Aliran.com, 8 Aug 2011
How did the campaign unfold?
* Perennial issues: high cost of living; widening wage gap; high ministerial salaries; liberal immigration policies
* Issues since 2006: raising GST from 5% to 7% months after 2006 GE; YOG expenditure; Mas Selamat escape; downtown floods
* Politicking began with Tin Pei Ling – Tin came to personify the unfairness of the GRC system
* Dr Chia Shi-Lu replaces PAP candidate Steve Tan in Tanjong Pagar GRC
Vivian Balakrishnan’s disclosure of Vincent Wijeysingha’s “gay agenda” video
* Goh Chok Tong: series of puzzling remarks – SDP candidate Tan Jee Seng not good enough to become Perm Sec; implied WKS was less competent than George Yeo; called NSP “No Substance Party” after calling for “clean and fair fight”; admitted he had no feel for the youth.
* Lee Kuan Yew: voters of Aljunied would have 5 years to repent if they voted WP; remarks on Malays not integrating unsettled Malay voters
* PM Lee Hsien Loong’s public apology for government’s mistakes – Boat Quay lunch rally, 3 May
* George Yeo’s appeal to voters for chance to reform PAP on Youtube, 6 May
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