About the middle of last year and just prior to his death Rohan Wijeratne,son of late General Ranjan Wijeratne gave an interview to the Island Newspapers titled ‘Without a change in the leadership, the Jumbos would not have a hope in hell to win any election’. He was proved correct as when the Presidential Election were concluded the jumbos could only garner 40 % of the vote. However at the General Elections that followed thereafter, the party was hit by a tsunami and recorded only 29% of the vote--- the lowest in the party’s history. 

The analysis is simple, the walking disaster is the party leader who has managed to incur 19 consecutive defeats and would have achieved a dubious distinction of a place in the Guinness Book of Records. He has portrayed himself and thereby the party as a traitor and quisling, even blatantly insisting in India that our Armed forces be investigated for war crimes. His greatest act of treachery was the signing of the CFA with the connivance of the now sidelined Eric Solheim and other Western leaders who were trying to save the LTTE. During the recent election campaign his performance could be compared to a Vaudeville comedy. His appearance on TV ads was hilarious. Donning a 70s style punk rocker colourful hair style, his utterances of   Poda! Poda made his ‘leadership’ to be a journey from the sublime to the ridiculous!  Ultimately the electorate gave him the final Poda! He came over as an inept leader with no direction. In contrast HE Mahinda Rajapakshe's personality was an effusive change of patriotism, strong leadership and manly traits. This has been endorsed by Hon Dayasiri Jayasekera MP who recommends that such a personality should now lead the party to regain it's salvation. Ignoring the basics in Marketing and political tradition he unilaterally changed the great party symbol of the Elephant to that of a pathetic Swan, and co-habituated with parties and their terrorist’s principals who destroyed  the party's patriotic leaders. This led to his party’s Swan Song. Desperately he restored the Elephant symbol but it was a dollar short and a day late. He and his lieutenants Pamankade Ravi, Mangala Gay, Pissu Tissa (the failed prodigy of late Gen Ranjan Wijeratne) and modaya Kirialle poured scorn on the victorious Armed Forces. Even to date they have not apologised for their stupidity. Other than Pissu Tissa the imports to the Party are  responsible for putting the Party in the dock. According to Hon Sajith Premadasa and the country’s patriots this was a principle cause for the debacles. Thereafter swarms of party faithful either left the party and voted and worked for the Government, or abstained from voting altogether for a disgraced leader. Under the current leader this once great patriotic party has NOW earned a vile reputation of being a treacherous anti-national entity, and being servile to Western Powers. One need not be a rocket scientist to analyse the cause for the extraordinary defeats -- it is due to his impotent leadership and not knowing when to leave when one is not wanted anymore either by the Party or the Electorate. Even the traditional Media supporters of the party, The Leader and the Daily Mirror have firmly recommended a change of leadership for the party’s survival..   Even the MAHARAJA ORGANISATION in their daily News First program  keeps plugging the gentlemanly exit that Gordon Brown took to his rejection by the British People! The best warning that one can give this cantankerous leader is for him to follow Gordon Brown’s response and regain some of the decent ethics that he is supposed to posses?

Our late Heroes Major-Generals Lucky Algama and Janaka Perera sacrificed their lives, not on the battle field, but in a vain attempt to restore a great party to a once vibrant patriotic origin. In the end he even tempted a war hero to become a disgraced politician. 

The Winter of discontent is fast approaching the UNP. The young Turks are finally waking up from their hibernation. The election for a new leader is being demanded instead of superficial changes that has followed the numerous defeats, with negative results. The ex- party stalwarts and the diehards are anxiously waiting for a Phoenix to rise from the ashes so that they can once again return to the fold.. The only obstacle left is for the present party members to inject some Calcium in to their cowardly and sagging spines and overcome the undemocratic measures taken by the leader to save his soul, by implanting quislings in to vital sections and amending the constitution and moving the goal posts whenever he is pushed into a tight corner. This is the only success that the leader has achieved so far! Otherwise it will be time for the holding of the last rites, as more stalwarts will exit the party. Go on! Say the words of Oliver Cromwell ‘ You have been sat too long here for any good that you have been doing. Depart I say and let us have done with you. In the name of God---GO!’