody?
Or get my facts wrong?
Halimah Yacoob certainly can vote, is present to vote and did vote yes. It is just that she cannot participate in the debates.
DeleteYou are correct. Article 57(2) specifically provides that the Speaker, if he or she is an MP can vote although her vote shall not be a casting vote.
Deleteexpected but disgraceful results............thanks to the 60% who gave them the 2/3 majority to screw us for the next 3.5 years
ReplyDelete77 Judases with their 2, 310 pieces of silver
ReplyDelete"You are at the heart of all of our policies."
ReplyDeletePM Lee Hsien Loong
Really?
Why not you face us outside of parliament.
Venue: Hong Lim Park.
Date: Sat 16 Feb
Time: 4.30 pm.
Unless 2 million Singaporeans attend this event, it is not going to work. Deaf frogs will remain deaf. Daft sheeps will still believe we are the minority. MSM will still twist and turn your intent. Most effective way to show ur displeasure is still at the ballot box.
DeleteVery true.
DeleteBut 2016 still 3 more years.
So must play "slap the driver" to pass the time.
PS:
remember to convert at least one of the 60% of your friends & relatives who voted for the Traitors in GE 2011.
Georgie boy's defection to HK proved a simple cruel reality of game theory: if you know your side will likely lose in 2016, then the first group to rush to the exit will be spared the day of accountability post 2016. As the clock ticks towards 2016, their gang of supporters and top civil servants must be thinking how they can avoid the fate that awaits them come 2016. The rush for the exit will simply mean a total collapse for them. The only solution is to change the constitution to make a loss for the PAP mathematically impossible to prevent the mad rush for exit. All shud start thinking how to counter the forthcoming changes.
ReplyDeleteYes, George Yeo taking up the Hong Kong authority appointment is telling.
DeleteAs I mentioned, elsewhere, it could not be he is not aware of the poor air quality in Hong Kong.
The poor atmosphere here in Singapore must have turn him off. He must be thinking of his children and their children future, no ?
Who cares about Georgie? He die also not my business.
DeleteSo long never hear the name of George Yeo.
DeleteI thot he went up the lorry already.
"Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says the best way to strengthen the Singaporean core is to encourage more Singaporeans to marry, and have more children."
ReplyDeleteYes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full,
Baaa...baaa...
Reminds me of the following exhortation from God:
Genesis 35:11 - "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply."
ReplyDeleteIf God is there...God will send a real ligntning bolt up Pinky loong ass for all the harm he is doing to real peoples lifes...
Farker llfe already ruined by his dad...instead of taking out of his dad for not letting him have a real proper human and happy life...LHL taking it out of us...
His 2nd wife screw up so many times....and his cronies...instead of taking it out on them, he took it out on us...
Something seriously mentally wrong with him...and what's left of his salvageable soul...
Sad.
For everyone in the end.
Enough of all the crocodile tears. We are sick and tired of all the fiasco you have put up for show all these years.
ReplyDeleteGive us back (the true blue, born and bred Singaporeans) the respect, dignity, entitlement and our rightful space. Stop torturing us by squeezing us under the threats of pressure cooker timeframes and ultimatums.
Don't be surprised that if our cries for help are not conceeded, slowly but surely a revolt might be in the making.
If only 10.1% people not so dumb, it will be a different story today.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 2/11/2013 7:00pm, I would not blame it on 10%. Effectively, if every constituency has a 50% tilt towards the opposition, but the opposition still loses by one vote, they might technically lose all the constituencies. That is a hypothetical case. Right now, Singaporeans should really stop blaming voters or whatever and work to STOP the government from going full swing into this mass importing of 2 million new citizens. Remember, they increased the population by half a million only within a few years. What makes you all think that they will only stop at 2 more million people? A "guideline" is a guideline to them, and not an end, so it might even be impossible that they can exceed their calculations and import more than 2 million people. STOP them!
ReplyDeleteI mean, it might not even be impossible.
ReplyDelete