lankabusinessonline.com,  Thu Feb  1 22:05:12 EST 2007

    February 02 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's 54-member jumbo cabinet is causing logistical headaches for parliamentary staff, with senior members who crossed over from the United National Party, being entititled to the available meeting rooms officials said.Perks for each cabinet minister include an office space in the parliament complex, but the facility only has about three dozen ministerial offices.

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Soon we will be working at Singaporean Efficiency rates because of the expanded Cabinet. It will also solve the unemployment problem as the MR government PARANOID about the OLD SLFP loyalists hire the rejects and discards like GL, MH Mohammed to sustain his jokercracy.

The only good thing is his Brother GOtabaya who has brought American style efficiency.

MR will be a bigger joke than PRemedasa at this rate of expansion. But JR must be blamed for his constitution.

We will soon be giving AID to India, Singapore and USA as well.  

Imagine how many Range Rovers Basil and Sajin will import via Third party dealers.  


MIHIN AIR, and now BASIL AIR

 

Gone are the days that Cabinet Ministers are exclusive.... Now it's better to be a MP as there are only few of them.

     

How many cards do we have in a standard pack?

There should be 2 jokers and 4x13 cards.

This time, we got a pack of all jokers.

But, then, think about the citizens of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.  They should be the worst jokers.

We had Ministers without any portfolio in the past.

Now, we can even have Ministers without MP position!

This action is a public display of political insecurity and blatant disregard for public funds at the interest of the desire to maintain majority in the parliament.  It is not only a joke but a tragedy Sri Lanka has been going through again and again such shameful experiences.  Now there is huge cabinet and they did not even have a place to meet and ministers have no offices.  This also shows how desperate this action has been not seeing even practical and logistical consequences, not to forget possible increase of security personnel for each member of the cabinet.  I agree with the comment above that all the voters who have elected these politicians have also become intrinsic part of this joke.  As a matter of policy, could public should stop re-electing all the MPs who jump from one side to the other?  Can such political boldness and public action possible in Sri Lanka?

S Liyanage
Geneva

Having such a huge cabinet (and its attendant difficulties and confusions) is hardly a demonstration of US-style efficiency. The fact is that MR (and GR and BR) has "staying in power" as his one and only goal. Given the parlous state of the economy, the crumbling infrastructure, the rampant corruption, the hardships that have worsened for everyone in the country in just 1 MR year, they are well aware that if a just and fair election were held today their party would be discarded like yesterday's news. So they resort to a sordid game of political musical chairs and got some takers, some well-intentioned and some sleazeballs who'll go anywhere for a rupee and a little power. The UNP may be politically disorganized but they are the ONLY party to have actually demonstrated a consistent capability to develop the economy of our forsaken country.

sliyanage wrote:

I agree with the comment above that all the voters who have elected these politicians have also become intrinsic part of this joke.  As a matter of policy, could public should stop re-electing all the MPs who jump from one side to the other?  Can such political boldness and public action possible in Sri Lanka?

S Liyanage
Geneva

This is must be the start of end to MR..
- renting luxury vehicles  to all ministers(!) @ 3 lahks per car
- new buildings / posts and positions and additional security
- Additional unwanted huge bills and room for more corruptions
- " i am shame to be a minister in this government" -  sipathy sooriyrachi
- " i am shame to be a minister in this government " - mithribala senanyke,
- " i am shame to be a minister in this government"  - raful hakeem
… list will goes as most of the ministers already feel the shame with in their back yards..
(all holding proud ministers posts within MR bonus ministers schemes )
-100% voters have no choice but to survive with the bad economics and incoming new burdens..
Mangala Samaraweera already planning and hinted that he will go away with number of high profile ministers to found another party or join with .. ???

On top, what is the advantage that MR going to have the majority number of seats ??
we all knows that " ... are ... !! " and now they are in visible experiments.
MR : Mirror of Rubbish !!!