Block 140, Tampines Ave 2. 3 lanes each way.
View from Block 140. These flags are placed at a very busy intersection. From the vantage point, there is a market across the street.
Behind Block 140, in the parking lot.
Next to Block 140, NEXT TO THE PLAYGROUND!!
1) Simply put, the ruling party just needs to be disqualified.
In a track meet, if you cross the start line before the starter's gun is fired, after (is it 1 or 2?) resets, the contestant is disqualified.
The ruling party has been in this contest just way too many times to plead ignorance. So, there should not be a reset, there should not be any "false start" chances given. They should just be disqualified from contesting in this GRC (and the others where they have done the same).
Just imagine if one of the other opposition parties had done the same... don't you think they would have been disqualified??
2) Used to be the most important reason but because of (1), fell to second spot.
MBT
Yes, MBT, what have you done for me lately? Besides talking crap about why HDB prices are the way they are?
Honestly, to see the way you are working, Lim Kim San might be turning in his grave.
MBT, do you know that LKS worked 3 years for free? ABSOLUTELY NO PAY when he first started the then version of HDB. Now, that's what I call GOVERNMENT SERVICE.
MBT, do you know that HDB was developed as a GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED housing project? When did it become a MARKET SUBSIDIZED housing project? Could it be when you and the rest of the ruling party cronies decided they needed to pad their incomes???
Since you want to play the game that HDB is now "privatized". Then let's play this game.
- 85% of Singaporeans "buy" their HDB flats on land that are ONLY leased to them for 99 years and yet have to pay property tax to the government. That's the Uniquely Singapore way. We must be the FIRST and only country in the world to pay taxes on something we lease and not own.
- As a private institution, why then do HDB flats in opposition wards get neglected? Should they really care who the HDB dweller voted for? Does Isetan give discounts to people who vote for the ruling party and the opposition party voters pay full price? Do you need to proof to MacDonald's that you voted for the ruling party to get a value meal?
- Why are upgrading announcements significantly more leading up to General Elections? There are usually 4-5 years between elections, but nothing is done in that time? And why does the ruling party candidate make these announcements? Why doesn't the candidate also come out and say that voters will get a new KFC or a new Gap store if they get voted in. Why doesn't the candidate announce that CDL is building a new condo in their constituency to? Could it be that these REALLY PRIVATELY OWNED companies DO NOT HAVE any links with the ruling party and could not give a rats @ss who gets voted in?
I really do not need to give anymore reasons. MBT IS and the ministry he runs IS one of the main reasons inflation is now at 4-5% annually. HDB is no longer affordable to the average income person. And, if you let him stay, it's another 4-5 years of ruling party rhetoric.
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You said, "We must be the FIRST and only country in the world to pay taxes on something we lease and not own."
Don't be silly. This is a common system around the world. In the UK, there are leaseholds ranging from 30 years to 200 years. That is also the case in Australia, Hong Kong and China. And yes, you have to pay taxes on this. There is nothing unusual about this.
I stay in Tampines and bought my 4 rm in 2005 for 246K, it is now valued at about 450k, so in 5 years the value went up by about 70%, can MBT guarantee that it will continue to go up in value over the next 5 years at the same rate. Or is it because he just simply did not build enough flats and when alot of FT came in they bought up the resale flats and pushed up the value as there was a shortage of such flats.
The govt should build no frills type of housing units like the pre-fab units found in Tampines and sell it at a sub rate to first time buyers and if required, change the 5 year limit to 10 years. All first time buyer want is a cheap and decent roof over their heads that they dont have to pay with a lifetime of debt.
I'm sorry but I saw flags in AMK and Bedok today. Flags ALL OVER the place. Isn't it illegal? Why isn't anyone doing anything about it? Have we really become such a cowboy town that whatever the PAP does is fine. However, if the opposition parties do it, they get punished, sued, made bankrupt??
stop masturbating la..
u vote pap out also no point...
pap still win
so suck it up
B*****ds is what they are.Telling others to have a clean and honest fight but they did otherwise.Putting up flags b4 the nomination day is already against the rules.They should be disqualified.But on the s**k up MATA will close their eyes and ignored.It looks like a dictatorship in the making.Vote the a**hole out for good.
We should go topple down some of these flags and see how they will react.
leasehold belongs to HDB you idiot. We singaporeans who bought the flats are on LEASE, not leasehold. get your facts right. So shouldn't HDB pay the taxes, and not us? stupid pap sucker...
To the first poster. What you said is not true. I am a PR in Australia and no, I don't lease and I don't have to pay tax on what I lease. In fact, if I do lease, I get a deduction through my income tax. So either you are misinformed or you are one of the PAP Internet flamers who are out trying to distort the truth.
the PAPpies kanjiong already, need to plant those flags around the estate while they still have the chance in case they wont get to do so in the future... hahahaha :)
Just vote opposition. Get them into parliament and make sure they stick to what they promise.
Take a PAP flag home as a souvenir of GE 2011.
Anyway, putting up flags way before the Writ of Elections is issued does not mean much. Singaporeans who don't vote PAP will not vote for PAP just because their flags are up before the rest.
So what if the PAP pull all the flats around the town?? My question is what can the opposition do for the town which can earned my vote.. Nothing, they only want us to vote for them but can't promise us anything. I stay in Tampines for 20+ yrs. yet i never really see the opposition party walk around. They only turn up during election time. I dun even know their face. Can anybody give me 1 example that what the opposition have done for the town. Anything...
To last comment: Maybe the opposition can send you back to school to learn some proper English? Or could you possibly one of the FTs (with not so much T) trying to protect your turf?
I don't think you get the picture. The display of flags violates election laws. The "putting of flats" on the other hand... I have no idea what you are talking about.
** sorry, I meant "the pulling of flats". Your sentence makes so little sense, I have problems remembering it and typing it down ""
U know how to take photo don't know how to call the police and have the banners remove meh? Cannot no action talk only. Call the police and see what those PAPPYS can do.
If you all think putting up the flags is illegal, you all always can make a police report. Likewise the opposition party can also put up their flags. I see no points of you guys down here complaining.
Yes, down with the PAP let them lose every seats. Then it would be great fun watching all the opposition trying to form a government. If the opposition do a worse job then PAP, we kick them out too
And yes, kick out all the foreigners who steal our jobs, make our public transport so crowded and jack up the price of HDB which cause the locals got no money to buy.
We make sure, all PR convert to Singaporean, if they refuse we kicked them out too.
Close down the 2 IR which always win our money and cause all type of social problems.
This way, Singapore will be a much peaceful place and that wat we wan to see from the opposition rather then just a alternate voice.
Need but never happened.. So what now???
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