Candidates introduced born where?

casefan SG

A number of candidates for the election were introduced recently. Does anyone know where each of them was born? Although their names, qualifications, marital status, no. of children etc. were made known, there was nothing concerning their country of birth.

casefan SG

Nobody knows? I don’t want to vote in another FT.

oxford mushroom SG

Your ancestor was also a FT. The only locals on this island when Raffles came by were a bunch of Orang Lauts.

abao SG

all i know is most of them are either 1. Independent School Students, 2. Lawyers, Doctors, CEOs, Accountants and 3. All said that they are non-conformist Laughing

dakkon_blackblade SG

They all seem as spotless as the white clothes that they wear. So sterilised that no dirt nor germ could stick to them.

casefan SG

You missed the point. You are right in that all our ancestors were immigrants but I would rather have a local born person representing me in parliament than someone who has relocated here in recent years for whatever reason. All else being equal, I would trust a local born person with my welfare more than an FT. Are you an FT, if you don't mind me asking?

will4 SG

As long as the FT has coverted his citizenship, it should not be a problem. Smile

king108 SG

Laughing I think if FT can performed here, their countries will even need them more than us.

casefan SG

Quote:"As long as the FT has coverted his citizenship, it should not be a problem."

Yes there can be a problem. Say, for instance, the FT is formerly a malaysian, would he approve of policies that are good for Singapore but bad for Malaysia, bearing in mind that the rest of his family (father,mother, brothers etc) are still in Malaysia?

king108 SG

Wow, your ancestor is FT. Great man. Mine is only peasant only, but I know a lot real scholars never come out of China.
Laughing

casefan SG

The FTs have taken over many jobs from Singaporeans. Do you want them to take over the running of the nation as well?

will4 SG

Which occupation they took from us? To my understanding today, occupation such as those not popular with local requring shift work n hard labour mostly

taken from them. Smile

hisoka SG

as i understand it alot of high lvl management positions are taken by foreigners as one example

will4 SG

I knew Temasek had an NZ director but he alrdy a PR here.

hisoka SG

stilll an ft if you ask me.

and also truth is to most if not all you are not a true singaporean if you are not born here or raised here. which makes sense since there is always a suspicion that the ft will be more suspectible to being more sympathetic to the home country, or jsut here to make a quick buck and then while time away without real care for the country or pple.

sgdiehard SG

the local born who are not ready to fight for singapore, you trust them?
the local born who are ready to migrate anytime, you trust them?
any FT who have gained their singaporean citizenship is no longer an FT.
FT who gave up their old citizenships for singapore citizenships are certainly more trustworthy than those local born who are not prepared to stay on in singapore.
If you can't stand the former FT from standing for election, than come out and take them on as opposition! Mr. Green

will4 SG

I like to make a point: If Sporean go to some other countries n took up PR,
isn't he also treated as an FT?

will4 SG

I somehow agreed on this point. Smile

casefan SG

You are assuming most local born are not ready to fight for Singapore. You are assuming most local born are ready to migrate anytime. What rubbish!
An FT has forsaken his country of birth, what is there to stop him from packing up and going somewhere else when the going gets tough here.

You did not answer or chose to evade the question. Are you an FT? Where are you from? Are you really a sg diehard or only when the going is good for you (or only during a football match)?

hisoka SG

prob, so what??

they can distrust him or here there bah. you must realise that all this ft labelling is at a local lvl.