He wants to push for PAP projects. Is Chee Soon Juan relevant?

Chee Soon Juan said that if elected he would push for all of David Ong's proposals to be implemented.

Let's try a little logical reasoning here.

- CSJ has been unemployed for many, many years.
- He has no work experience whatsoever to speak of.
- His only experience is in writing books about himself and democracy, and talking.

He wants to take over the PAP projects from Jurong-Clementi Town Council.

Think about this.
Between an unemployed man with no work experience at all, and Jurong-Clementi Town Council with their track record having already implemented 5 NRP in Bukit Batok, who will you trust to carry to completion David Ong's proposals?

Jurong-Clementi Town Council of course.

Would you remove a competent, proven team and give their projects to an inexperienced team that is confused over money and the projects?

Chee has just made himself irrelevant and redundant. 

He really only wants to go to Parliament to talk about democracy and Bukit Batok represents just an opportunity to him. 



One cannot help but recall his proposal to Workers' Party during the Punggol East by-election in 2013 when he suggested a partnership with WP where WP would run the town council while he made speeches in parliament. Haha

Chee Soon Juan declared that if elected, he would be a full-time MP.

Of course he's got to be a full-time MP if he is elected when you consider that he is currently unemployed. He can't possibly go from unemployed to part-time MP, can he? It just doesn't sound good or right.

"Every morning, when Mr Murali wakes up, his first destination will be his office. When I wake up every morning, my first destination is Bukit Batok. That’s the difference," so said Chee Soon Juan.

And THAT, to Chee Soon Juan, is considered an advantage he has over Murali. Haha

And he completely forgets that our Ministers, Ministers of State, MPs who are also Parliamentary Secretaries all have a full-time job with heavy responsibilities at various ministries and are at the same time serving their residents and managing their estates well.

Since when is the quality of a person determined (solely) by his first destination of the day?

The measure of a good MP is not whether he is full-time or not.

The measure of a good MP is his integrity, ability, competency, dedication and time management, how sincere he is in serving people, how well he listen to his residents, how keen he is in discerning their needs and how creative and resourceful he is in rendering help, in mobilising volunteers and the community to come together to work for a good cause and more.

Character is permanent. It's difficult not to lie when caught unprepared in a difficult situation

When caught in a difficult situation and having to give an answer STRAIGHTAWAY with no time to think of the best answer, Chee's first instinct is to lie.

SDP had prematurely put up their banners before nomination was announced thus violating the rules of election, and had to take them down.

Instead of admitting that a mistake was committed, Chee Soon Juan gave the lame excuse that he was 'just trying it out'.

That's just unbelievable! And re-LIAR-able as well

Why does Chee Soon Juan wants to see URA and HDB blueprint for Bukit Batok?

Chee Soon Juan starts his campaign with a demand - a demand for a progress report for Bukit Batok from PAP.

This man promised the residents of Bukit Batok that he would make Bukit Batok the envy of Singapore. But he has yet to show a single blueprint of his own plans that will make Bukit Batok the envy of Singapore.

Instead he has demanded for a progress report on Bukit Batok from PAP and to see all the URA and HDB blueprints for Bukit Batok. Haha

Seriously, all he needs to do for a progress report of Bukit Batok is to walk around Bukit Batok. Hasn't he been walking around Bukit Batok? What did he see on his walkabout?

Did he see opportunity for himself? Did he notice any needs that need to be addressed? Or any amenities lacking that he would want to put into a blueprint?

And why does he want to see all the blueprints from URA and HDB? Is it because he has no idea of his own how to make Bukit Batok the envy of Singapore?

Paul Tambyah confuses URA plans with NRP plans

Paul Tambyah of SDP is confusing URA master plans with NRP (neighbourhood renewal programme).

OF COURSE URA master plans proceeds regardless of who is in charge of where. City planners do not plan and optimize the use of land scare Singapore by checking the boundaries of constituencies (not forgetting that boundaries can change also).

NRP, on the other hand, are unique proposals of a town council. Such proposals are the result of feedback gathered from residents by the MP and his team of grassroots members and volunteers.

And NRP are implemented by the town council. This means to say whoever is the MP takes charge of their implementation.

Conversely speaking, whoever is not the MP does not have any right to implement any NRP. This is the reason why Murali said he needed the mandate from the residents of Bukit Batok to carry on his plans.

Given the nature of NRP and how it works, it is unethical for a leader of SDP and an eminent doctor to mislead voters by suggesting that PAP will withhold improvements from Bukit Batok if Murali is not elected.

This has absolutely nothing to do with withholding improvements. It's about who is the elected MP because the MP is in charge of improvements.

Is SDP willing to do the hard work and walk the ground for many months like PAP and gather feedback from residents so that they can make meaningful proposals that will improve the life of residents in Bukit Batok?

PAP has revealed their plans. Where are SDP's plans? Where was SDP before the announcement of this by-election? Or is SDP here in Bukit Batok only because there is a by-election?

Lastly, SDP should not use 'lack of fund' as an excuse for not making proposals because NRP projects are fully funded by the government.

The nature of Neighbourhood Renewal Programme and how it works

Murali revealed his plans for Bukit Batok and said that he needed a mandate to carry on the plans.

Some call it a dangling of carrots. Some call it a punitive approach.

A punitive approach it is not. It is just the way things work.

Or to quote Pritam Singh, "that's the nature of NRP and how it works."

So then, what is the nature of NRP and how it works?

NRP projects are proposals unique to each estate. They are the result of feedback gathered from residents. Each town council makes proposals for NRP based on feedback gathered.

NRP projects are IMPLEMENTED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL.

This means the elected MP is the one who will implement NRP projects. 

Conversely speaking, whoever is not elected as MP has no mandate or right to implement any NRP projects.

That was what Murali meamt when he said he needed a mandate to carry out the plans.

There is also no guarantee that a NRP project proposed before an election will carry on as proposed when there is a change of town council because the new town council is free to change the proposal. Hence the mandate needed.

To quote Pritam Singh,
"..... we were free to determine if we wanted to change the proposal of the previous PAP-run Aljunied Town Council with regard to the NRP upgrading plans - that's the nature of the NRP and how it works."

Incidentally, Pritam Singh, in reacting negatively to what Murali said, did not realize that he had answered his own questions.

Just how far will Chee Soon Juan go to try to win a seat in Parliament?

Enough to resort to deception by using a photo taken of himself and Mr Chiam to give the false impression that Mr Chiam endorses him as the candidate for the Bukit Batok by-election.

Chee Soon Juan's Math

 

Let's take a minute to try to understand.

SDP has been proposing cuts in defence budget and steadily increasing that percentage as well.

In 2011, they proposed a 20% cut. In 2015, it became 50% !!

If proposing defence budget cut is not bad enough in the face of increased threats and increased defence spending elsewhere in the region and the world, they also proposed increasing the allowance of full-time National Servicemen to a minimum of $1200.

So on the one hand they propose cuts in defence budget.

On the other hand they propose an increase in defence spending through increased allowance.

Can you do that Math?

For the SDP the mathematics is not important. Being populist is more important.