Ian On The Red Dot

I’ve had the great fortune of having two lunch-times made slightly more interesting with the appearance of Dr Chee and his team selling their party’s newspaper. The first time it happened, I was queuing to buy fish-soup at Amoy Street Hawker Center. The second time happened when I was having lunch with my colleagues at a hawker center behind our office.

It was interesting to see the different responses of the people at the hawker centers.

At Amoy Street Hawker Center, few people bought the newspaper. Some were even turned away by the price. Think about it. People who work in the heart of the city’s financial district turned away by price.

At the heartland food center, a significantly larger number of people bought the party’s newspaper. The people at the heartland food center were less likely to turn their heads away, less ashamed to look at our society’s number 1 pariah.

It would be too simple and most likely erroneous to draw sweeping and probably baseless conclusions from these two anecdotes. One of them could be that the rich (or those who have better paying jobs) love the PAP more because they are the ones who benefit the most from PAP’s policies.

Whatever it is, take what you will from these anecdotes.