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Time to drain the swamp……… The opportunity to make significant change in Sri Lanka’s political, economic and governance landscape! – By Aubrey Joachim If one thing has come out of the Donald Trump playbook it’s the political clichés that he has come up with. Some of these fit well into the Sri Lankan political context. One that is most apt at this point – with parliamentary elections around the corner – is ‘drain the swamp’. The slight modification might be replacing ‘swamp’ with ‘cess-pit’! Three weeks after the Presidential election opinions are still divided. While the victors are going about their business as best as can be expected in the short elapsed time and limited ministers, the vanquished are still licking their wounds. However, they do not seem to have learnt the lessons that their vile stories, falsehoods and misinformation regarding the victor taught them leading into the election. They ...