This call for protests now is a hollow one wayyy too late. Cry me a river but the tears will only add more water for this boat to sail.
The protests should have started against Ranil when he was saying things like “Alimankada kiyala pamankada yanawalu…” or when he jet set to Norway to cut deals for the enemy at the verge of LTTE defeat. At least when he put together that set of strange mismatched clown outfit. You should have THEN said, OMG, this guy is destroying the alternative option I want to support and protested for new leadership!
Late to the party, so take the back seat! Save your time picketing, and rather form a new opposition if you care that deeply, if you want an alternative view heard! I believe this is the fruitful thing you can do. Despite the term extensions, there will always be elections. If you don’t groom the next, then you won’t even catch Namal’s tail when those elections come. Yeah that means forget about the next 10/20 years. SLFP will be reigning for the near future… This is welcome news for me, but since it is not for you, my advice is.. Start from a BIG FAT ZERO, suck it up and work hard to regain what you lost! Or just waste every body’s time protesting something that the majority now endorses, including my self! Swear, if you block the road I’m on, I’m gonna honk till you go deaf…. I can understand how this can be so depressing to ardent UNPers, but that’s why there are shrinks. Most likely you can afford one, if you’re that cut 😉 haha
]]>The irony is that the same elements that brought MR to power, with their Sinhala nationalism, are now protesting against him.
A case of backfiring!
]]>Gentlemanly qualities aren’t a yardstick to measure the effectiveness of a person’s political acumen. Being a gentleman doesn’t really matter if you can’t put two and two together. Ranil’s eggs are being stolen by a fox, and him being the gentleman, is simply keeping the door of his coop open to it. He’s watched as Mahinda has robbed him blind in pure daylight. Mind you, Mahinda didn’t just run off with his ministers, he ran off with Ranil’s credibility, dignity, and whatever little iota of respect that he had left.
Ranil Wickremasinghe may be a gentleman, but he is one heckuva mindless drone of a gentleman who is completely oblivious to the outside world. He is still holding onto that pulpit that has completely lost its value due to his own actions, and he’s simply handed over all authority of this country to that man in the ‘saatakaya’.
I mean no offence, but It also says a lot about how gullible and vain you are when you defend Wickremasinghe, even after he has lost 14 times, proven himself to be an ineffectual in many aspects of leadership, and pretty much desecrated the oldest political party in Sri Lanka single handedly. You grant him a vote for being a gentleman. If stupidity, shortsightedness and false virtue were positive criteria for a candidate, then the floodgates will open and Ranil would take victory fairly simply.
The clothes don’t make a man. Wickremasinghe is now a has-been. He is redundant and should realize it. If 14 losses, a bulk of stolen seats, and a dilapidated political party doesn’t show you how incapable he is in his position, you probably are in as much need of professional help as he is.
]]>Actually the credit goes to Ranil Wickremasinghe, who has defied all democratic norms by insisting on remaining Leader of the Opposition despite leading the Opposition to failure after failure over more than a decade.
Nobody will vote UNP simply because they know Ranil will run the country the same way he is running the UNP.
]]>On another point, does anyone know of the legal possibilities of a voter filing a case against crossover MP’s on breach of trust and maybe false promises?
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