Singapore General Political Discussion and News

[Kamala's side hoe]

The ideological SDP which had promise thanks to the return of it's veteran leader Chee Soon Juan yet again failed and is still in the wilderness being too bound to it's ideology and toxicity of its a leader to ever become an electoral force of strength. The rest of the opposition parties are one-note bands led by people with more ego than sense, that only get protests votes.

Interesting, how is Chee Soon Juan considered a “toxic” leader?

[Kamala's side hoe]

The ideological SDP which had promise thanks to the return of it's veteran leader Chee Soon Juan yet again failed and is still in the wilderness being too bound to it's ideology and toxicity of its a leader to ever become an electoral force of strength. The rest of the opposition parties are one-note bands led by people with more ego than sense, that only get protests votes.

Interesting, how is Chee Soon Juan considered a “toxic” leader?

I'm too young to know about it personally, but he was very confrontational yelling in public about how the pap leaders had loaned billions to Suhatro. He also betrayed his mentor Chiam see Tong which splits the opposition, and has a lot of baggage. He also had a nasty habit of badmouthing Singapore to the international press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chee_Soon_Juan

I see. I think I first heard about Chee when Amos Yee mentioned him in one of his teenage edgelord rants. This is a video of Chee giving a SDP stump speech in Taiwanese/Hokkien with some Mandarin sprinkled in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVcXYYcWjtI

[Kamala's side hoe]

Finished Making this.
Political Compass of Singapore

Saved from link rot because I kaypoh

"a promise is a commitment" = Choong Hon Heng
"chong he ti tong" = Charles Yeo
"you'd don't need much space for sex" = Josephine Teo
"warms the cockles of my heart" = Jamus Lin

[Kamala's side hoe]

This is from last September, but no one seems to have posted it yet, so.....  

Singapore just took Hong Kong’s place as Asia’s top financial center—and as the new partner to London and New York

This was inevitable in the grand scheme of things, a lot of Hong Kong and Taiwan's economic preeminence was predicated on China not having its s019 together and/or being closed off from the world.