2006 and Onward, What Now?

The volunteers and SDP members had a post-election dinner and a debrief today, it has been a long 2 weeks of campaigning, especially with all the troubles that have been created for the party way before the hustings began, i believe quite a number of viewers to this blog would ask me a common question, why the SDP?

We managed to garner 24% of the vote in Sembawang, i won't want to make excuses but at the end of the day, i would invite any of you, to step into our shoes and see for yourselves the sheer height of the troubles that we have to undergo, yet alone ensure that our message gets out to the voters.

I mean with the lawsuits hitting the party's CEC, the backing out of the printer that publishes the election material, and the last minute refusal of the contractors to help us at our rallies, is just some many of the problems we had faced.

Its saddening to know that when i talk to my friends and tell them that i'm helping the SDP, it is usually greeted with immediate distaste, no thanks to the local media at all for their biased views which effectively brainwashed much of the populace to their liking.

I can say the experience i had seen this past few weeks, is really something that even the ruling party or the other opposition parties might have the pleasure of not having, we were the only party that is demanding for reform in the entire political system here in Singapore, nothing else, a level playing ground where the candidates mettle can be vetted by the electorate, and not through the dirty ways of buying the vote.

I just pray and hope that in the coming years, Singaporeans would wake up and see what is really wrong in this country before its too late.