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SDP

Social Democratic Party sounds like Bernie Sanders or European mainstream, but in its history it has not really maintained a systematic manifesto. Its image at any time was that of its then leader: Chiam See Tong the friendly critic, or Chee Soon Juan the civil disobedience activist. 

After a momentary success in the 1991 election, when it won 3 seats (WP only one), it developed internal conflicts and came close to disintegration, but held on long enough to reach the digital age, when opposition politics suddenly became much easier. WWW allowed them to reach an audience without the help of the mainstream media, and to raise money, hence to run campaigns and cover expenses like roadside posters, rallies and candidate desposits at nomination.

However, despite being able to recruit sufficient candidates to run in multiple electorates in successive elections, it has yet to win a seat after 1991. In particular, it had a curious experience with LBGT activists: a number of them were participating then stopped, and it seems to have made a deliberate choice to distance itself from them. Maybe it too asked "Pinkdot is successful, but are there votes in it?"

Jolovan Wham

Currently member of SDP

he seems to be following CSJ's civil disobedience playbook; he organized a meeting in which Joshua Wong, the HK student leader, spoke via skype;

this was regarded as foreign political influence & he was jailed; he then took a photo of himself holding sign before law court,

for which he was charged; then smile sign before police station

for which he is now under police investigation

Whether these activities advance freedom of expression in Singapore, or bring him sympathy votes, or move forward whatever other objective he wants to promote, we will know only at the next election.

Is it necessary to expend police and legal manpower on little pranks like this? The analogy is the case of Francis Soh Seng Chye, who met his cousin to hand over car and was invited home to dinner. Though this violates social distancing order at the time, it would hardly cause legal issues, but he took photos of the gathering and put them on Facebook. Even that would not have been serious, maybe getting a warning, but he wrote: “After a long long long long super long day … we are having a illegal gathering … so what? Enjoy the food to the max.”

If you put up a challenge "I dare you to make this illegal and punish me", the singapore system is likely to comply.