CE Lesson: (1) The Member of Parliament shall...

What we did this afternoon....

1. Seated according to our GRC (for most of us), we discuss what we think the member of parliament could do for his/her people in the GRC/SMC. We also listed down some qualities that we would look for for the MP.

2. We then appointed one member to represent our "party", as the candidate for the "S2-08 GRC". Each was given about 2 minutes to describe what the party will do for the residents if it gets elected.

While the candidates presented their speech, the rest of the 'voters' pen down the key points that each party highlighted... that helps them to decide who will make a good MP to run the GRC.

13 comments:

  1. 1. Jing Heng from the SLUMBER PARTY promises to gives us FREE PILLOWS, and PILLOW FIGHTS EVERY FRIDAY.

    2. Eunice from BIRTHDAY PARTY promises to be a responsible voice for the people in the parliament. The constituency will be cleaner, land transport efficiency will increase. There will be upgrading of houses, more subsidary for poor families, sacrifice salaries of MPs, and more understanding to the public.

    3. Zhang Bo from PEOPLE'S PARTY promises to have more jobs, hawker centres, more efficiency in public transport, more aid from govt, aid for lower income for poor families. Buying of land is allowed, NO GST, more retirement, more say for the people.

    4. Kok Yin from SINGAPORE ACTION PARTY promises to improve on transportation, more sincere during meet the people sessions, make the streets safer by increasing patrol and police stations. They have to be friendly, and do not make empty promises. They will owe an explanation to the citizens for every decisions made.

    5. Imran from EAST RESIDENTIAL PARTY promises to have safer roads, economical promises, more efficient in public transport, more shelters, and improve the living conditions and make houses cheaper. They will have more town planning like cinemas, shopping centres, more operating hours and more jobs.

    6. Aaron from NEW AND SUPER PARTY promises to have 4g homes, more parks, more homes subsidize first time buying fees, and a better and cheaper standard of living. They also will have cheaper healthcare.

    7. Tse Tzang from MEASURES PARTY promises to have more MRT to decrease chances of road accidents, more care on elderly, take their own salaries to build facilities for children, increase health paying jobs, increasing the awareness of taking care of elderly, increase the surroundings of housing estate.

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  2. Christian Lim from the Slumber Party promises us to give us free pillows and have pillow fight ever friday night

    Eunice from Birthday Party promises us to be responsible and they would be very clean, public transport fast and efficient and working lift. They would be more approachable and they would be asking more of our opinions. They would also help the poor more using own money. And lastly, upgrading!

    MP(never introduce himself) of people's party promises more jobs, hawker centres, better transportation, more contributions from the government, help poor people even more , no GST, no taxes and even more retirement fund! More say for the people. Very calculative about land they own.

    Kok Yin from Singapore action party. Improve transportation, very sincere about MP meets as they think people are very important, will look into security especially at night.

    Imran from the East residential party. Safer roads, wont pay and pay and pay until bankrupt. More shelters, more efficient transport, cheaper housing. Better town planning for recreational purposes. Longer work hours and less GST

    Aaron Sng from New and Super party. Wants a green home, emphasize on going green, more parks. He can give cheaper standards of living as they would provide cheap healthcare and cheap food. They also want to take politics to a whole new level

    Tse Tzang from Measures Party. He questions if the other party would be able to keep their promises. He say that what they say are conflicting themselves. They would have higher paying jobs... They would build better houses and help the poor more.

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  3. (Slumber Party) The Member of Parliament shall provide free pillows to the people and pillow fights every friday.

    (Birthday Party) The Member of Parliament shall provide a responsible voice in the parliament, cleanliness in neighborhood, better lifts, listen more to people, help lower income family and improve our housing.

    (People's Party) The Member of Parliament shall provide more jobs, more hawker centers, improve transportation system, help aid lower income family, need to lend land from government, no GST, more support for elderly.

    (Singapore Action Party) The Member of Parliament shall provide better transportation, more sincerity, safer streets, friendly, truthful, more explanations on what they do.

    (East Residential Party) The Member of Parliament shall promise we need to pay less money, better transportation system, better and more shelters, cheaper housing, more malls, shops have longer operating hours and less GST.

    (NSP) The Member of Parliament shall provide Free Homes, more parks, better standards of living.

    (Measures Party) The Member of Parliament shall provide better MRT, take care of elderly, fitness corners, higher end jobs, improve the environment of the housings.

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  4. 1) Christian's slumber party will provide pillows for pillow fights every friday.
    2)Eunice's birthday party will make more opinion based judgements, lift fully functioning and better transport efficiency.
    3)Zhang Bo's party , more jobs, more hawkers centers and sid the poor and limit purchase.
    4)Singapore Action Party's will provide more efficient public transport and more more safety from crime, MP's more friendly to people. We should be friendly and fair to the citizens to let the citizens understand their opinions.
    5) Each residential Party, no pay and pay, or pay until bankrupt. Provide shelters in the MRT and improve the living conditions to make the houses cheaper. More shoppings center and clinics.
    6) New and super party will build more parks to go greener. Don't need to pay so much and makes things go greener. No need to pay so much for school fees. All prices go down.

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  6. (Slumber Party) The member of Parliament shall
    - give us free pillows for a pillow fight every Friday

    (Birthday Party) The member of Parliament shall
    - increase the efficiency of transportation
    - allow the public to have a voice in Parliament
    - Upgrade our housing estates
    - Support elderly

    (People's party) The member of Parliament shall
    - have more jobs
    - have more facilities
    - help people to overcome their financial problems;have no GST

    (Singapore action party) The member of Parliament shall
    - have improved transportation
    - understand the people's needs
    - be friendly and explain to the citizens about their actions

    (East Residential Party) The member of Parliament shall
    - have safer roads; more shelters along roads
    - help people who have financial problems
    - have cheaper houses

    (NSP) The member of Parliament shall
    - have better standard of living and have a green home
    - take politics to a whole new level

    (Measure's party) The member of Parliament shall
    - Improve MRT systems
    - take care of the elderly by building more exercise centers
    - Have high salaries and help people who have financial problems.

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  7. 1) Christian's party will provide pillows every friday for pillow fights

    2) Eunice's party will keep the place clean, upgrade housings, opinion based judgement.

    3) Zhang Bo's party will provide more jobs, cleaner, more hawker centers, improved transport, aid people with low income, no GST, limited land purchases, more say.

    4) Singapore Action's Party will provide more efficient public transport and more safety from crimes, MPs are friendly to the people. We should be friendly and fair to the citizens to let the citizens understand their opinion.

    5) Each Residential Party will not let us PAP but instead ERP. Provide shelters in the MRt and improve the living conditions to make the houses cheaper. More shoppings centers and clinics.

    6) New And Super Party will build more parks to go greener. Don't need to pay so much and makes things go greener. No need to pay so much for school fees. All prices go down for food, healthcare, standard of living. They want to take politics to a whole new level.

    7) Measures Party will improve the safety of road and MRT. They will improve the MRT so that les cars will be used. They will take care of the elderly and build fitness centers of children. Increase the awareness of taking care of the elderly. Help families with lower income get more money and better jobs.

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  8. I have some questions....

    (1) Who owns the land? How do we manage the selling/ renting of land that one of the candidates have promised?

    (2) Creating more jobs? What jobs are we creating? Will these jobs be taken up by locals or foreign "talents"/ "workers"?

    (3) Some promised lower or even no GST! What's the impact of reducing or removing the GST?

    (4) When more houses are built, does that mean that the prices will become lower? What could be the different scenarios?

    For your consideration...

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  9. -Christian from Slumber party promises the residents that they will get free pillows and pillow fights, and they will give people free money.

    -Eunice from Birthday Party promises the residents of S2-08 that they will be a responsible voice in the parliament, and they will ensure the cleanliness and the lift upgrades, public transport and concerned with our problems. They will listen to our opinions, which will affect their decisions. They will be using their salary to help the poor people.

    -Zhang Bo from People's Party promises the residents that there will be more jobs, more cleaners, more hawker centers, transport of the Singapore would be improved, people with low-income would have more aid. They will allow people to buy a certain amount of land, if more land, they would have to rent and pay every month. But, there will be no GST, and no taxes. There will be more retirement funds, therefore, when they get old, government will help.

    -Kok Yin from Singapore Action Party promises the residents that improve on transportation, and efficiency of the transportation. Will be sincere, believe that reaching out to citizens is important. Recruit more police and patrols in the midnights. Would be friendly and does not make empty promises. Will explain to citizens what they do and why.

    -Imran from ERP - East Residential Party. They make sure you wont pay and pay, and there will be safer roads, to prevent accidents at the road from happening. Efficient MRTS and more shelters are available. Cheaper houses, and everyone will not have to pay so much, therefore, more people will come to SG. Better town planning, more cinemas, shopping centres. Longer work hours. Lesser GST.

    -Aaron, from New and Super Party.They promises to have green home, gracious and good home,which is super. More parks, to make it greener, build more homes, so that people do not have to pay much. A better standard which is also cheap. Will provide cheap healthcare, and cheaper standard of living. They want to take politics to a whole new level.

    -Tse Tzang from Measures Party. They promise that they will only focus on MRT, as it was created to save energy, so that lesser people will choose to ride cars. Focus on the elderlys when they do not have childrens. They will take the salaries to build fitness corners for elderlys and children. They will increase high paying jobs for all the Singaporeans. They will increase the awareness of taking care of the elderlys. They will upgrade the staff around the houses, so that others will realize that it is better. For lower income people, they will have more help.

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  10. 1) Christian's slumber party : Will provide us more pillow so we can save the money to buy pillows :D

    2) Eunice from Birthday Party promises more meet the people session to know more about the residents' needs in the environment.

    3) Zhang Bo from People's Party promises to have lower taxes and more jobs for people.

    4) Kok Yin Singapore Action Party, better transportation for the people, and recruit more police to patrol more around the area.

    5) Imran East Residential party, More efficient transports, won't let us pay so much and better town planning.

    6) Aaron from New and Super Party, more spacious homes, won't have to pay too much and have a better level of living.

    7) Tse Tzang from Measures Party, focus more about the elderly in the area, and upgrade the facilities.

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  11. Christian Lim (Tan Jing Heng) from "Slumber Party" promises to give us free pillow, free pillow fights every Friday night, free money. Different as he is short.

    Eunice from "Birthday Party" promises to responsible voice in parliament, clean environment, lifts fully operational, efficiency of public transport will be improved, get to know citizens, less dictatorship and more opinion based, help for low income families using salaries of MPs to help, upgrade housing.

    Zhang Bo from "People's Party" promises to more jobs for people, more hawker centres, transport improved, more aid from government, allows people to buy/rent land from Singapore, no GST, lower taxes, more retirement funds, more say for people.

    Ng Kok Yin from "Singapore Action Party" feels that for her GRC, she will improve on transport and make it shorter and faster, she will be sincere as she thinks understanding needs is important, more patrols for police. Qualities: True to word. Difference: Explain why they make decisions. Better understand positions.

    Imran from "East Residential Party" promises not to pay and pay, less accidents on roads, more efficiency of public transport, more shelters in public in case of wet weather, cheaper housing to increase population, more buildings like shopping centers and clinics, less GST.

    Aaron from "New and Super Party" promises a 4D, greener, gracious home. Build more parks more greenery, more homes, subsidies of 30% of housing prices. Cheaper standard of living. Provide cheap healthcare and cheaper standard of living.

    Tse Tzang from "Measure Party". Promises of improvement of MRTs. Taking care of elderly. Use salary to build fitness corners and children facilities. High paying jobs for Singaporeans. Increasing awareness of taking care of elderly. Increase of staff for maintenance of housing. Trying to get a better job for lower income families.

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  12. 1. Jing Heng's Slumber Party will provide free pillows and pillow fights every Friday.

    2. Eunice's Birthday Party will be a responsible voice of everyone and it will be very clean and lifts will be operational and public transport will be more efficient and they will be easier to talk to about our own opinions.

    3. Zhang Bo's People's Party will have more jobs and more hawker centers, the transport will be improved. Low-income families will have more aid. Low GST & more retirement funds.

    4. Kok Yin's Singapore Action Party will improve transportation and be more sincere in reaching out to the citizens. The streets will be safer.

    5. Imran's East Residential Party will make sure roads are safer and will make sure we don't keep paying and there will be more shelters and improve living conditions. There will be better town planning.

    6. Aaron's New and Super Party will be greener and build more parks. And there will be electronic exams which will lead to a better standard of living and cheaper healthcare and living.

    7. Tse Tzang's Measures Party will increase the awareness of taking care of the elderly and upgrade the areas around the houses. Low-income families will be helped to get better jobs.

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  13. (SP) The Member of Parliament shall provide us with free pillows and pillow fights every friday.

    (BP) The Member of Parliament shall be a responsible voice in parliament, clean, finish lifts upgrading, listen to opinions, help lower income family more, upgrade our housings.

    (PP) The Member of Parliament shall promise more jobs, hawker centre, improve the transport, more aid to lower income families from the government, no GST, support the elderly.

    (SAP) The Member of Parliament shall improve transportation, sincere, safer streets, friendly and don't make false promises MP's, gives reason for their actions.

    (ERP) The Member of Parliament shall promise safer roads, improve MRT's, Shelters, Houses cheaper, town planning, shops have longer operating hours, less GST.

    (NSP) The Member of Parliament shall Free homes, build more parks, homes, eco-parks in schools, better standard of living, take politics to a whole new level.

    (MP) The Member of Parliament shall improve MRT's, eco-friendly, support the elderly, increase the number of high-paying jobs, improve the looks of housing.

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