{"id":65809,"date":"2017-05-04T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=65809"},"modified":"2017-05-04T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:25:05","slug":"you-cant-drink-costa-coffee-and-be-working-classtory-mp-news-item-in-uk-independent-daily-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/05\/04\/you-cant-drink-costa-coffee-and-be-working-classtory-mp-news-item-in-uk-independent-daily-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"You can,t drink COSTA COFFEE and be working Class\u2026Tory MP News Item in UK Independent Daily Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Well .I just read t statement from a conservative MP<\/p>\n<p>It immediately reminds me of Sri Lanka with our newly sprung\u00a0\u00a0 Barista \u00a0coffee .El Gilato Ice Cream Shops ,Coffee Bean \u00a0,Jeans Coffee, Doughnut \u00a0\u00a0shops \u00a0etc .We have a majority working class who cannot even afford to buy a lunch packet at 150 to 200 rupees and when you walk into any of above Coffee shops .you may at least pay 350 Rs for a coffee or 450 Rs for a sandwich<\/p>\n<p>If you ask for our famous cup of tea they will give you a cup of hot water with a bag of Tea Dust and cold container of milk ! Utter disrespect to out indigenous product!!<\/p>\n<p>We still boast about Colombo which was made beautiful by previous regime , with Refurbished Dutch Hospital.Independent Square ,Race Course etc where 90 % of our population cannot even dream of entering<\/p>\n<p>Kaema Suthra ,s hoppers is advertised but you pay 5 time for a horrible hopper with Lunu Miris crushed in from of you on a Miris Gala\u201d .with such a flamboyance !<\/p>\n<p>You go to Ministry of Crabs and spend over 15000 minimum for 2 persons .<\/p>\n<p>Our people including MP,s and Ministers spend 30-40 million rupees for one car where he could have built 40 houses for poor .<\/p>\n<p>You drive through Colombo 15 ,Sedawatta,Kelany Valley ( funny enough this is the constituent of our Minister of Finance !) where you hardly see a Barista  except one McDonalds ( catering for ship staff who come to harbour)<\/p>\n<p>We need a balanced approach to economy .Building highways are fine ,but we have to address the main issue .People need houses and industries\u2019 or large scale farming to develop the country .<\/p>\n<p>( I heard few years back about a minister asking for 50m $ from a Middle eastern investor who wanted to establish a mega scale farm in the East with over 500 m$ investment ..They bolted away !\u00a0 )<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam never had \u00a0any of them but now they develop according to quasi socialist system .<\/p>\n<p>As JVP said in their May Day rally ,we need a regime change .It should be a regime with a benevolent dictator who feels the pulse of poor .<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 Well .I just read t statement from a conservative MP It immediately reminds me of Sri Lanka with our newly sprung\u00a0\u00a0 Barista \u00a0coffee .El Gilato Ice Cream Shops ,Coffee Bean \u00a0,Jeans Coffee, Doughnut \u00a0\u00a0shops \u00a0etc .We have a majority working class who cannot even afford to buy a lunch packet at 150 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}