The Rajapaksa regime was looking after British Members of Parliament from the Conservative Party better than it was looking after the interests of its own MPs and ministers in the Government, UNP MP and former SLFP stalwart and the former Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera charged in Parliament yesterday.
Mangala Samaraweera
Exposing details of monies amounting to thousands of pounds paid by the Sri Lankan Government to several British Parliamentarians from UK’s ruling Conservative Party, Samaraweera accused both President Mahinda Rajapaksa and British Prime Minister David Cameron of putting on what he called a ‘pre Christmas Pantomime’ on the sidelines of CHOGM.
Opening the Committee Stage Discussion on the Votes of the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development last week I said that for many of us who have seen through the duplicitous nature of this regime and understood its “Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds” policy, it did not come as a great surprise to learn that the family members of this regime have been making large contributions to the ruling Conservative Party in the United Kingdom since 2011, despite the pre-Christmas pantomime – that is what I call it – put on by Prime Minister Cameron and President Rajapaksa on behalf of their respective constituencies during the CHOGM one month ago,” Samaraweera charged.
Samaraweera tabled a letter written to Prime Minister Cameron by British MP Tom Blenkinsop, last week, expressing concern of a news that a prominent donor to the Conservative Party has links to the Rajapaksa’s regime through a nephew of the President and requesting Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary, to look into the matter urgently.
“Mr. Chairman, since then, I have even more details of how the Rajapaksa regime is resorting to duplicitous and devious methods to win over Members of Parliament and other influential people especially in the House of Commons using government funds which should be allocated to Ministries in Sri Lanka,” the UNP MP revealed.
“In days gone by we have heard that some people, in the absence of grieving kith and kin, used to hire women to cry at their funerals. Likewise, the Rajapaksa Regime, in the absence of friends in the international community, has resorted to buying friends to sing their praise in their respective countries,” he charged.
Quoting from a Sunday Times newspaper report on 15th December, 2013 Samaraweera said the report claimed : “Lanka pays British MP £ 3,412 to attend Business Forum”
“A Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons has declared that he was paid around Sterling Pounds 3,412 to attend the Commonwealth Business Forum in Colombo. The event was held ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last month.
Parliamentarians in the UK are required by statute to declare foreign funds, gifts or invitations they receive. Ian Paisley Jnr, (North Antrim)- who has come to Sri Lanka and on previous visits hosted by the Government, had been paid Sterling Pounds 2,812 for flights to Colombo and a further Sterling Pounds 600 for accommodation,” Samaraweera quoted from the report.
He said the report indicated that the MPs visit was from November 11 to 15 and the purpose of the visit has been declared as “to speak at the Commonwealth Business Forum.”
Samaraweera said that although the MP told the British Parliament he is coming here to speak, he did not speak at this Forum held in Colombo. “In fact, the Conservative Party obviously had become worried about the dubious fascination some of their backbench MPs had for the Rajapaksa Regime and this compelled the Chief Whip of the United Kingdom, Mr. Swayne, I believe, to stop five Conservative MPs coming to Sri Lanka because they had all been previous recipients of all-expense-paid trips to Sri Lanka,” Samaraweera charged.
Then reading from a report in the UK’s Independent newspaper of Friday, 23rd November, 2012 Samaraweera said:
“Four visits in nine months and statements in the Commons on the controversial Rajapaksa regime: why does the 28-year-old MP for Stockton James Wharton care so much about Sri Lanka?”
The MP said that under this heading the report tells how Wharton was the head of a delegation of nine UK Parliamentarians on a journey to Sri Lanka in July and August of that year and it goes on to say how he came again later that year. It also mentions that he is a very frequent visitor to the High Commission.
“Another MP who was stopped from coming to Colombo for CHOGM is Conservative MP, Hon. Aidan Burley in the UK who along with his girlfriend also enjoyed a lavish, all -expenses-paid trip to Sri Lanka early this year. Not only the MP, his girlfriend also wined and dined by the Rajapaksa Regime in Sri Lanka. They were kept at all the highly expensive resorts and wined and dined by the person whose name I cannot say for obvious reasons. You know, the handler and the provider,” Samaraweera charged.
“What is even more shocking according to Westminster sources, Mr. Chairman, this is of course hearsay and may be even gossip. But in the British Parliament they are saying that Mr. Aidan Burley’s wedding which is to be held at a resort in the Maldives in the early part of the next year is also to be financed by the Sri Lankan Government,” Samaraweera told the House.
Samaraweera charged that the Government of Sri Lanka was busy financing the weddings of British MPs but it could not allocate enough funds for Ministers to spend at their ministries.
They are busy financing weddings of British MPs but they cannot give any of you enough money to spend in your Ministry. This is outrageous.
Samaraweera continued to tell Parliament of the reports that had appeared in the British press.
“Along with them, the other MPs according to British Parliament who enjoyed this lavish all -expenses-paid trip coordinated by the handler and the provider, other than James Wharton, Ian Paisley and Aidan Burley are, Mark Pritchard, Member of Parliament, Conservative MP, Vice-Chair of the Sri Lanka All-Party Parliamentary Group, the Hon. Brian Binley, MP, Conservative, Joint Secretary of the Sri Lanka All-Party Parliamentary Group, then of course, from the House of Lords, Lord Naseby, Conservative and Joint Chair of the Sri Lanka All-Party Parliamentary Group, Lord Rogan who is an Ulster Unionist. All these people, from the information that we have, have accepted hospitality in Sri Lanka and all their tickets and their stay was paid for by the Sri Lankan Government. According to conservative estimates, the expenses incurred only for these seven MPs have been over Sterling Pounds 100,000. Just for seven people, over Sterling Pounds 100,000,” he quoted.
“As I said last time, the “Nonises” and the “Monises” of the world are busy grandstanding about our sovereignty and our 2500 year history to the fascination of the chattering classes of Colombo while at the same time they are busy squandering our much needed foreign reserves,” the UNP MP said.
Samaraweera said that the Government was spending the country’s much needed foreign reserves trying to buy up foreign MPs or showering them with hideously expensive gifts as they have done with the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot.
“I must say has declared his gifts including the diamond cuff-links in his own country. In fact, Mr. Chairman, I am rather curious to know the type of gifts the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth got for saving the day for this regime going as far as hiding two reports regarding the impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake from CMAG Members. So, I am sure, he would also have been showered with very expensive gifts of all kinds and I am rather curious to find out what those gifts were,” he quipped.
“Finally, as far as this matter is concerned, Mr. Chairman, with all due respect to you, I think the Madamulana Doctrine on international relations seems to be, “If you cannot win them, buy them.” That seems to be the doctrine of this Government or at least a section of the Government who are working,” the MP charged.
Dinuk / December 19, 2013
Well well, the UNP under unpopular Ranil’s dictatorship is helping the Rajapassa regime stay in power. No effective campaign has been undertaken to educate SINHALAYA MODAYAS on the criminality of the Rajapakse regime. The Jarapassas are taxing and extorting from the common people to subsidize the KINGSBURY life style, car races and CHOGM circus of the corrupt Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, family and their cronies.
Please Mangy run a campaign in Sinhala to educate the masses – that the poor are taxed to subsidize the rich in the miracle of Asia!
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Liberal One / December 19, 2013
Fool every country taxes the people, do you know any other alternative?
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ruwan / December 19, 2013
Fool, NOT every country ‘Liberal One’, haven’t you heard of some Middle eastern countries that don’t ? Sinhala Modayas like you should stick your heads up your As_ and go to sleep forever !
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Liberal One / December 20, 2013
lol stick to sri lanka bashing without talking about economics. Obviously you don’t know the difference between oil rich middle east and rest of the world.
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sarojini / December 19, 2013
Mangala Samaraweera encourages and promotes wrong doing like how he stood up to defend the PM DIMU JAYARATNE in parliament yesterday. MS Knows very well that letter , was sent under the seal of the PM’s office to clear the container containing a massive haul of drugs. This shows that DMJ is not competent enough to remain as a PM . It is a question of the left hand does not know what the right hand does . Is he not the person in charge of his Ministry? No point in talking of phantom drug peddlers this was clearly proven with evidence. Another instance Mangala provided enough material, to Macre and co for the next “killing fields” production under the auspices of the UNP at Siri kotha .
Now he has a charge sheet for the British parliamentarians , who I hope will press MS for libel and defamation in the near future.
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Javi / December 20, 2013
“”This shows that DMJ is not competent enough to remain as a PM.(-_-)”
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”,
Only two things count at all from hill to the sea
Part of it’s percentage, and the rest is guarantee.(^‿◕)
Isn’t it logical to say that the `Sinhala Buddhist Adminis`Trators`
for 64 years is the `CAUSE` of the pariah status.
Ceylon was respected property under the British Raj! (^o^)｡◕‿◕｡
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gamini / December 20, 2013
This stupid woman is thinking that Mangala will be slapped with a defamation suit by the British Parliamentarians after all it is they who revealed how they were paid by MR to attend the CHOGM. How small minds work?
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James Ingham / December 20, 2013
FOOL, IF EVERYONE SHOULD BE TAXED THEN TELL US IF ANY OF THE RAJAPAKSES HAVE A TAX FILE AND HAVE CONTRIBUTED TAX TO THE COFFERS? PRESIDENT’S OFFICIAL INCOME IS LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND A MONTH IF I AM RIGHT, THEN FOOL TELL US HOW HE AND HIS LOIN CLOTH CLAD FAMILY HAVE EARNED BILLIONS, BUILD HOTELS, BUY PROPERTY, INVESTING IN TAX HAVENS OVERSEAS?
WHY SHOULD THE MASSES ALONE PAY FOR THESE BASTARD TO LIVE A LIFE OF LUXURY AND MAKE BILLIONS ON TENDERS, MANIPULATING SHARES IN THE CSE, DRUGS AND SIPHON THESE FUNDS OUT?
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sarojini / December 21, 2013
This is all speculation .Is there conclusive evidence for what you are accusing the President . SL are renowned for misinformation ,gossip, hearsay . If you have any proof of what you are saying provide the addresses and the location of these houses allegedly acquired by the President and his family . By the way did you know that a monthly salary of a private Bank Manager is one lakh rupees in SL . Check this out if you are not sure . The Presidents salary in which case should be higher .
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Silva / December 19, 2013
Dinuk,
The worst rated [Edited out] sipping the cesspit orgy of the Madamulana [Edited out] , why don’t you bloody [Edited out] tell this to your “lie first” media rag run by Kallathoni Kili [Edited out]?
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Frodo / December 20, 2013
Mangy has exposed what no one else will ever do. The first place to do so is in Parliament. This is not by accident but is intended to go on the record in the Hansard. It is also done to shed light on matters that can then be raised in England in the British press and at Westminster by quoting from our own proceedings. If I were a fly on the wall in one of the many meetings the UNP holds in the country side I am sure all this and more does get mentioned in choice Sinhalese for the modeyas who bother to show up and listen. In a country where the entire press is bought and paid for by the thugs in charge, where any organization that is not bought off is destroyed or blocked there are very few avenues for the UNP or any other party to get the message out. Less criticizing and a bit more help can go along way. But I suppose for a country of back stabbers who never could put on a unified front I am day dreaming.
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Athula / December 19, 2013
Let us also talk of the gifts that were leaden on Valupillai Prabhkaran by Mr. Samaraweera. The challenges is still out for him to deny conveying an inordinate amount of money that perverted democracy and prevented his now bosom friend, Ranil Wickramasinghe from winning. Mangala is does all what is necessary for the master he serves at that time – and at the time he was Svengali to MR and no other. He manipulated and spun everything to make MR win and now he has become a victim of his own conspiracy. Oh, what a tangle web we weave….
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Peter / December 21, 2013
Athula – you’re right about that “tangled web”, but what is most important is that he tell us who gave all that money to VP and the story behind it.
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Lanka Liar / December 19, 2013
How much was paid to the Australian parliamentarians? Kamalesh Sharmaji? and to all corrupt nations that are with Sri Lanka
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Abhaya / December 19, 2013
then again you have won nothing with your big mouth .
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Andre / December 19, 2013
How much do they PAY for you, Abhaya ?
U have all along been on the apologetic mode. Perhaps ur air passage to lanka next, who knows.. ? then you may not need to another 8 yrs to come and see the country.. go ahead with your mission :( let the masses go in hunger, who cares, come and see the night races of offsprings and their acolytes.
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Liberal One / December 19, 2013
A man on a suicide mission. Any UNP politician who care about his/her political future would do good to steer away from this man as much as possible.
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G1 / December 20, 2013
“Any UNP politician who care about his/her political future”
Come on………. why are you picking on Mangy???
Don’t you think that UNP should kick that moron Sajith OUT First??? :-)
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Liberal One / December 20, 2013
Kind of yes, but for different reasons. Sajith is proving his selfishness and publicly criticizes the party leadership which has gone beyond tolerable limits. The man is overconfident and arrogant but he knows the boundary between been anti regime and anti sri lankan.
On the other hand Mangala is on a revengeful crusade against MR for whatever reasons they fell-out and is arrogantly prepared to support even worst of anti-srilankan elements just for the sake of been anti regime. He should not be allowed to steer UNP away from it’s original policies just so he can get at Mahinda.
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / December 19, 2013
My my, what politicians will do for the price of a business class ticket and a few days in a hotel! :D
And how much more they must be doing to fill their pockets with LTTE diaspora credit card scam and extortion cash :D :D
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gamini / December 20, 2013
David Blacker,
Why are you hiding behind Siva Sankaran’s Sarama? What happened to your Nandikadal Victory where VP helped MR to become the President, buried all his heavy artillery and abandoned his stronghold Kilinochchi to be massacred on the Beach front? Phew! What a War it was of thirty months where even VP also helped MR to hype, after boastfully declaring that if the Forces entered Kilinochchi that the A 9 will be a river of Blood. Have you not wondered why VP handed Kilinochchi to the Forces without shedding a drop of blood? So you want us to believe that there was fighting to secure less important places than Kilinochchi?
Further, although it was advertised VP was holding the Tamil civilians as a Human Shield, he allowed all to escape to the govt side? Why? The Americans and the Indians had VP fooled to serve him on a platter to MR to wipe off VP and his cadre of around forty thousand as by then VP had no way out.
By the way have you finished counting the Forces killed for the thirty months, from Jan 2007 to May 2009? Has the number even reached twenty five? Make sure you do not add the deaths prior to Jan 2007 to swell the numbers.
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Native Vedda / December 21, 2013
gamini
Please read following excerpt from Radio Times interview with John Snow:
Matthew Stadlen
6:41 AM, 16 December 2013
Jon Snow: “I’m really a reporter. I’m actually a rather poor presenter”. The Channel 4 News host says his real strength lies in bringing often harrowing world stories to viewers
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Snow is just back from covering the Commonwealth Conference in Sri Lanka. His film Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields was nominated for a Bafta and Channel 4 News has focused attention on the atrocities allegedly carried out against the Tamil population.
The programme had been denied entry to the country for more than four years. They were only re-admitted because, Snow says, it’s a condition of hosting a Commonwealth Conference that journalists are given visas.
“It was eerie. I’ve never been in a place where we have, so specifically, been declared the enemy.
We were actually described as Tamil Tigers. It wasn’t that I thought we really stood any danger from the state. I worried that once we were declared the enemy, some freelancer might just knock us off. You have car accidents…” The team returned home safely but they were tailed wherever they went. “There were visitations to rooms by thick-set security people.”
Snow describes Channel 4’s coverage of events in Sri Lanka as a “serious journalistic attempt to put the record straight and to bring about justice. That can be done within the journalistic norms, and has been.” He disputes that it amounted to campaigning, although he accepts “there are truths that you pursue which, in their pursuit, do certainly have the appearance of, and the commitment of, a campaign.”
Snow’s documentary did not spare the viewer the horrors of war. Even so, he’s seen things most of us never will. “Particularly with Sri Lanka, there’s an awful lot we’ve never been able to put out.” Have these pictures scarred him? “No, it’s not the images. It’s actually seeing it in the raw.”
He finds it very easy to cry. “I think you do have to – not on camera – but you need to allow your emotions to deal with what you’re looking at. It never revisits me. I never dream about it. This time round I came as near completely convulsing in grief as I’ve ever been because this extraordinary tidal wave of women, weeping and screaming, besieged us in Jaffna. There may have been activists pushing it along, but it happened – and the effect on me was very, very hard.”
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-12-16/jon-snow-im-really-a-reporter-im-actually-a-rather-poor-presenter
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gamini / December 19, 2013
Nonis Monis’s [Edited out] also exposed. Bloody Hell!
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Saman Wijesiri / December 19, 2013
Mangala is not my favourite politician. But to give the devil his due, He is the only UNP MP bold enough to take the Rajapaksa regime bull by the horns!
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punchinilame / December 19, 2013
It is high time all Foreign Ministers of the 53 CW countries request
Kamalesh Sharma to publicly deny the charges or consider resigning in
the interest of CW values. Will he do it???
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kris / December 20, 2013
When awamangala was in power he did the same thing on behalf of Rajapakse family now crying harder , this is what will happen to every politition when he lost his power
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gamini / December 20, 2013
Kris, cut that hypocrisy off. When Mangala worked for MR, you buggers adored him. Now he has become Awamangala to you buggers for exposing MR. Mangala now is paying penance for what he did to Ranil then.
Wisdom has dawned for some like Mangala and has not for others like you. Sad but true.
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Bandu de Silva / December 20, 2013
I do not have much respect for what Mangala Samaraweera says often. But here is some serious matter which is not only scandalous but exposes this CHOGUM affair.”Ohoma yamu”! The country will prosper.
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srilal / December 20, 2013
Bandu de Silva ,
” I do not have much respect for what Mangala Samaraweera says often.”
It is true that MS has been a dubious character in the past , but now the man is in opposition for whatever reasons , he is only few of the fearless MPs who are brave enough to challenge the mighty pakses (including gota) , it is difficult to find an instance where MS has accused pakses without any solid evidence/reference , MS knows very well , that pakses are after him , thus he always made sure to have enough ammunition to back up any of allegations .no one can dismiss MS’s statements/accusations as mere hearsays or gossips as they always carry great deal of substances.
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JR / December 20, 2013
It is better to have person like mangala samaraweera in the unp party.
even though he is new to the unp party, he work for the betterment of the party.
it is very important to understand that most of the trouble makers in the unp have come from south.(dakune kattiya)
At least that mangala samaraweera is doing the job what sajith premadasa supposed to do. mangala is much more decent politician than sajith.where ever he goes,to whome he work for he stand shoulder to shoulder with him or her.
at least he has guts to release those top-secret info at the parliament. That means lots of SLFP MPs are leaking gov secrets to the opposition.
it is 100 times better to have mangala than sajith.
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K.A Sumanasekera / December 20, 2013
Surely the Reverened and Surendran cant serve Ulundu Vaddai and Sambar to Cameron and Haig entourage when they visit to watch C4 episodes.
With Caterers in London charging anything upwards from 80 bucks per head for even finger food and the grog at the top end of town , each invoice must be at least four times the piddly 3000 pounds that Maggie is harping about.
And add the pounds which the Diaspora pumps into both Tory and Labour Coffers ever year it is becoming serious money, which will be hard to match.
This Mangalan trying to make his loyal supporters believe that Sinhala Buddhists are in the same league as oil sheiks and big corporations is a joke..
Doesn’t this guy represent the same party which wanted to give the whole of Galle Face Green to Foreigners for next to nothing?.
Where would Mr Muzamil’s people gather ,if Ranil and his mates pulled it off?.
Didn’t they in fact give the Water’s Edge for next to nothing?.
Can the current UNP ever win the majority of the inhabitant population with this kind of bullshit?..
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Native Vedda / December 21, 2013
K.A Sumanasekera
“Can the current UNP ever win the majority of the inhabitant population with this kind of bullshit?..”
If UNP makes an offer the majority of the inhabitant population can’t refuse, it would be an walkover.
Let the UNP offer free Ulundu Vaddai for each of the inhabitant for the rest of his/her life.
You will be the first to vote for UNP.
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K.A Sumanasekera / December 21, 2013
Dear Native,
My Elders tell me that Ranil offered them 22 Karat Bracelets and Mobile Phones, but they never believed him..And that was when their Per Capita was not even a grand ….
Perhaps Ulundu Vaddai and Coconut Chutney as the Entree and Iddli and Sambar as the main will be more tempting and more realistic.
Why don’t you suggest it to Vellala mate Ranil , through your fellow compadre Aussie Dobby….
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nalin perera / December 20, 2013
Mangala SamaraWeera has the guts to come out with the realty and what he uttered in Parliament has been published in London media.Before all these there was Mr Fox affair and his love affair in SriLanka AND HIS UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR MR regime RESULTED IN HIS EXPULSION from conservative party before uk elections.
Also another corrupt practice news is that the
MR regime has bought over the present Indian defence secretary Shive Shangar Menon, His assistant Mathai, NK narayanan who have been provided with SriLanakan women and other gifts during their stay when ever they visit under the pretense of talks with MR regime.These top officials are corrupted to the maximum and MR regime is very good in buying these Indian rascalS knowing their corrupt practices.
What a shame for Australian PM Tony abbott and his Foreign minister Julie Bishop to have fallen into this trap of corrupt practice.
It’s evident now that this practice has paid some favorable outcomes but has been caught out at last.
SHAME SHAME
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sarojini / December 20, 2013
Isn’t it funny when people who speak or support the MR Government have all been bought up . No one ever says that LTTE supporters or anti Government spokes persons have been bought UP . MS accuses even Lord Naseby a very respectable gentleman who cannot be bought over . Mangala will get into very serious trouble one of these days because of his ugly mouth . This fashion guru has his knickers in a twist!
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sarojini / December 21, 2013
Nalin, Liam Fox is now a spokesperson for the Tamil Diaspora , He is in the TGTE . This is official.
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Ranga Perera / December 20, 2013
Every politician has his or her own faults, some greater
than the others. In my view there is hardly an exception.
What is great about Mangala Samaraweera is that he has
the balls or the guts to speak out forcefully. Perhaps
for people like Sarojini (above) knickers are more
important and should never be twisted.
She has evidently not read what MS has said. To make her
comprehend, let me re-state – he says that British MPs
(whose worthy standards we follow) have taken money and
air tickets to come to Sri Lanka many many times. If you
do not want to call it “buying,” call it by any other
name. Don’t bring your knickers into this Sarojini.The
issue is stinking enough.
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Native Vedda / December 21, 2013
Ranga Perera
Please bear with me I am bit thick.
How did Lord Naseby end up in Sarojini’s twisted stinking knickers?
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gamini / December 21, 2013
Native,
So Sarojini is Knickerless(Nicholas) and free wheeling, having given her twisted knickers to the Conservative MPs supporting MR? No wonder her discharges here are offensive.
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james / December 20, 2013
to silence this & other ass wipe all MR has to do is offer a ministral post
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T Wickramaratna / December 21, 2013
sinhalaya modaya – This alone is enough to prove that trying to educate the sinhalaya is like poring water on a ducks back
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kautilya / December 21, 2013
There can be a high profile killing in next year on the eve of Southern Provincial Council election.I won’t rule out Mangala as he is topping the hit list.
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The Professional / December 22, 2013
Staying in power and Staying power are two issues that need to be resolved, if one wants to have a stable government with unscrupulous politicians.
MS appears to have forgotten that UPA of CBK wanted to stay in power but the staying power was with the UNP backed by fund managers led by barons of business including new rich barons of garment trade. Some politicos of CBK government, who had lost staying power, seeing the staying power of the UNP crossed the floor. When they saw the staying power of MR they crossed the floor again. Now everybody in MR’s government has enough staying power to last even in the next birth, they will do anything to stay in power.
He has also forgotten that he was the person who gave “official concubine status” to a Film Actress in his Foreign Ministry to increase the staying power of someone not of his choice.
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Darlin Silva / December 23, 2013
It was Mangala Samaraweera who introduced that doctrine to the Rajapakshe family, when Mangala was the campaign manager during the 2005 presidential elections. That was how Mngala Samarawweera helped Rajapaksha family, with the help of Tiran Alles, buy over LTTE leader Prabhakaran and prevented majority of the tamil community voting at the 2005 presidential elections.
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Dawn Dale / December 30, 2013
What an idiotic speech.. we knew that LTTE rump was funding UK ministers and now we find our government is doing the same rather more inaptly it seems th’ to be exposed so quickly…..
why do Sri Lankans care so much for these UK ministers who have only made trouble for SL from well you know when. as for bribing Sharma – if a person behave with proper protocol that has to mean he was bribed ? amazing how we think ? CHOGUM was not the forum to bring out bi-lateral issues of the host country.
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