{"id":115331,"date":"2013-11-20T02:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=115331"},"modified":"2013-11-29T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T20:26:09","slug":"sri-lankan-govt-media-calls-british-pm-buffoon-a-bumbling-boor-and-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-govt-media-calls-british-pm-buffoon-a-bumbling-boor-and-bully\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Govt Media Calls British PM Buffoon, A Bumbling Boor And Bully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s state media has referred to British Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=David+Cameron&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">David Cameron<\/span><\/a> as a buffoon, a boor and a bully, after he issued an ultimatum about a war crimes probe against the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Government\u2019s flagship English Daily, the Daily News in its editorial yesterday said nothing short of a full apology was required from Cameron \u201cfor being, in short, the total unmitigated boor on his recent trip to Sri Lanka to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92717\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/media-computer-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92717\" class=\" wp-image-92717 \" alt=\"A free Laptop from President to Daily News Editor Rajpal Abeynayake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/media-computer-01.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/media-computer-01.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/media-computer-01-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A free Laptop from President to Daily News Editor Rajpal Abeynayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe disrespect was palpable, but what stood out was the exceptional boorishness. From the time he landed on Sri Lankan soil, the Prime Minister played the Imperial blunderbuss. May be he didn\u2019t have to play the role &#8212; being a Tory of the Bullingdon set, perhaps immaturity and entitlement-oriented behaviour comes naturally to him,\u201d Daily News Editor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rajpal+Abeynayake&amp;x=10&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rajpal Abeynayake<\/span><\/a>\u00a0said in his editorial that have been obnoxiously critical of Government dissidents in the recent past.<\/p>\n<p>The state daily said that Cameron had engaged in petty politicking during his visit and issued an ultimatum against his host head of state without \u201ca modicum of respect for the fact that the best hospitality was afforded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many ways if his buffoonish behaviour did not have such far reaching implications, possibly, it would have been hilarious,\u201d the deeply insulting editorial said of the British Premier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the problem was that this is the Prime Minister of Britain, and though the gentlemen cannot possibly help but be the regular bumbling boor, the office he holds has ensured that he has alienated a great many Sri Lankans. An unqualified apology is in order, and we expect one to be dispatched from 10 Downing Street as soon as possible, under Prime Ministerial seal,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":92717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan Govt Media Calls British PM Buffoon, A Bumbling Boor And Bully - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-govt-media-calls-british-pm-buffoon-a-bumbling-boor-and-bully\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sri Lankan Govt Media Calls British PM Buffoon, A Bumbling Boor And Bully - 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