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I must admit something: yes, the new EBRC boundaries were the reason why WP left Marine Parade post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 11, 2025

I must admit something: yes, the new EBRC boundaries were the reason why WP left Marine Parade

Boundaries matter, though not in the way you're being told.

The GE battle in Tampines was so important that it is going to influence future elections post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 10, 2025

The GE battle in Tampines was so important that it is going to influence future elections

General Election 2025
Politics
Workers’ Party
People’s Action Party
PAP’s 4G leadership transition started poorly but ended better than any before it post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 9, 2025

PAP’s 4G leadership transition started poorly but ended better than any before it

General Election 2025
People’s Action Party
Politics
The real reason opposition parties hate the EBRC and shifting boundaries: it forces them to work post image
By Michael Petraeus
May 7, 2025

The real reason opposition parties hate the EBRC and shifting boundaries: it forces them to work

General Election 2025
Singapore Opposition
Workers’ Party has just managed to offend everyone post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 28, 2022

Workers’ Party has just managed to offend everyone

Sometimes I really hate politics. But even when that happens it may still be very entertaining. It seems that 377A has posed some serious challenges for the Workers Party and how they handled it backfired in the most hilarious way. They appear to be trying to reconcile their earlier positions,

Workers’ Party Singapore Opposition Politics Society
Differences between AIM and AHTC cases explained post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 11, 2022

Differences between AIM and AHTC cases explained

After my posts about the AHTC some angry folks kept coming here and waving their fists - "what about AIM case with PAP!?". And while it is rather annoying to have to keep explaining things that were already explained once I have to say it's also

Workers’ Party People’s Action Party Politics
There’s one alternative to GST hike that nobody is talking about post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 9, 2022

There’s one alternative to GST hike that nobody is talking about

So far, the only alternatives to the impending GST hike in Singapore are based on taking money from somewhere else. But what if there was one that didn't require any new taxes or draining the reserves? In fact, what I'm about to point to is one

Economy National Budget Immigration
Why aren’t specific HDB subsidy and development cost figures released? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 8, 2022

Why aren’t specific HDB subsidy and development cost figures released?

Why aren't specific HDB subsidy and development cost figures released? I think PAP sometimes has a problem in communications - though in this case it might be the fault of the parliamentary formula of asking questions and providing answers on the spot. I agree that the response given

Housing
Is there any decency left in the Workers’ Party? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 7, 2022

Is there any decency left in the Workers’ Party?

My blood really boiled yesterday. I have to say that I used to think that Workers' Party was a group of maybe not very competent but at least fairly decent people, infected perhaps by a few too many left-wing ideas (hey, nobody is perfect, right?). But I am increasingly

Workers’ Party Singapore Opposition Politics
Why British Opium Wars are relevant to Singapore post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 5, 2022

Why British Opium Wars are relevant to Singapore

Some people in Singapore have tried to argue, in the recent spat between MHA and Richard Branson over drug policy, that bringing up British mid-19th century Opium Wars in China is somehow not relevant to Singapore and out of place in the exchange. I beg to differ. It may seem

Society Law & Order History
Drug spat with Richard Branson: activists are not stakeholders, the society is post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 1, 2022

Drug spat with Richard Branson: activists are not stakeholders, the society is

One thing the woke left has always excelled at is its ability to inflate its importance with meaningless words. All the "activists", "NGOs", "advocates", "campaigners" are really just euphemisms for "parasites". Because that's what they are, isn'

Society Law & Order
Branson chickens out of drug policy debate post image
By Michael Petraeus
Nov 1, 2022

Branson chickens out of drug policy debate

So, predictably, Richard Branson has chickened out from public debate on drug policy with K Shanmugam Sc but the way he did that reveal just what a nauseatingly disgusting person he is (much like all hippie do-gooders, though). In a statement posted on his blog on Monday and addressed to

Society Law & Order
Are HDB apartments really more expensive than in the past? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Oct 25, 2022

Are HDB apartments really more expensive than in the past?

So many people have been lamenting just oh how much HDB apartments cost these days, and how their parents were able to pay theirs off in like 4 years but their children now take a mortgage for 25 years... and so on, that I've decided to do what

Housing
PAP and WP agree: more money is needed. Their financing ideas, however, are very different post image
By Michael Petraeus
Oct 22, 2022

PAP and WP agree: more money is needed. Their financing ideas, however, are very different

I think it's worth reminding all of those complaining about the bump in GST that, actually, both PAP and WP agree that more money is needed. It's not like the government is somehow raiding the pockets of millions of Singaporeans, while the opposition is up in

Politics National Budget
How can we make sure the GST hike is absolutely necessary? post image
By Michael Petraeus
Oct 21, 2022

How can we make sure the GST hike is absolutely necessary?

So, the amendment of the GST bill is proceeding through the parliament, meaning the hike is just around the corner. And, I know, we've been through this topic many times already. We've heard it all from politicians (both PAP and opposition) arguing for and against the

Politics Economy National Budget
Mahathir proves that old dictators are obsessed about land post image
By Michael Petraeus
Oct 20, 2022

Mahathir proves that old dictators are obsessed about land

How to spot if a politician is an insecure, ignorant paranoiac mentally stuck in the 18th century? He's obsessed about land. I'm not really sure what Mahathir wanted to accomplish with his comments, given that most Malaysians would very much like to see their country become

International Affairs Malaysia
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