by Wijith DeChickera | Sep 2, 2015 | DailyFT
The Government wants the real Opposition to be part of the Government. A minority party with a minor fraction of our house of commons to its name wants to sit as the main Opposition. And the Legislature is looking increasingly like a charnel-house Today is...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 28, 2015 | DailyFT
Now it looks as if the next two years at least will be a much more but still compromised benevolent oligarchy in which ‘national government’ means precious little in terms of accountability to the people Politics, like cricket, is a game of glorious...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 21, 2015 | DailyFT
There is every possibility that the UNP and its partners in constituting the new government might interpret the people’s will as a mandate to implement the plans spelled out in its election manifesto. That would be missing much of the point An election,...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 17, 2015 | DailyFT
By the time you read this, most probably, the die would have been cast – together with your vote. Or is there still the faintest glimmer that you’ll catch a vision of what I’m envisaging, before you rush off to your friendly neighbourhood...
by Wijith DeChickera | Aug 13, 2015 | DailyFT
If you were hoping that the post-‘Revolution’ parliamentary election would be fought over matters of principle, you might be quite mistaken – and/or rather disappointed. The chips are down again, and all the customary stops have been pulled out by...
