CDC vouchers and SkillsFuture credits are a total fucking joke - it's akin to plastering a band-aid over a deep wound already hemorrhaging liters. The monkeys in white should seriously just go fuck themselves for their patronizing antics 🖕
Hundreds of scholarships given to foreign students, jobs meant for Singaporeans snatched by foreigners, one's CPF gets locked up for way longer than intended, the list goes on.....this woman is therefore not going to vote for PAP.
Stuck-up fucker is now trying to imply indirectly he had done a resplendent job for his constituency😝
SINGAPORE - Political parties that wish to contest Tampines in the upcoming general election must know the ground well and meet the needs of residents, Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli said, when asked about a potential showdown with the Workers’ Party at the polls.
Mr Masagos, the anchor minister for Tampines GRC, said: “Whoever wants to come here must be sure that they know what they are in for, and they must meet the expectations of our Tampines residents.”
Speaking to the media during the launch of the Hari Raya festivities at Our Tampines Hub on March 22, Mr Masagos was asked about competition he would face in Tampines from other political parties, including WP.
I have every confidence that WP will ensure this Dr Adrian Ang (whoever he is) shall never, ever see the inside of the Singapore Parliament House like his failed predecessor 👌
Singapore’s Opposition Claim ‘Gerrymandering’ Ahead of Election
Opposition parties in Singapore called into question revisions to the electoral boundaries, accusing officials of “gerrymandering” ahead of a critical vote only months away.
The Electoral Boundaries Review Committee released its report on Tuesday proposing changes to all but nine electoral divisions.
“It is nothing short of massive gerrymandering in plain sight,” the fringe People’s Power Party said in a Facebook post.
“This is really unhealthy for democratic development, disruptive and wasteful of resources in reorganising town councils and disrespectful to Singaporeans at large.”
The main opposition Workers’ Party noted “significant changes” to areas it had been working in in recent years. Others called out the committee comprised of top civil servants and led by the secretary to Prime Minister Lawrence Wong for not providing sufficient explanation for the changes.
The city-state’s elections department did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
Objections to Singapore’s process of deciding electoral boundaries are not new in a political system that’s been dominated by the ruling People’s Action Party since independence in 1965. In August, Progress Singapore Party raised a motion in parliament calling on the government to review how the boundaries are drawn, “to reduce the potential for gerrymandering in our system.”
The motion was later rejected by popular vote. The government said that suggestion was based on “false premises” and the committee works in the interest of voters, not those of political parties.
“Much of the EBRC’s decision-making remains unexplained,” Progress Singapore Party Secretary-General Hazel Poa said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “The EBRC could have accounted for the population shifts without making drastic changes to existing major electoral boundaries.”
Changes to the electoral zones signal that Singapore is approaching its next vote, the first since Wong took over the top post from long-time incumbent former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in May. In the last election in 2020, the ruling PAP won 89% of the parliamentary seats in its worst performance ever due in part to concerns about the economy. Worries about cost of living pressures remain top of mind for Singaporeans.
Wong has warned that the next vote which is due by November, but could come much sooner, would be a high-stakes one and that even a modest swing in the popular vote would lead to a weaker government.
This year, the electoral boundaries committee said it took into consideration significant changes in the number of electors in current divisions due to population shifts and housing developments. It recommended increasing the number of electoral divisions from 31 to 33 and the number of seats in parliament from 93 to 97.
Population growth my ass. When a slithery motherfucking bolehlander like him who never did a single day of NS can be given rein to inspect our troops, whatever he says must be taken with extra large pinches of salt.
GE2025: Extensive changes to electoral boundaries due to population shifts; only 5 GRCs, 4 SMCs left intact
SINGAPORE: Major changes have been made to Singapore’s electoral map, with just five Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and four single-seat wards remaining unchanged from the last election.
Five new GRCs and six new Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) have been created, according to the report released by the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee (EBRC) on Tuesday (Mar 11), almost seven weeks after it was convened.
The total number of constituencies now stands at 33, compared to 31 previously. The next parliament will comprise 97 elected Members of Parliament, up from the current 93, with each MP representing 28,384 voters – slightly fewer than in the last election.'
The EBRC explained in its report that the changes took into consideration the significant growth in voter numbers in certain areas, along with consequential changes to adjacent wards. Some boundary lines have also been realigned along geographical features such as major roads.
Six of the 15 SMCs are new – Bukit Gombak, Jalan Kayu, Jurong Central, Queenstown, Sembawang West and Tampines Changkat.
Gone from the map are Yuhua, Bukit Batok, Hong Kah North, MacPherson and Punggol West, which have been absorbed into GRCs.
There are now 18 GRCs, including five new ones: Pasir Ris-Changi, Punggol, Jurong East-Bukit Batok, Marine Parade-Braddell Heights and West Coast-Jurong West.
Of the GRCs, 10 will have five MPs while eight will have four members.
The boundaries of the opposition-held Aljunied GRC were also redrawn for the first time since the 2011 hustings.
The EBRC was tasked to “keep the average size of GRCs, the proportion of Members of Parliament elected from SMCs, and the average ratio of electors to elected MPs, all at about the same as that in the last General Election”, when it was formed in late January.
A total of 82 seats will be contested in GRCs in the coming General Election — an average of 4.56 MPs per GRC.
This continued a downward trend over the past election cycles. The 2020 contest saw 4.65 MPs per GRC, down from 4.75 MPs per GRC in 2015 and five MPs per GRC in 2011. The figure had peaked at 5.36 in 2001 and 2006.
The GRC system was established in 1988 to ensure that the minority races will be represented in parliament.
GRCs can have three to six MPs and at least one of them must be from a minority race. Moreover, the number of GRCs with a Malay MP cannot be more than three-fifths the total number of GRCs.
UNEVEN VOTER GROWTH
The overall growth in voters across the island was not evenly distributed across the various wards, said the EBRC in its report.
“Due to population shifts and new housing developments, some EDs (electoral divisions) such as Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Sembawang GRC, Tampines GRC, Hong Kah North SMC and Potong Pasir SMC have experienced higher growth than others,” it said.
There were 2,753,226 voters on the electoral roll as of Feb 1 this year, an increase of 101,791 electors from 2,651,435 electors in the last contest, said the EBRC.
The starting point of its review was to look at wards which had grown significantly since the last election – Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Hong Kah North SMC, Sembawang GRC and Tampines GRC.
“Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC has seen the largest increase in the number of electors since the last GE, and will continue to grow with new housing developments,” it said.
There are currently 184,593 voters in the constituency, up from 166,556 who cast their ballots in the 2020 contest – an increase of 18,037, or 10.8 per cent.
The Punggol estates in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC were hence carved out and merged with Punggol West SMC to form a new four-member Punggol GRC, the EBRC said. “This will also better reflect the identity of the estates in Punggol town.”
Hong Kah North SMC, which currently has 45,586 voters and breaches the upper limit for a single-seat ward, “has grown significantly and will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years, due to new housing developments in Tengah and Bukit Batok West”, according to the report.
“It has become too big to remain as an SMC,” said the EBRC, in explaining its rationale for absorbing the Tengah estates into Chua Chu Kang GRC.
A new Bukit Gombak SMC was then formed from the Bukit Gombak and Hillview estates in Chua Chu Kang GRC, in order to keep the ward as a four-member team while “accommodating significant future population growth in Tengah”.
Voter growth also saw the creation of Sembawang West SMC from Sembawang GRC, and Tampines Changkat SMC from Tampines GRC.
“The committee also recommended reducing the size of Ang Mo Kio GRC, which has the most electors of any ED, by carving out some polling districts to form a new Jalan Kayu SMC,” the EBRC said.
Ang Mo Kio GRC currently has 190,800 voters.
IMPACT ON ADJACENT WARDS
With the formation of the new Punggol GRC, the remaining districts in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC were then merged with adjacent areas from East Coast GRC. Together with the Loyang and Flora estates, they form a new four-member Pasir Ris-Changi GRC.
East Coast GRC then in turn took in districts from Marine Parade GRC, comprising the Chai Chee HDB estates and the Siglap private estates.
High population growth in Potong Pasir SMC due to the new Bidadari developments meant the EBRC moved districts from the single-seat ward to Marine Parade GRC.
MacPherson SMC and an adjacent district from Mountbatten SMC, were also absorbed into Marine Parade GRC.
“Even with the Tengah estates being absorbed into Chua Chu Kang GRC, the remaining Hong Kah North SMC, comprising Bukit Batok West estates, is still too big and growing,” said the EBRC.
The remaining districts of Hong Kah North SMC, together with adjacent ones in Bukit Batok and Yuhua SMCs, hence merged with Jurong GRC to form a new Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC.
To maintain the new constituency as a five-member team, some areas were carved out to form a new Jurong Central SMC.
Some estates in Jurong West and Taman Jurong were also moved to the adjacent West Coast GRC, with the new bloc renamed as West Coast-Jurong West GRC.
To maintain the number of MPs there, the eastern-most district of the current West Coast GRC, namely estates in Harbourfront and Sentosa, were placed under Radin Mas SMC.
Areas in the Dover and Telok Blangah estates were also absorbed into the adjacent Tanjong Pagar GRC. A new Queenstown SMC was then created from Tanjong Pagar GRC in order to maintain its five-member quota.
REALIGNMENT, DOUBLE-BARREL NAMES
Some other boundaries were also altered to align with key geographical features, said the EBRC.
“In particular, the HDB developments under construction at Rail Green I @ CCK and Rail Green II @ CCK straddle the current electoral boundary between Chua Chu Kang and Holland-Bukit Timah GRCs. The boundary was aligned to the former railway track which no longer exists,” it explained.
The boundary was hence realigned along Woodlands Road instead, effectively assigning these new housing estates to Chua Chu Kang GRC.
Polling districts in Tampines West, located in the east of Bedok Reservoir and currently under Aljunied GRC, were also shifted to Tampines GRC.
Holland-Bukit Timah GRC has also absorbed a portion of Upper Bukit Timah Road, currently under Jurong GRC.
“The committee recommended maintaining status quo for Bishan-Toa Payoh, Jalan Besar, Marsiling-Yew Tee, Nee Soon, Sengkang GRCs and Bukit Panjang, Hougang, Marymount and Pioneer SMCs,” the EBRC said of the wards left untouched from 2020.
Double-barrelled names have also been adopted to “better reflect the identities of the geographical areas in the GRCs”, added the EBRC.
They can say whatever they want, regardless I still won't vote for them.
Watch out for next month's 10th year anniversary of 'Get well soon', I expect no less than such an antic coming from them. They are laughably predictable creatures.
CSJ: "Make sure you send a clear, no-nonsense message to the PAP that our country cannot afford to continue with this insanity of raising the costs of living and making our lives so stressful."
GE2025 Rally: SDP's Chee Soon Juan accuses PAP of 'profligate spending'
Hundreds of scholarships given to foreign students, jobs meant for Singaporeans snatched by foreigners, one's CPF gets locked up for way longer than intended, the list goes on.....this woman is therefore not going to vote for PAP.
What kind of a fucking manifesto is this???
On the grapevine courtesy of Shin Min Daily News: Parliament may be dissolved today.
We need not just new voices, but new, alternative voices!!!!
A disillusioned Jurong resident spends a good 1.5min griping about the PAP:
‘I look forward to serving Fernvale, Jalan Kayu residents if PM sends me here’: Ng Chee Meng
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/i-look-forward-to-serving-fernvale-jalan-kayu-residents-if-pm-sends-me-here-ng-chee-meng
GE2025: Labour chief Ng Chee Meng seen at Fernvale, part of new Jalan Kayu SMC, ahead of election
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/ge2025-labour-chief-ng-chee-meng-spotted-at-fernvale-part-of-new-jalan-kayu-smc-ahead-of-polls
GE2025: NTUC chief Ng Chee Meng attends community event in new Jalan Kayu SMC alongside SM Lee
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ntuc-ng-chee-meng-ge2025-lee-hsien-loong-5003961
Currently circulating on Telegram:
PAP: Self-serving or not? DeepSeek provides a no-holds-barred, glaringly unflattering analysis.
Lao hero gave ET the middle finger during his visit to a coffeeshop😁
Singapore’s Opposition Claim ‘Gerrymandering’ Ahead of Election
Opposition parties in Singapore called into question revisions to the electoral boundaries, accusing officials of “gerrymandering” ahead of a critical vote only months away.
The Electoral Boundaries Review Committee released its report on Tuesday proposing changes to all but nine electoral divisions.
“It is nothing short of massive gerrymandering in plain sight,” the fringe People’s Power Party said in a Facebook post.
“This is really unhealthy for democratic development, disruptive and wasteful of resources in reorganising town councils and disrespectful to Singaporeans at large.”
The main opposition Workers’ Party noted “significant changes” to areas it had been working in in recent years. Others called out the committee comprised of top civil servants and led by the secretary to Prime Minister Lawrence Wong for not providing sufficient explanation for the changes.
The city-state’s elections department did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
Objections to Singapore’s process of deciding electoral boundaries are not new in a political system that’s been dominated by the ruling People’s Action Party since independence in 1965. In August, Progress Singapore Party raised a motion in parliament calling on the government to review how the boundaries are drawn, “to reduce the potential for gerrymandering in our system.”
The motion was later rejected by popular vote. The government said that suggestion was based on “false premises” and the committee works in the interest of voters, not those of political parties.
“Much of the EBRC’s decision-making remains unexplained,” Progress Singapore Party Secretary-General Hazel Poa said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “The EBRC could have accounted for the population shifts without making drastic changes to existing major electoral boundaries.”
Changes to the electoral zones signal that Singapore is approaching its next vote, the first since Wong took over the top post from long-time incumbent former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in May. In the last election in 2020, the ruling PAP won 89% of the parliamentary seats in its worst performance ever due in part to concerns about the economy. Worries about cost of living pressures remain top of mind for Singaporeans.
Wong has warned that the next vote which is due by November, but could come much sooner, would be a high-stakes one and that even a modest swing in the popular vote would lead to a weaker government.
This year, the electoral boundaries committee said it took into consideration significant changes in the number of electors in current divisions due to population shifts and housing developments. It recommended increasing the number of electoral divisions from 31 to 33 and the number of seats in parliament from 93 to 97.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-12/singapore-s-opposition-claim-gerrymandering-ahead-of-election
Polling day - 10 May or 24 May? Have your pick
GE2025: Extensive changes to electoral boundaries due to population shifts; only 5 GRCs, 4 SMCs left intact
SINGAPORE: Major changes have been made to Singapore’s electoral map, with just five Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and four single-seat wards remaining unchanged from the last election.
Five new GRCs and six new Single Member Constituencies (SMCs) have been created, according to the report released by the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee (EBRC) on Tuesday (Mar 11), almost seven weeks after it was convened.
The total number of constituencies now stands at 33, compared to 31 previously. The next parliament will comprise 97 elected Members of Parliament, up from the current 93, with each MP representing 28,384 voters – slightly fewer than in the last election.'
The EBRC explained in its report that the changes took into consideration the significant growth in voter numbers in certain areas, along with consequential changes to adjacent wards. Some boundary lines have also been realigned along geographical features such as major roads.
Six of the 15 SMCs are new – Bukit Gombak, Jalan Kayu, Jurong Central, Queenstown, Sembawang West and Tampines Changkat.
Gone from the map are Yuhua, Bukit Batok, Hong Kah North, MacPherson and Punggol West, which have been absorbed into GRCs.
There are now 18 GRCs, including five new ones: Pasir Ris-Changi, Punggol, Jurong East-Bukit Batok, Marine Parade-Braddell Heights and West Coast-Jurong West.
Of the GRCs, 10 will have five MPs while eight will have four members.
The boundaries of the opposition-held Aljunied GRC were also redrawn for the first time since the 2011 hustings.
The EBRC was tasked to “keep the average size of GRCs, the proportion of Members of Parliament elected from SMCs, and the average ratio of electors to elected MPs, all at about the same as that in the last General Election”, when it was formed in late January.
A total of 82 seats will be contested in GRCs in the coming General Election — an average of 4.56 MPs per GRC.
This continued a downward trend over the past election cycles. The 2020 contest saw 4.65 MPs per GRC, down from 4.75 MPs per GRC in 2015 and five MPs per GRC in 2011. The figure had peaked at 5.36 in 2001 and 2006.
The GRC system was established in 1988 to ensure that the minority races will be represented in parliament.
GRCs can have three to six MPs and at least one of them must be from a minority race. Moreover, the number of GRCs with a Malay MP cannot be more than three-fifths the total number of GRCs.
UNEVEN VOTER GROWTH
The overall growth in voters across the island was not evenly distributed across the various wards, said the EBRC in its report.
“Due to population shifts and new housing developments, some EDs (electoral divisions) such as Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Sembawang GRC, Tampines GRC, Hong Kah North SMC and Potong Pasir SMC have experienced higher growth than others,” it said.
There were 2,753,226 voters on the electoral roll as of Feb 1 this year, an increase of 101,791 electors from 2,651,435 electors in the last contest, said the EBRC.
The starting point of its review was to look at wards which had grown significantly since the last election – Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Hong Kah North SMC, Sembawang GRC and Tampines GRC.
“Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC has seen the largest increase in the number of electors since the last GE, and will continue to grow with new housing developments,” it said.
There are currently 184,593 voters in the constituency, up from 166,556 who cast their ballots in the 2020 contest – an increase of 18,037, or 10.8 per cent.
The Punggol estates in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC were hence carved out and merged with Punggol West SMC to form a new four-member Punggol GRC, the EBRC said. “This will also better reflect the identity of the estates in Punggol town.”
Hong Kah North SMC, which currently has 45,586 voters and breaches the upper limit for a single-seat ward, “has grown significantly and will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years, due to new housing developments in Tengah and Bukit Batok West”, according to the report.
“It has become too big to remain as an SMC,” said the EBRC, in explaining its rationale for absorbing the Tengah estates into Chua Chu Kang GRC.
A new Bukit Gombak SMC was then formed from the Bukit Gombak and Hillview estates in Chua Chu Kang GRC, in order to keep the ward as a four-member team while “accommodating significant future population growth in Tengah”.
Voter growth also saw the creation of Sembawang West SMC from Sembawang GRC, and Tampines Changkat SMC from Tampines GRC.
“The committee also recommended reducing the size of Ang Mo Kio GRC, which has the most electors of any ED, by carving out some polling districts to form a new Jalan Kayu SMC,” the EBRC said.
Ang Mo Kio GRC currently has 190,800 voters.
IMPACT ON ADJACENT WARDS
With the formation of the new Punggol GRC, the remaining districts in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC were then merged with adjacent areas from East Coast GRC. Together with the Loyang and Flora estates, they form a new four-member Pasir Ris-Changi GRC.
East Coast GRC then in turn took in districts from Marine Parade GRC, comprising the Chai Chee HDB estates and the Siglap private estates.
High population growth in Potong Pasir SMC due to the new Bidadari developments meant the EBRC moved districts from the single-seat ward to Marine Parade GRC.
MacPherson SMC and an adjacent district from Mountbatten SMC, were also absorbed into Marine Parade GRC.
“Even with the Tengah estates being absorbed into Chua Chu Kang GRC, the remaining Hong Kah North SMC, comprising Bukit Batok West estates, is still too big and growing,” said the EBRC.
The remaining districts of Hong Kah North SMC, together with adjacent ones in Bukit Batok and Yuhua SMCs, hence merged with Jurong GRC to form a new Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC.
To maintain the new constituency as a five-member team, some areas were carved out to form a new Jurong Central SMC.
Some estates in Jurong West and Taman Jurong were also moved to the adjacent West Coast GRC, with the new bloc renamed as West Coast-Jurong West GRC.
To maintain the number of MPs there, the eastern-most district of the current West Coast GRC, namely estates in Harbourfront and Sentosa, were placed under Radin Mas SMC.
Areas in the Dover and Telok Blangah estates were also absorbed into the adjacent Tanjong Pagar GRC. A new Queenstown SMC was then created from Tanjong Pagar GRC in order to maintain its five-member quota.
REALIGNMENT, DOUBLE-BARREL NAMES
Some other boundaries were also altered to align with key geographical features, said the EBRC.
“In particular, the HDB developments under construction at Rail Green I @ CCK and Rail Green II @ CCK straddle the current electoral boundary between Chua Chu Kang and Holland-Bukit Timah GRCs. The boundary was aligned to the former railway track which no longer exists,” it explained.
The boundary was hence realigned along Woodlands Road instead, effectively assigning these new housing estates to Chua Chu Kang GRC.
Polling districts in Tampines West, located in the east of Bedok Reservoir and currently under Aljunied GRC, were also shifted to Tampines GRC.
Holland-Bukit Timah GRC has also absorbed a portion of Upper Bukit Timah Road, currently under Jurong GRC.
“The committee recommended maintaining status quo for Bishan-Toa Payoh, Jalan Besar, Marsiling-Yew Tee, Nee Soon, Sengkang GRCs and Bukit Panjang, Hougang, Marymount and Pioneer SMCs,” the EBRC said of the wards left untouched from 2020.
Double-barrelled names have also been adopted to “better reflect the identities of the geographical areas in the GRCs”, added the EBRC.
More at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-ebrc-grc-smc-general-election-boundary-changes-4992551
Received these supposed dates via a Whatsapp group chat earlier today, hmmm
CSJ: "Make sure you send a clear, no-nonsense message to the PAP that our country cannot afford to continue with this insanity of raising the costs of living and making our lives so stressful."
"Please vote for us so that we can continue to jiak liao bee, okay?"
The ground ain't just against, it has soured completely against them.
Singaporeans are a gian png lot, just give out more Labubu dolls, ice cream, coffee and most importantly, CDC vouchers, and all will be swell again
For the sake of our future generations please VTO, arigato 🙏
That useless ex-paper admiral cum failed transport minister should really learn to shut his freaking trap. TUCK YEW Mr Lui!!!!!
Regardless, PAP will still sweep the polls because majority of Sinkies are daft, and there is no cure for daftness.
All is definitely not well with the People's Adultery Party