There is no reason why a 99 lease flat will not be of zero value. When the lease expires, it must be worthless. Anyone disagree? For those lucky few that were selected under the SERS scheme and given a new flat, the lease is renewed, but will still return to zero if there is no second SERS along the way. For the rest of 99 year lease flat owners, the day must come when their flat is worth nothing.
Can anyone guarantee otherwise, and hope to strike lottery with a SERS offer? Buyers of such flats with a short remaining lease must think very carefully the real remaining value of such flats and how much they are willing to pay for them.
5/23/2013
No, it's not racist to stop immigrants
No, it’s not racist to stop illegals conning their way into UK or tell all immigrants that they must speak our language
[Editor's note: The article is written by Baroness Warsi, UK's Senior Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Minister for Faith and Communities at the Department for Communities and Local Government.]
(11 May) – Immigration is one of the biggest political issues of our time – yet for too long we weren’t allowed to discuss it for fear of being labelled racist.
Remember Gillian Duffy? In 2010, when the Rochdale pensioner raised her concerns about the numbers of people coming into Britain, Gordon Brown called her a bigot.
She and thousands like her were deemed narrow-minded for questioning Labour’s mass immigration policy – a policy that saw 2.2 million migrants arrive during Labour’s 13-year rule.
At the time, we were consistently told that this was for economic reasons, that we needed more newcomers to boost productivity.
In fact, it was also a politically motivated ploy to change the make-up of Britain. According to former Labour adviser Andrew Neather, it was designed to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date’.
But after a decade of misguided social engineering, today’s politicians have a responsibility to confront this issue; as Conservative politicians, I believe it is our duty….
Cutting the numbers of immigrants has nothing to do with race but to do with the pressure on services such as schools, hospitals and housing.
To use a former Conservative election mantra, it’s not racist to limit immigration and our aim has always been to cut it….
I can’t think of anyone who would argue that British taxpayers should subsidise healthcare or benefits for those who are not entitled to them….
The above are parts of an article posted in TRE that bear a lot of similarities to the situation we are in now. Someone is going to quote that the Brits are also doing it so we cannot be wrong. Or we have been following this model for a long time.
Great Britain is not going to be great anymore, and its immigration policy over the last few decades helped to bring it down faster. Britain will not be the same anymore and it is too late to do anything.
When Enoch Powell was voicing out his strong opposition to the opening up of Britain to Asian immigrants, he was opposed by many and regarded as a racist. He was ahead of his time. He was right but not politically correct. And the state of Britain today and going forward is not going to look pretty.
Singapore is almost in the same mould and the pitfalls will be worst and the effects will be much greater given the smallness in our size. If nothing is done to stop this crazy immigration policy, we will be unrecognizable in one generation, for the worst.
There must be urgency to stop this ruse. Hong Lim Protest is not for fun. It is a very serious matter and the consequences will be very grave, very soon.
[Editor's note: The article is written by Baroness Warsi, UK's Senior Minister of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Minister for Faith and Communities at the Department for Communities and Local Government.]
(11 May) – Immigration is one of the biggest political issues of our time – yet for too long we weren’t allowed to discuss it for fear of being labelled racist.
Remember Gillian Duffy? In 2010, when the Rochdale pensioner raised her concerns about the numbers of people coming into Britain, Gordon Brown called her a bigot.
She and thousands like her were deemed narrow-minded for questioning Labour’s mass immigration policy – a policy that saw 2.2 million migrants arrive during Labour’s 13-year rule.
At the time, we were consistently told that this was for economic reasons, that we needed more newcomers to boost productivity.
In fact, it was also a politically motivated ploy to change the make-up of Britain. According to former Labour adviser Andrew Neather, it was designed to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date’.
But after a decade of misguided social engineering, today’s politicians have a responsibility to confront this issue; as Conservative politicians, I believe it is our duty….
Cutting the numbers of immigrants has nothing to do with race but to do with the pressure on services such as schools, hospitals and housing.
To use a former Conservative election mantra, it’s not racist to limit immigration and our aim has always been to cut it….
I can’t think of anyone who would argue that British taxpayers should subsidise healthcare or benefits for those who are not entitled to them….
The above are parts of an article posted in TRE that bear a lot of similarities to the situation we are in now. Someone is going to quote that the Brits are also doing it so we cannot be wrong. Or we have been following this model for a long time.
Great Britain is not going to be great anymore, and its immigration policy over the last few decades helped to bring it down faster. Britain will not be the same anymore and it is too late to do anything.
When Enoch Powell was voicing out his strong opposition to the opening up of Britain to Asian immigrants, he was opposed by many and regarded as a racist. He was ahead of his time. He was right but not politically correct. And the state of Britain today and going forward is not going to look pretty.
Singapore is almost in the same mould and the pitfalls will be worst and the effects will be much greater given the smallness in our size. If nothing is done to stop this crazy immigration policy, we will be unrecognizable in one generation, for the worst.
There must be urgency to stop this ruse. Hong Lim Protest is not for fun. It is a very serious matter and the consequences will be very grave, very soon.
5/22/2013
Shane Todd and the sinking of Choeonan
Some of you may remember the sinking of the South Korean naval ship Choeonan and killing at least 20 young sailors in it. The South Korean Govt and people were furious. An inquiry with the help of the infamous Americans and some allies were conducted and found the North Koreans guilty of sinking the Choeonan.
This act was serious enough for war, the sinking of a naval ship and killing so many sailors. The North Korean protested that they were innocent and demanded to see the evidence. The South Koreans refused to let them, the reason was obvious. Even their own South Korean investigators found that the North Koreans were innocent. It was a kangaroo court at international level. Flying a false flag! The South Koreans and the Americans fabricated the evidence to find the North Koreans guilty and refused the condemned party from looking at the evidence to prove their innocence.
In the Shane Todd case, the Police is a neutral party. Investigated and found the case to be suicide. Under no circumstances would a govt allow a foreigner to reopen investigation just because they are unhappy with the findings. This is national sovereignty. In the case of the Choeonan, it is different as one country accused another country, extra terresterial.
The act of allowing a foreigner’s request to reopen a suicide case on grounds that the parents believed he was murdered is a very generous act. And I believe the tribunal is to examine all evidence available from both parties to determine if it was suicide or murder. The investigation put the whole police and justice system on trial and if found wanting could be very embarrassing. No govt in a sound mind will do such a thing. The Todd’s family should be very appreciative of this gesture and stop thinking that it was their natural right to have this privilege. It is a gesture that the Govt would regret and would likely not to be repeated again.
The stomping out from the court by the Todd family because of lack of time to examine a new witness is regrettable. It would be good if both parties amiably come to an arrangement to provide more time to examine this witness as the interest of both parties is the truth and not procedural. Let’s hope that the trial will continue and less bad barbs are traded. The trial has gone so far and let the truth speaks instead of accusations and acrimonious remarks being repeated so often from one side. It is looking like the whole govt is under trial, that we are some third world country that cannot conduct a suicide investigation, and that someone could claim murder just by looking at photographs taken without any first hand knowledge and to be presumed to be superior and correct than all the experts that investigated that case.
It is best the Todd family brings out better evidence to prove their suspicion, and this is a golden opportunity offered, not to anyone else. This is exceptionalism to the extreme for the American family. Please appreciate it. If they are so unappreciative and continue to throw tantrums and make unnecessarily negative remarks about the judicial system, hinting that it is a kangaroo court, the Govt might as well withdraw the offer for this investigation. Is the Todd family thinking that our judicial system is so unfair and they will not get the justice or truth they came to seek? If that is the case, why waste the time of everyone?
Please remember Choeonan when one party was found guilty of serious crime but not allow to defend themselves and not allow to examine the evidence of guilt.
For every Singaporean who loses his job, two foreigners got employed
When a Singaporean is being replaced by a foreigner, one job is lost to him while a foreigner got employed. For a foreigner being employed here, he quits or does not apply to get another job in his country. His country gets a spare job and his countryman gets a job.
This is the generosity of Singapore. For every job we create, two foreigners are employed. Never mind if one Singaporean becomes jobless. That is our contribution to the world, job creation. And if there are 500,000 foreigners working here, we have actually created 1m jobs, regardless of whether a Singaporean is being replaced.
Singapore deserves a Noble Prize for being so magnanimous and noble.
No need for so many universities
Why would employers want to pay a fresh graduate who knows nothing, needs a lot of training and hand holding before they are productive? And if a Singaporean, heh heh, there are a lot more of other commitments and irritations and disruptions. And now father and mother also want paternity and maternity leaves.
Why, when it is so easy to get a trained employee with 20 years of experience from overseas and probably cost the same or marginally more? When this overseas tap is turned on at full, there is no incentive or advantage to hire a fresh local graduate.
It makes a lot of sense for Singaporeans not to get the degree and seek other alternatives to get a job, not even getting a diploma will make much difference. Why spend so much money if one wants to be a hawker or taxi driver? Why when most of the jobs can be filled by better qualified and experience foreigners? This is a seriously good and practical advice.
But for a lot of Singaporeans, this is not necessary the case as they are gainfully employed in good jobs, can afford expensive cars and flats and would not be replaced by foreigners. It shows that many Singaporeans are able to compete with the talents of the world on their world and would never be replaced. Isn’t this good news?
For those who are unable to compete, our universities are redundant. And now we have 4 and many more universities that are not fully govt funded, or private universities. It is good advice for parents not to waste their money and their children’s time going for a degree or diploma. Take the easier route, be a hawker, a sales person, insurance or housing agent, or whatever agent. If can’t get a job here, go overseas where the demand for Singaporeans are better.
The whole employment scene is designed for trained and experienced foreigners. And there is no need even to discriminate openly. The foreigners are just too attractive for employment. Now what is there left for Singaporeans? Join the army or the police. At least they provide decent jobs. But be quick before they start to recruit foreigners or PRs as well.
Still thinking of university education?
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