Tag: Brexit vote

At the end of 2017, we in Sri Lanka have rather little to report to the world if it is progress that we are reporting on to the world. In 2015 there was great hope but rather like the post Brexit vote in the United Kingdom the events after the amazing have caused consternation and confusion - leaving the situation to pose the question if indeed we are better off now than we were pre 2015. It appears that we have exchange a harsh regime of a virtual police state where everything was interfered with - and fixed by the government who had fortuitously purchased their mandate in parliament by the expedient method of buying support from a motley collection of politicians interested only in the potential for deal making rather than in serving the demands of democracy. We appear to have exch...