Yawning Bread: #hougangbyelection campaign shows PAP on auto-pilot.

Hougang by-election campaign shows PAP on auto-pilot

yawningbread.wordpress.com 23 May '12, 4am

Yawning Bread: #hougangbyelection campaign shows PAP on auto-pilot.

Political researcher James Gomez once said to me: “Elections in Singapore all follow a pattern. The first two or three days of the campaign are about the issues and the rest are about a man.” At the time, he was referring to general elections. I see now that it applies equally to by-elections. The People’s Action Party (PAP) has made character assassination its chief campaign strategy. Again. The “man” in this instance is obvious – it is Png Eng Huat, the Workers’ Party candidate in Hougang. I see that today’s mainstream Straits Times has whipped itself up into a suitably loyal frenzy by using the phrase “allegations of dishonesty” in one of its headlines. I have no intention of commenting on the details of these “allegations”. They are so ridiculously inconsequential, it only shows how clean the man is. Is that all the “dirt” that the huge machinery that is the PAP can fi...

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Hougang By-election Campaign Shows PAP On Auto-pilot: Alex Au, Yawning Bread: While it looks as if the Workers’... [link]
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"Is that all the “dirt” that the huge machinery that is the PAP can find on him?" [link]
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RT @jennyteo: Hougang by-election campaign shows PAP on auto-pilot [Yawning Bread] [link] (excellent analysis.) #Hougangbyelection
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Hougang by-election campaign shows PAP on auto-pilot [Yawning Bread] [link] (excellent analysis.) #Hougangbyelection
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PAP has made character assassination its chief campaign strategy. [link]
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RT @jennyteo: Hougang by-election campaign shows PAP on auto-pilot [Yawning Bread] [link] (excellent analysis.) #Hougangbyelection