JBJ forms new party to reform Singapore - 2

Veteran opposition politician J.B. Jeyaretnam is forming a new political party to reform Singapore on issues he highlighted in an hour long press conference.

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[mdsubahan]

Its Very Simple reason. He is a FIGHTER not a quitter. After all what have happen, he have not given up yet.

[jayni49]

You Mr JBJ is our Ghandhi-our Ghandhi of Singapore!

You have put many of us to shame as we hide our heads in the sand IN FEAR. What illness has befallen upon us Singaporeans? Even the TREES are rising and raising their protest...AND THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE.

[FIIRE]

salute

[thisISdumb1989]

sorry

* i'm NOT gg all out to condemn the PAP.

[thisISdumb1989]

it's NOT EVEN considered a flawed democracy unlike our neighbour, Malaysia. i'm gg all out to condemn the pap. in fact i think they have done an excellent job in terms of making this country first world in everything but politics. seems like our freedom is the price of peace. but so many countries in scandinavia have peace together with freedom and civil rights. sg shld aspire for that kind of political and social state in the future. i hope this will be attained sooner rather than later,

[thisISdumb1989]

Of course tt's what you'll be taught. EVERYTHING in singapore is under the PAP including nus. i am fass student in nus and have done modules on sg politics. this country needs civil liberties, freedom of speech and freedom of press. if you didnt realise the straitstimes is under sph which is under temasek holdings whihc is under the govt that is the PAP. sg was ranked 82 in democracy rankings.

[coldcarlsberg]

The reason he is there to set up the Reform party is because we don't need a Totalitarian State..we need different voices in the parliament..no Goverment is perfect, however the people needed to be heard.

[gabyee1987]

Actually the healthcare costs (as proportion of GDP) have been going DOWN and singaporeans are definitely getting better and better healthcare. I am not being biased here just because i am a medical student as you might probably think and if you happen to see this, i will be happy to discuss these issues with you.

[gabyee1987]

Heatlhcare costs are generally rising, but actually the government has being doing a GOOD JOB in keeping its PROPORTION of healthcare spending down (something like 3.3% of GDP in 2000 im not too sure of the exact. But the range the WHO recommends is anywhere between 1-6% of GDP)

[gabyee1987]

You mentioned the HEALTHCARE COSTS. As a 2nd year medical student myself at NUS, and having read up and being lectured formally on healthcare issues, i must say that the rising healthcare costs is NOT ENTIRELY a result of the government's mismanagement/tyranny

[gabyee1987]

Mr JBJ, first of all i would like to point out that it would be great to have some opposition voices in parliament that actually POINT OUT glaring errors in our system. Whilst i cannot agree with all (in fact most of) the issues you have raised, id just like to point out a couple of things.

[kaira8283]

hey, dun tok cock lah