The real UNP expose that was needed

By Rajpal Abeynayake

(May 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Today, the Lakbima News newspaper breaks the story of the gathering perception among disgruntled former UNP MPs and other notables, that the UNP is being run by an impenetrable — no pun intended - decadent club of gays (homosexuals).

Decadent, because there is nothing inherently decadent about homosexuality among consenting adults, but decadent because in this current UNP set-up, it seems increasingly clear that key positions and perhaps party nominations etc., are doled out on the basis of homosexual ties. (..and to think we feared old school ties were bad...)

Remotely homophobic

Before anybody runs away with any ideas, let it be clear that nobody in this newspaper is remotely homophobic. At the risk of repetition, let it be stressed that homosexuality between consenting adults, in our book, is strictly the business of such consenting adults.

Leave aside advocating a gay lynch mob, we here at this newspaper would say, be more sympathetic to gay people, and afford gay couples - - if there are any who are so ‘outed’ in this conservative society —- all the rights that are afforded to heterosexual ones.

The story about the UNP is much larger than that however, and much more different.
In our accompanying story, we have named names of several UNP and ex UNP notables who say in no uncertain terms that the UNP today is in the main being run by homosexuals for homosexuals.

Party positions are doled out on the basis of homosexual ties - - and though this is something we had got wind of for a long time — it is the first time in Sri Lankan society that this position has been officially media ‘outed’’, and for good reason.

Three cheers then for that.

This situation in the UNP is no more and no less egregious than company CEOs promoting ladies they sleep with, overnight so to speak, to key company positions.

If that was done, particularly in government, other employees who are aggrieved due to such favouritism would be in a position to sue, and win in Court.

It is particularly galling that when there is so much media attention these days on the so called need for reforms in the UNP after the party has suffered the worst of serial defeats under its current leader, that nobody gets to the kernel of the problem that lies with the UNP’s collapse.

Today, homosexual outsiders, shall we say sleeping partners of the party’s so and so and other so and so’s, are pulling the strings in the UNP, and key positions and shadow positions that have a crucial bearing on party management, go to these sleeping partners.

The following observation is not to be crude about it — but to paint a correct picture: let it be said that today, if you are young, a mere boy, and a tad fair too, you would stand a chance of being nominated on the UNP list over the heads of a host of party seniors and notables.

When somebody says that a bunch of Colombo boys - - a great many of them from a top-drawer Colombo school - - are now running, nay ruining the UNP, as if it was a club that offers gay massages and gay saunas by the seaside, it’s the unvarnished truth.

UNP gay nexus

If a club offers gay saunas and gay massages, it stands to reason that the club’s office bearers are selected from within the gay community; there is no point trying to position square pegs in round holes.

But what if that club is the United National Party, the oldest political party in the country, which had been in power for longer than any other party in this country since independence, accounting for countless numbers of prime ministers and three executive presidents?

I think this UNP gay nexus, in this light, is pathetic and nauseating, a slap on the notions of meritocracy and hard work, which takes the back-slapping buddy system of exclusion on the basis of cabal membership to a new nadir.

It is an abomination that this state of affairs is being perpetuated with impunity by the current UNP leadership cabal.

Though we are not homophobes, it has to be said that apart from the gross injustice done to capable others in the UNP, this system of gay networking that qualifies various nefarious runts to run the UNP, is as sleazy as a cheap gay bar operating out of some hippie hang-out, and as sordid as unprotected penetrative closet gay buggery.

But make no mistake, the gay networkers that run the UNP are ‘closet’ to the point of leading sick double lives: they are often married, though not always, and are often probably ‘homophobic’, a deep cover for their closet gay lives.
The closet gay tendency of the UNP leadership is so pronounced that some boys, yes, let the stress be on ‘boys’’’, who are probably not gay even, have a much greater chance in today’s UNP than other older folks, because the UNP leadership is so gay-centric that the leadership would rather surround itself with boys, boys and more boys.

Peopled with youth

We are kidding you not. From Matara district to Galle to Colombo and beyond, the UNP list is peopled with youth, barely out of school or higher educational institutions. There are the Pathiranas the Nanayakkaras the Senasinghes, the Kariyawasams, the list almost being endless.

Of course not all of these are gays -- at least we hope not. But its not coincidence that there is an accent on youth activity and youth representation in the UNP today which would have been much admirable if not for the sinister motives that cloak all this so called pro-activism on behalf of the young newbies.
We repeat that not every young boy, ok young man, on the UNP list is gay; well, probably not.

But having said that, the fact that the UNP is run by the sordid gay club is beyond any reasonable doubt.

There are real closet gays who run the UNP - - and some out of closet gays figure in this combination too.

Let us just say sans any crudity,

but in the interests of the facts, that it is not a coincidence that the fairer complexioned, the ‘youthful’ and the more often effeminate are at the helm of the UNP inner circle that runs the party.

We in this newspaper wouldn’t have given it a second thought - - each to his own we would say, and god for all — but for the fact that this insidious gay penetration is ruining any chances for a viable strong and credible Sri Lankan opposition, as it keeps capable young men and women and real leaders out of the front gate of the strongest political party that’s left as an alternative to the governing monolith of the SLFP.

Strange, but the rest of the straight UNP is impotent in the face of this affront, proving once and for all that the pouf cliche is often misplaced on gay people.