Sri Lanka, Jan. 5 -- The United National Party is in a vegetative state, on virtual life support, and the irony is that the UNP's politicians are capable of talking about only one thing these days, which is the price of vegetables. And yes, sometimes, rice.
A party that impoverished families with prohibitive taxes, and stultified the economy with ever reducing growth rates, is now making a hue and a cry about the prices of a few items of veggies that shot up due to sudden flood conditions.
But the big bluff is over. The game is up. Today, not even the cat-that-got-the-cream smirk of Eran Wickremeratne, or the teeth gnashing, chest thumping howls of Harin Fernando can quite gloss over the fact that the UNP as it is constituted at present, ...