Shameless Ambiga’s Final Salvo Off Her Sinking Ship

Ambiga Sreenevasan was never going to make a quiet, or for that matter a dignified exit from her largely superfluous Bersih movement.

But she has truly outdone herself with her self-serving and harmful calls for the rakyat to take to the streets for the sake of her publicly-stated cause – poll reform – and her unstated cause – her ego – which has grown gargantuan with every public spectacle to date.

"Our fight for electoral reform will continue. Our People's Tribunal will proceed," she said, referring to her latest creation, the so-called "People's Tribunals", which will sit in belated judgement of GE13.

This means Ambiga and her friends on her panel will be looking back into the past while Datuk Seri Najib Razak's Parliamentary committee will be looking ahead - reforming the Election Commission like never before in its history.

It will assemble with MPs from both sides of politics and will hear carefully weighted submissions in an open forum. It will then make recommendations to the Government that will prove no Malaysian institution is immune from the forces of transformation.

Can Ambiga's little stunt team deliver that? Not a chance.

But back to her latest plans. Ambiga says public protest could be the way forward because "protest may be the only option".

As usual, her position is wrong for so many reasons.

Firstly, she is out of step with popular sentiment. As Datuk Seri Anwar's Ibrahim's flagging campaign to discredit GE13 is proving; the public want to move on. And so do the MPs who aren't interested in a boycott of the swearing in ceremony – yet another half-baked protest idea that is failing to gain traction.

The next thing is Ambiga is failing to realise is that she is not the same force for mass action that she used to be. Last year her infamous 8T concert drew just 500 people and this year her "dirtiest election ever" prophecy fell flat when Pakatan Rakyat made gains at GE13. Opposition parties don't make gains in dirty elections.

Worse still her old friend Karpal Singh undermined her cause when he announced that that Government's voting reforms "look alright".

One has to question Ambiga's motives for such a lame last stand. Perhaps she is already missing the limelight and knows the way to get her name back in the news is to shakes thing up in this way by fomenting revolt. Make no mistake that if you turn up to one of her protests you are stroking her ego and undermining our democracy at the same time.

It's time to go Ambiga! You promised us you'd leave Bersih behind so please live up to that promise and disappear. Malaysia has moved on – something you are clearly unable to do.

Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan was never going to make a quiet, or for that matter a dignified exit from her largely superfluous Bersih movement.

But she has truly outdone herself with her self-serving and harmful calls for the rakyat to take to the streets for the sake of her publicly-stated cause – poll reform – and her unstated cause – her ego – which has grown gargantuan with every public spectacle to date.

"Our fight for electoral reform will continue. Our People's Tribunal will proceed," she said, referring to her latest creation, the so-called "People's Tribunals", which will sit in belated judgement of GE13.

This means Ambiga and her friends on her panel will be looking back into the past while Datuk Seri Najib Razak's Parliamentary committee will be looking ahead - reforming the Election Commission like never before in its history.

It will assemble with MPs from both sides of politics and will hear carefully weighted submissions in an open forum. It will then make recommendations to the Government that will prove no Malaysian institution is immune from the forces of transformation.

Can Ambiga's little stunt team deliver that? Not a chance.

But back to her latest plans. Ambiga says public protest could be the way forward because "protest may be the only option".

As usual, her position is wrong for so many reasons.

Firstly, she is out of step with popular sentiment. As Datuk Seri Anwar's Ibrahim's flagging campaign to discredit GE13 is proving; the public want to move on. And so do the MPs who aren't interested in a boycott of the swearing in ceremony – yet another half-baked protest idea that is failing to gain traction.

The next thing is Ambiga is failing to realise is that she is not the same force for mass action that she used to be. Last year her infamous 8T concert drew just 500 people and this year her "dirtiest election ever" prophecy fell flat when Pakatan Rakyat made gains at GE13. Opposition parties don't make gains in dirty elections.

Worse still her old friend Karpal Singh undermined her cause when he announced that that Government's voting reforms "look alright".

One has to question Ambiga's motives for such a lame last stand. Perhaps she is already missing the limelight and knows the way to get her name back in the news is to shakes thing up in this way by fomenting revolt. Make no mistake that if you turn up to one of her protests you are stroking her ego and undermining our democracy at the same time.

It's time to go Ambiga! You promised us you'd leave Bersih behind so please live up to that promise and disappear. Malaysia has moved on – something you are clearly unable to do.Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan was never going to make a quiet, or for that matter a dignified exit from her largely superfluous Bersih movement.
But she has truly outdone herself with her self-serving and harmful calls for the rakyat to take to the streets for the sake of her publicly-stated cause – poll reform – and her unstated cause – her ego – which has grown gargantuan with every public spectacle to date.
"Our fight for electoral reform will continue. Our People's Tribunal will proceed," she said, referring to her latest creation, the so-called "People's Tribunals", which will sit in belated judgement of GE13.
This means Ambiga and her friends on her panel will be looking back into the past while Datuk Seri Najib Razak's Parliamentary committee will be looking ahead - reforming the Election Commission like never before in its history.
It will assemble with MPs from both sides of politics and will hear carefully weighted submissions in an open forum. It will then make recommendations to the Government that will prove no Malaysian institution is immune from the forces of transformation.
Can Ambiga's little stunt team deliver that? Not a chance.
But back to her latest plans. Ambiga says public protest could be the way forward because "protest may be the only option".
As usual, her position is wrong for so many reasons.
Firstly, she is out of step with popular sentiment. As Datuk Seri Anwar's Ibrahim's flagging campaign to discredit GE13 is proving; the public want to move on. And so do the MPs who aren't interested in a boycott of the swearing in ceremony – yet another half-baked protest idea that is failing to gain traction.
The next thing is Ambiga is failing to realise is that she is not the same force for mass action that she used to be. Last year her infamous 8T concert drew just 500 people and this year her "dirtiest election ever" prophecy fell flat when Pakatan Rakyat made gains at GE13. Opposition parties don't make gains in dirty elections.
Worse still her old friend Karpal Singh undermined her cause when he announced that that Government's voting reforms "look alright".
One has to question Ambiga's motives for such a lame last stand. Perhaps she is already missing the limelight and knows the way to get her name back in the news is to shakes thing up in this way by fomenting revolt. Make no mistake that if you turn up to one of her protests you are stroking her ego and undermining our democracy at the same time.
It's time to go Ambiga! You promised us you'd leave Bersih behind so please live up to that promise and disappear. Malaysia has moved on – something you are clearly unable to do.
- See more at: http://www.thechoice.my/top-stories/64900-shameless-ambigas-final-salvo-off-her-sinking-ship#sthash.cxo1a1BT.dpuf

Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan was never going to make a quiet, or for that matter a dignified exit from her largely superfluous Bersih movement.
But she has truly outdone herself with her self-serving and harmful calls for the rakyat to take to the streets for the sake of her publicly-stated cause – poll reform – and her unstated cause – her ego – which has grown gargantuan with every public spectacle to date.
"Our fight for electoral reform will continue. Our People's Tribunal will proceed," she said, referring to her latest creation, the so-called "People's Tribunals", which will sit in belated judgement of GE13.
This means Ambiga and her friends on her panel will be looking back into the past while Datuk Seri Najib Razak's Parliamentary committee will be looking ahead - reforming the Election Commission like never before in its history.
It will assemble with MPs from both sides of politics and will hear carefully weighted submissions in an open forum. It will then make recommendations to the Government that will prove no Malaysian institution is immune from the forces of transformation.
Can Ambiga's little stunt team deliver that? Not a chance.
But back to her latest plans. Ambiga says public protest could be the way forward because "protest may be the only option".
As usual, her position is wrong for so many reasons.
Firstly, she is out of step with popular sentiment. As Datuk Seri Anwar's Ibrahim's flagging campaign to discredit GE13 is proving; the public want to move on. And so do the MPs who aren't interested in a boycott of the swearing in ceremony – yet another half-baked protest idea that is failing to gain traction.
The next thing is Ambiga is failing to realise is that she is not the same force for mass action that she used to be. Last year her infamous 8T concert drew just 500 people and this year her "dirtiest election ever" prophecy fell flat when Pakatan Rakyat made gains at GE13. Opposition parties don't make gains in dirty elections.
Worse still her old friend Karpal Singh undermined her cause when he announced that that Government's voting reforms "look alright".
One has to question Ambiga's motives for such a lame last stand. Perhaps she is already missing the limelight and knows the way to get her name back in the news is to shakes thing up in this way by fomenting revolt. Make no mistake that if you turn up to one of her protests you are stroking her ego and undermining our democracy at the same time.
It's time to go Ambiga! You promised us you'd leave Bersih behind so please live up to that promise and disappear. Malaysia has moved on – something you are clearly unable to do.
- See more at: http://www.thechoice.my/top-stories/64900-shameless-ambigas-final-salvo-off-her-sinking-ship#sthash.cxo1a1BT.dpuf