Not gian the tissue juz the gesture they r showing wan to make me
laugh...... :P
"We accept the verdict of the people, but they must also accept the
consequences of their actions. You must expect the PAP to look
after PAP constituencies first."
His latest comments come hot on the heels of another stern warning
to voters on Friday, when he said Aljunied voters will "pay a price, the
hard way" if they voted for the Opposition. His remarks then
sparked a huge backlash online, with close to 3,000 comments on
Yahoo! alone questioning MM Lee's motives.
Netizens have also not taken too kindly to the 87-year-old's latest
warnings, calling them a thinly veiled threat to voters.
Yahoo!
News reader Secret wrote,
"Dear MM Lee, I am a resident of Aljunied... I do not need you to
either lecture or intimidate me. You and your ilk may be the "CEO"
of Singapore Inc now, but even the CEO has to answer to the
stakeholders -- and we citizens are the stakeholders who have the
right to either keep you employed or fire you."
Another reader Jubilant said,
"Voters of Aljunied GRC will be intimidated by your threats.
Instead you should be the one to repent for insulting the
intelligence of Aljunied voters."
Users of micro-blogging service Twitter were also quick to
criticise MM Lee.
@SamanthaDelina said,
"Quite disgusted by MM Lee's comments on WP. No matter how great
PAP is, I don't see a need for them to put others down."
Another user @duncanchew was
also appalled and wondered, "How can those words come out from MM
Lee's mouth?"
On Saturday, MM Lee also questioned WP's real intentions.
"It's not just to win one GRC. Let's have no hypocrisy about this,
every political party sets out to win and win a majority and they
are setting out from a single constituency to a GRC and then expand
to more GRCs and then take over. It's up to you to decide whether
they are capable of running Singapore," he said.
The high-powered
'A' team from the Workers's Party contesting the Aljunied
hotspot consists of former Hougang MP Low Thia Khiang, former NCMP
Sylvia Lim, the party's "star catch" Chen Show Mao as well as
family counsellor Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap and post-graduate law
student Pritam Singh.
They will be up against the incumbent PAP team
fronted by Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo, Minister in the
Prime Minister's Office Lim Hwee Hua, Senior Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs Zainul Abidin Rasheed, Madam Cynthia Phua and new
face Ong Ye Kung, an assistant secretary-general of NTUC .
Separately on Saturday, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong also
commented on the impact should Mr Yeo and his Aljunied GRC team be
voted out of Parliament.
Speaking at a rally in Marine Parade GRC, SM Goh said Mr Yeo has
been handling delicate negotiations with Malaysia and Indonesia on
border issues.
Describing that Singapore has a "beautiful arrangement" -- with an
Indian as President, a Chinese as Prime Minister and a Malay,
Zainul Abidin Rasheed, as potential Speaker of Parliament -- SM Goh
said that "on the basis of merit we ended up with this, a
politically balanced, beautiful picture'.
"You knock out George Yeo and Zainul Abidin. Well, you'll have to
look for another Speaker on the basis of merit. Well, that person
may not be Zainul Abidin once he's out, or another Malay MP.
"These are the fine points of politics which we in PAP understand,
which we try to manage quietly. But the opposition says never mind,
George Yeo can be a diplomat. Come off it, that's not the way you
build up a first-rate government."
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Komade you
are correct.
Not gian the tissue juz the gesture they r showing wan to make me
laugh...... :P
