Tag: opposition

Philippine Opposition hopelessly fragmented due to lack of an intelligent leader

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

Some the the Philippines’ most influential social media “thought leaders” — mostly from the current Opposition camp — are clucking about all the wrong things about three of the biggest issues confronting Filipinos today. Because of a lack of modern and intelligent thinking applied to their chatter, they contribute neither clarity nor value to the…

Politics, Society

My timeline is filled with Fake News Crybabies!

July 6, 2017April 4, 2022 benign0 7 Comments

You know why “activists” in the Opposition camp are not going anywhere nowadays? It’s because they keep whining about “fake news”. Fake news this, fake news that. To them, all the Philippines’ problems of today can be summarised in two words: (1) “fake” and (2) “news”. This is a disturbing developing trend. It highlights an…

Culture, Media

Leni Robredo should redeem Trillanes’s dignity after it was crushed by the BBC’s #HARDtalk

June 26, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

Philippine “senator” Antonio Trillanes’s epic choke during an interview with Stephen Sackur in the BBC’s HARDtalk programme last week all but highlighted the sad disarray of the Philippine Opposition. Indeed, last week was a perfect storm as it saw the coming together of insight into just how inutile the Philippine Opposition of today has become….

Media, Politics

Trillanes TV meltdown a fatal blow to the credibility of the Philippine Opposition

June 23, 2017 benign0 14 Comments

Following the “burning” of Philippine “senator” Antonio Trillanes IV on live TV in the BBC talk show HARDtalk, attention now turns to a beleaguered Opposition faced with the hard question: What now? Trillanes, after all, had been one of if not the most aggressive of the Philippine Opposition’s attack dogs. Now reduced to a national…

Media, Politics

Is the Duterte presidency fated to be a wasted opportunity?

May 7, 2017May 8, 2017 FallenAngel 44 Comments

What happens if President Rodrigo Duterte is toppled? Easy. Things revert to the status quo. The Liberal Party (LP) – the no-results, hypocritically decent, group of politicians whom Filipinos have had to bear with for the past thirty years – will be back in power. The drug problem, which has been the cornerstone of Duterte’s…

Crime, Culture, Economy, Politics

The Liberal Party has FAILED in its role as part of ‘the opposition’

March 1, 2017 FallenAngel 5 Comments

There is something to be said about how the Liberal Party (LP), the political force that has remained ubiquitous ever since the 1986 People Power Movement, has handled its role as part of political opposition to the Rodrigo Duterte administration. The volume of statements coming from the LP-led opposition has not died down, despite the…

Development, Government, Politics

Sec Gina Lopez faces off with miners while VP Leni Robredo, well, holds ANOTHER press conference

February 9, 2017February 13, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

As expected, Vice President Leni Robredo, in her recent press conference remains stuck in issuing motherhood statements about President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. So much for the symbol of “woman power” she was put up to by her social media fans. Unfortunately for Robredo, that ill-thought-out branding no longer flies — not with the…

Environment, Government, Media

Why Leni Robredo will FAIL as leader of the Philippine Opposition

December 15, 2016 benign0 36 Comments

The Philippines’ Opposition do need a leader. Desperately. Indeed, I’ve recognised that a long time ago in my July 2014 piece The Philippine opposition remains too flaccid and disorganised to EXPLOIT the current situation. I wrote then how “as Opposition to former President Marcos, then during the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Yellow…

Culture, Politics