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Sri Lanka Cabinet downsized
Tuesday, 1 April 2008 - 3:58 AM SL Time
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In view of the soaring Cost of Living and defence expenditure, the government has decided to chisel down the Cabinet of Ministers to 35, informed sources told The Island yesterday.
Among the those to be stripped of their Cabinet portfolios are five MPs from the main Opposition Party who joined the Government.
Sources said that tension had arisen in the Cabinet as none of the Ministers were aware of what fate awaited them and who would have to pay the sacrifice that the government had decided to make to cut down on the cost of maintaining its Jumbo Cabinet.
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Karunawardana
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 1 Apr 2008 07:49:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Will never happen. They will have the same portfolios under different names. (State Ministers, Senior Ministers, Distrcit ministers etc.etc) |
DrJones
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 1 Apr 2008 08:15:15 GMT Report for Abuse
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The term 'The size of the cabinet' is misleading when we have a countless number of deputies and non-cabinet bandits lining their pockets from public money. The only, only reliable/acceptable indicator is how many of these thugs are leeching the public purse, including all types of cabinet, non-cabinet and deputy vermin.
'Pruning the cabinet' means nothing at all. Tell me I am wrong on this.
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alwaysalion
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 1 Apr 2008 14:01:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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The big cabinet cut down to a compact size.Good!
Hope the bad ones are weeded out.
Now for some progress! |
gamiya
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 1 Apr 2008 18:19:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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It's wonderful to go to the Pre-1977 cabinet size but then we also have to go to the pre-1977 election system (first past the post, British system).
It is impossible to Reduce the cabinet size while hanging on to the JR-Traitor Ranil Propotional Representation system of elections.
Only Prabhakaran and Traitor Ranil will benefit by such a move.
Govt. is nuts if they think they can reduce the cabinet size while hanging on to the PR system.
Hope this is an April Fool's joke.
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aruma
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 1 Apr 2008 21:24:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lanka Cabinet downsized
The Sinhala & Tamil New Year Gift hamper for the country.
Thank you Mahinda Maama!!
But this 'marvelous' news came on a very bad day....on April Fool's day.
Can we expect more presents in the near future???
Edited By - aruma - 1 Apr 2008 21:29:16 GMT |
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