Singapore Election 2015

Its Singapore 2015 election day and I now await the results.

My daughter posted on her facebook what she thinks are the 12 broad categories of Singapore voters. I summarise it here instead of copying her post because it is rather flowery and may be too long and difficult to read especially for older generation not knowing the younger peoples' jargon:


 Opposition Party Supporters

• 1.       They just need someone to champion their cause- (single mum, social mobility, retirement adequacy, healthcare, censorship etc) and  to table their issue in parliament
• 2.       People who believe diversity is necessary to build institutional resilience and considered policy making. They do not believe the elite governance of the last 50 years is tenable in the long run. Believe in the need of a long tern hedge and hence to give the opposition training wheels.
• 3.       Teochew diehards
• 4.       Angry people who rant and just want to voice their frustrations and point fingers at government
• 5.       Swing voters who succumb to media either repulsed by PAP brainwash or touched by eloquence of opposition candidates
• 6.       People who are well connected with a treasure trove of insider news about behind-the scene party struggles and the less known side of the PAP framework

Incumbent Supporters

• 7.       People who believe in Protecting the “SG unicorn” seeing no better comparable form of government
• 8.       Present or Ex civil servants or employees of stat boards/TLCs who understand the difficulty in policy making. They associate civil service with ruling party
• 9.       People who think “It isn’t  perfect but it is not bad”. Don’t fix it if it is not broken. Their deepest anxiety is incompetency creeping into the government whilst group 2’s  deepest anxiety is being stuck with one choice.
• 10.   The forever grateful who call non supporters as ingrates
• 11.   Swing voters won over by rebuttals of PM and stardust of Tharman
• 12.   Nerds that walk the talk, familiar with the manifesto, follow policy changes and their rationale, volunteer at RCs; and from their carefully weighed assessment the ruling party is the  party to bring us into the future.