Amateurishness of govt. exposed!

The unpredictable ‘Leader of the free world’, through his actions dictated by the obsession to ‘Make America Great Again’, keeps us constantly reminded that we live in uncertain times; teetering on a global economic collapse, even the prospect of a third world war being not that a distant possibility.

- By Dr Uput WIJAYAWARDHANA

Meanwhile, across the ‘Pond’, His Majesty's government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, once a great power beyond compare, is struggling and characterising itself with a multitude of U-turns. Political commentators are stunned as the Labour government was elected, a year ago, with a landslide winning 411 seats out of 650 in the British parjiament. Sri Lanka, with a great ancient civilisation being its only claim to greatness, too, elected a government with a massive majority, six months after the British election. Though both governments have amply demonstrated amateurishness, one would have expected the Labour government in the UK to do better for one very important reason: Keir Starmer was the Leader of the Opposition and he was supported by a Shadow Cabinet in the opposition, unlike Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his team. Therefore, Labour should have been able to run the government better.