The David Cameron “Walk Out”: The refusal to speak as political action
- 22 NOVEMBER 2013
- BY VIHANGA PERERA
The refusal to interact should not be marked as a simple act of “cowardice”. This would be the misreading of a self-congratulatory Sri Lankan press and polity; for David Cameron and the UK — unlike what Muttiah Muralitharan claims — have NOT “misread” the ground situation in Sri Lanka. Cameron had a right not to co-operate to a journalistic lobby. It is a choice granted to him by the democratic codes that govern social play. The watchdogs of the (sic) “nation” who ram Cameron for his “walk out” are merely “upset” that their stocked vent was not spent. It should not be mistaken with “absence of democracy” on Cameron’s part.
