It is just past 3am Singapore time, and this will be a short posting before I go to bed.
GE 2011 is over, and the result is 81-6, with all six incoming opposition MPs coming from the Workers' Party. WP went for broke and captured a GRC (Aljunied) while retaining its SMC (Hougang). But Chiam See Tong's SMC stronghold (Potong Pasir) has gone to the PAP.
So, in a perverse sense, the opposition and the PAP had an "exchange" -- a GRC (with five seats) for an SMC (a single-member constituency). WP's Low Thai Khiang has proven himself to be a political strategist par excellence. The future is for him and his WP to consolidate -- or to squander. It is five years to 2016.
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