Pan-dems cannibalise one of their own
Former lawmaker Frederick Fung is being roasted by yellow ribbon media outlets for saying he may run in a by-election if Lau Siu-lai is disqualified
No sooner had disqualified lawmaker Lau Siu-lai announced her bid in the November by-election for the Kowloon West constituency, than a united front had already been formed.
No, I don’t mean the usual communist variety, but the pan-democratic type. Practically every yellow ribbon media outfit has been out in force attacking fellow pan-democrat and former legislator Frederick Fung Kin-kee.
Fung’s crime? It’s for announcing that he might – might – run in the by-election in the event that Lau is disqualified by the election authorities.
Note that he is not saying he will run against Lau, the opposition’s so-called plan A, but its plan B, that is Lee Cheuk-yan, Lau’s Labour Party comrade.
In fact, Lau joined the party for the sole purpose of having Lee as a second by-election choice. And this has become the consensus plan B for the entire opposition camp, so how dare Fung not play along!
Both CitizenNews and Stand News simultaneously ran the same op-ed with the anonymous byline “Middle-class citizen”.