Sri Lanka, Aug. 9 -- This takes time to sink in. The people have spoken with a two-thirds majority. This super-majority says so many things, but most of all it underscores that the people of Sri Lanka are nationalists. Simply, almost simplistically put, the people of this country love the other people of this country. Nationalism is about people - all of them, barring none.

Five years of anti-national skulduggery has come back to haunt the perpetrators to a point where they will rue the day they got elected in 2015.

Ranil Wickremesinghe is home, unless he smuggles himself into Parliament with the one National List seat won by the UNP.

The people have sent a thundering report, and that's not just by way of a two-thirds. It's by the way ...