My Take | Hong Kong pan-dems now reap what they have sown
Opposition lawmakers who pledged ‘a struggle to the death’ have been mercilessly mocked by localists and they only have themselves to blame
When opposition lawmakers called for an Occupy-like overnight rally against rewriting the rule book in the legislature, only a handful of supporters showed up.
Legislative Council security and police cleared the area in no time. So much for what they have called “a struggle to the death”.
More humiliating for the lawmakers is that instead of sympathy, they were mercilessly mocked – by localists.
Wong Yuk-man, former lawmaker and “father of Legco filibustering”, might be expected to support the pan-dems’ efforts against curbing filibustering and other delay tactics in Legco.
Instead Wong spent no fewer than three segments on his online radio show ridiculing and shouting obscenities at them.
Ernie Chow Shue-fung, the former Chinese University student union president who acquired citywide notoriety on YouTube for shouting racial slurs at fellow mainland students, said the pan-dems had no credibility among street protesters. Chow, who also has his own radio show, labelled the pan-dems “Legco self-castrators and sinners of a thousand epochs”.