{"id":95853,"date":"2019-11-30T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95853"},"modified":"2019-11-30T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T23:29:21","slug":"assault-on-sinhalese-loses-over-100000-votes-for-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/30\/assault-on-sinhalese-loses-over-100000-votes-for-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault on Sinhalese loses over 100000 votes for Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Ivan Amarasinghe Northampton<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Mr Corbyn,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You and your Deputy Leader&#8217;s unwarranted and intentional\ndefamation of the Sri Lankan State and the Sinhala people as some kind of\nmonsters intent on genocide of the Tamil people has cost your party over 100000\nvotes in the UK; and quite rightly so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can only take so much of your false allegations and intentional\npolitically motivated spin doctoring done to appease the LTTE diaspora. The\nSinhala people have now communicated on the social media and decided that we\ncan no longer vote for a Party which tells blatant lies about us and our roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need not write a lengthy letter of facts and figures as you and\nyour party henchmen&nbsp; know all that but willingly apportion blame on the\ninnocent Sinhala people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why you would tell lies for Tamil votes is something the Labour\nParty will repent henceforth. I used to be a Polling Agent for the LabourParty\nsince 1978. But enough is enough. All my family and friends have no choice but\nto vote against those who spread lies and empower themselves through false\nslanders of innocent Asian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivan Amarasinghe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northampton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Amarasinghe Northampton Mr Corbyn, You and your Deputy Leader&#8217;s unwarranted and intentional defamation of the Sri Lankan State and the Sinhala people as some kind of monsters intent on genocide of the Tamil people has cost your party over 100000 votes in the UK; and quite rightly so. We can only take so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95853","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=95853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}