Protest against unfair and anti Singaporean CECA

'Social activist Gilbert Goh organises protest against CECA on 3 Nov

Reflecting on Ramesh Erramalli’s rant against a condominium security guard, social activist Gilbert Goh has organised a protest against the Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement (CEAC) – which permits Indian workers in 127 industries access to Singapore’s labour market – at Hong Lim Park this Sunday (3 Nov) at 4pm.

Earlier, PV Secretary-General and Cambridge-educated lawyer Lim Tean has criticised this clause in the CECA allowing the free movement of labour, saying that another regional FTA – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership – has stalled over other country’s refusal to allow Indian workers access to their labour markets.

In organising the protest, Goh said that it was not right that Singaporeans are “struggl[ing] on the side with low-end jobs such as driving Grab or becom[ing] a security officer” while foreigners with “dubious degree(s)” are able to earn generous salaries in lucrative sectors such as finance and IT.

Lamenting that “our authorities [appear] resigned to an open-door policy when it comes to lucrative sectors”, Goh said that public perception has deteriorated to the point where it seems that “employment prospects are seemingly open only to foreign talents”.

He also noted that jobs in these industries typically pay very well, and as a result would likely cause income inequality thereby resulting in “alot of unhappiness and social unrest” amongst Singaporeans.'

The daft and kiasi and kia chenghu Singaporeans have been living under this anti Singaporean CECA for more than a decade and afraid to air their grievances. While many Singaporeans, including young graduates are facing grave difficulties finding jobs here, some having to write hundreds of application letters without getting a single reply, some having to wait for months and years to a temporary jobs, foreigners are coming in on visit passes and could land a job within days and weeks.

The unfair and one sided CECA has led to hundreds of thousands of fake degree holders from fake universities, from suspicious universities to work here as professionals and earning very high salaries while many Singaporeans especially the PMETs have been booted out, retired prematurely and ended up as Grab drivers and security guards. Many of our young are under employed, unable to get a permanent job and doing part time in MacDonalds or as food deliverers using their electric scooters.

Singaporeans cannot keep quiet and so nothing as these are signs being read as acceptance of their pathetic state of affair, acquiescence, given up, and thus in a way seen as accepting this dreadful and humiliating CECA. No saying anything, no whimpering, not kpkb, is read as everything is ok. So the CECA is ok. Singaporeans you die your business as the half baked, fakes keep coming in to take your jobs, steal your lunches and abuse you as useless people in your very own country, in your very own backyard as if you don't belong here. This place is for anyone and for everyone that is here, no need to be citizens, no need to do NS.

Singaporeans if they continue to behave like sheeps being led to the slaughter without resisting deserve to be slaughtered and their homes and country taken away from them by foreigners.

This is what Simon Lim wrote in TRE.

Often unseen, this has led to broken families, depressed local wages, reduced employment opportunities and underemployment for local PMETs.

Even former DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam commented in 2017 that “it would be mindless to have an open border without any policy framework to govern and constrain the flow of people into your job market. It will not just be wrong politics but wrong economics.”

Indeed, many Singaporean graduates and PMETs are paying heavy prices for the incompetency and greed of their political leadership. If this continues, they need to understand that their future and their livelihood are at stake.

Very clearly, our book-smart PAP generals and scholars are no match at all for those street-smart Indian politicians. Lee Hsien Loong and his cabinet have been totally out-smarted, out-flanked and out-manouveured by the Indian government.

Simon Lim

PS. Had an early race to run, so could not post in the morning.

Some comments posted in TRE

• White Uniform Syndrome:

  October 31, 2019 at 5:29 pm  (Quote)

  I’ll be there to support as usual. Those who care for our country, for our future, make sure you’ll be there too especially opposition parties. Support and unite, singaporeans!
  The last protest at Hong Lim Park with a large crowd was the one about Population White Paper. Make this attendance better than that one. Help to spread the words and jio as many people as we can. Stop being a 懦夫 or weakling who always suffer in silence.

  Rating: +17 (from 17 votes)
• HDB flats depreciate to ZERO:

  October 31, 2019 at 7:12 pm  (Quote)

  A compelling reason for REGIME CHANGE.

  Rating: +8 (from 8 votes)
• PAP signed CECA:

  October 31, 2019 at 8:51 pm  (Quote)

  If foreigners are stealing your lunch, who do you think is helping them? Who is letting them into the country? If you can’t protect your jobs, what makes you think you can protect the country? Local-born citizens, students, graduates, NS/NSR should protest CECA. A low turn-out would signal to the gov that it is alright to let more foreigners into the country.

  Rating: +12 (from 12 votes)
• NotMyProblem:

  October 31, 2019 at 9:46 pm  (Quote)

  I will be there to support this protest.
  I don’t want to see the day when Singaporeans need to kneel and bow to foreigners for mercy, like during the Japanese Occupation experienced by my parents.
  CECA is killing Singaporeans. I don’t want my children and grandchildren to suffer.
  I hope you don’t like to see that too!!

  Rating: +12 (from 12 votes)
• PAP Ministers All Indecisive:

  October 31, 2019 at 10:28 pm  (Quote)

  Due to many injuries and death, France has decided to ban E Scooters from the footpath. They cannot even park at the footpath. They also cannot use the highway but only on the roads. To date Singapore Ministers still cannot decide what to do.
  Now with CECA which allows Indian Company to have Intra Corporate transfers, all they have to do is recruit new Indian workers back at their Indian Office under their company name and then transfer them to the Singapore office. These people can even bring their dependents over and work in Singapore. This is a loophole which allows them to bring their own kind and thus avoid recruiting local Singaporeans. Our own Ministers all got tricked AND UP TO NOW CANNOT TAKE ANY ACTIONS.
  No wonder there is now a total of 800,000 Indians working in Singapore solving Modi’s unemployment problems in India.
  China is indeed very smart. They refuse to allow the Indians to bring in their workers to China as they have their own people to take care of. As a result, the RCEP Agreement cannot be signed up to now.
  Do You want to still vote for these kind of stupid Ministers in the coming election ?
  Don’t kill your own future generations.

  Rating: +10 (from 10 votes)
• Harder Truths:

  October 31, 2019 at 10:50 pm  (Quote)

  Gilbert – the core of the ‘open a**’ policy is simple – we allow their shit to be thrown here and they allow TH-owned companies such as DBS and Jurong to go there and get ‘preferential’ treatment into their market to make profits for the $G white clowns.
  Ask them where the benefits are for $G citizens either way.
  It is just not CECA but the FT policies we need to abolish.
  This means abolishing the root cause of all our problems – The Cancer Clown’s Circus.

  Rating: +7 (from 7 votes)