The mood is sombre.... dark in this GRC...
Singaporeans are fed-up with the rising prices. Noodle at the
neighbour-hood coffee shop cost 50 cents more a bowl now... Hawkers
cannot afford the high rents ($5,000 to 7500 a month) have to stop
selling...leaving most the stalls in the coffee shop empty. Sitting
in the coffee shop is like attending a wake.
The retired old folks who gather here daily after their morning walk
around the reservoir....are not smiling anymore. Their favourite
minister, George Yeo is now a taboo subject... 7 of the 9 old folks
would get angry whenever his name is mentioned...fuck words in Hokkien
would be heard. These old folks had been behind PAP winning in past
elections.
Why the change ?
PAP has let them down...BADLY. Their retirement fund has been eaten up
by the rising cost...rising food cost,(meat, veg, fish, and hawker
meals)... cost of electricity and water,... higher transport
cost...many have lost their temporary jobs to Bangladeshi.... They
asked Minister Yeo for help...he promised to do something. After
months of waiting...nothing was done...instead the prices gone even
higher....two who have to work at 70 years old lost their table
cleaning jobs to foreigners!!! The old folks are worried about how to
live...now their money can buy less and less. When their retirement
are exhausted, they may be forced to go before their time.
No body talk about the election goodies and upgrading anymore..instead
they curse PAP for letting them down...To them PAP is no longer a good
government.
These old folks who have voted for PAP all their lives....They will
certainly not support PAP anymore.
This scene is repeated in many the coffee shops around the Aljunied
GRC.
If the election is held next month, PAP will surely lose thousands
more votes. The slim majority PAP won in the 2006 election will be
gone. If worker's party could field a strong team including Chan Show
Moa...We will see a new Foreign minister.
The wind of change is becoming stronger...and stronger...in Aljunied
GRC.
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