{"id":41206,"date":"2015-05-08T02:49:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T06:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41206"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:32:28","slug":"sri-lanka-born-ranil-jayawardena-elected-to-uk-parliament-from-north-east-hampshire-constituency-with-35573-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=41206","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Jayawardena of Sri Lanka Origin Elected to UK Parliament from North East Hampshire Constituency with 35,573 Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ranil Jayawardena(29)of Sri Lanka Origin was elected to UK Parliament from the North East Hampshire Constituency at the 2015 UK Elections.<\/p>\n

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Jayawardena polled nearly two thirds of the valid votes in the constituency. He received 35,573 votes, which is 65.9 percent of the total valid votes.<\/p>\n

His closest rival, Graham Cockarill of the Liberal Democratic Party received only 5657 votes.<\/p>\n

North East Hampshire is considered an ultra-safe conservative seat.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nJayawardena came to the limelight several days ago after a video was released showing a rival candidate threatening to kill him. The candidate, Robert Blay of the United Kingdom Independent Party was suspended from the party. However he received 4,732 votes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the two other candidates with Sri Lankan ancestry have failed to win their constituencies. Chamali Fernando of Conservative Party came only third in Cambridge constituency and Uma Kumaran came second at Harrow East.<\/p>\n

UKIP’s Robert Blay suspended for threatening to shoot North East Hampshire Tory rival Ranil Jayawardena<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Russell Myers , Lee Sorrell <\/em><\/p>\n

The UKIP parliamentary candidate for North East Hampshire has been suspended from the party after undercover Daily Mirror investigators filmed him threatening to shoot his Tory rival.<\/p>\n

Former bank accountant Robert Blay, 55 – who used to be a member of the Conservative Party – made the shocking comment against Ranil Jayawardena.<\/p>\n

Mr Jayawardena, the deputy leader of Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council, was selected to replace current MP James Arbuthnot as the Tory candidate for North East Hampshire following an open primary held in November 2013.<\/p>\n

Mr Blay told the Mirror reporter that Mr Jayawardena had been tipped to potentially be the country\u2019s first British Asian prime minister, adding: “If this lad turns up to be our prime minister, I will personally put a bullet in him. That\u2019s how strong I feel about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t have this f***** as our prime minister. I absolutely loathe him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shocking remarks were made at a public meeting held in Kent on Saturday (May 2), which was attended by UKIP leader Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n

A party spokesman said: “The views expressed by Mr Blay are abhorrent. As soon as they were brought to our attention, he was suspended from the party.<\/p>\n

“Any comments of this sort have absolutely no place in British politics or public life, and the party would like to take this opportunity to apologise to Mr Jayawardena for any distress caused.”<\/p>\n

North East Hampshire is one of Britain\u2019s safest Tory seats, with Mr Arbuthnot polling a majority of more than 18,500 at the last general election, and Mr Jayawardena is the hot favourite to become the area’s next MP.<\/p>\n

Speaking about his own prospects of defeat on Thursday, Mr Blay said: \u201cIt makes me quite sick.<\/p>\n

“But I\u2019ve always said [that] in my constituency you could put a monkey out there with a blue rosette on and it would win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Blay added: \u201cHis [Mr Jayawardena\u2019s] family have only been here since the 70s. You are not British enough to be in our parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got 400 years of ancestry where I live. He hasn\u2019t got that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said to his dad about two months ago, ‘when did you come to Britain?\u2019. He said, ‘in the 70s’.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018why did you come?\u2019. He said, \u2018things weren\u2019t very good politically in Sri Lanka and I came here and I could train as an accountant\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he\u2019s come here and ponced off us hasn\u2019t he, like all the east Europeans are? That\u2019s what is happening. Continually.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘He’s a slippery b******’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Blay went on: \u201cHis name\u2019s Jayawardena and I\u2019m told that name is a Tamil name. Well the Tamils were Indians which went to Sri Lanka to take it over and they got their arses kicked.<\/em><\/p>\n

“So he comes here, ponces off us and then his son\u2019s in our political system.\u201d<\/p>\n

And furthering his shocking rant, Mr Blay suggested Mr Jayawardena had deliberately made his wife pregnant in order to win votes.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s 29 years old. He\u2019s got his missus to drop a kid just before the election,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s planned the birth of the child, there\u2019s no doubt about that. He\u2019s a slippery b******. I\u2019ve worked with him in the Tories.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his chat with the Mirror reporter, Mr Blay also described how he called the police following a heated row with an east European voter after he put a UKIP election leaflet through his door.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s in my country,\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a f****** immigrant and I\u2019m not putting up with that s***, because that was abuse.”<\/p>\n

As part of Get Hampshire’s general election preview coverage, we asked all the North East Hampshire candidates what they would do to rejuvenate town centres and neighbourhood parades, to which Mr Blay replied: “Leave the EU and control immigration.”<\/p>\n

He spoke about being “born in the heart of the constituency” and growing up locally, adding: “Since my teens I have become increasingly frustrated as the cosy Westminster establishment have given away my country to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels – so I became a political activist in 2007.”<\/p>\n

And commenting further on the issue of immigration, Mr Blay said: “Uncontrolled EU immigration is changing the fabric of our society.<\/p>\n

“Our NHS and welfare systems are under severe pressure as immigrants are treated and given access to benefits without having to pay in first.<\/p>\n

“Jobs are taken from our indigenous population which leaves us with considerably higher unemployment than if we operated UKIP\u2019s favoured Australian-style points-based system, with the requirement [that] anyone coming to the UK must have health insurance to cover their treatment.”<\/p>\n

UKIP has put Britain\u2019s withdrawal from the European Union and stricter controls on immigration at the heart of its manifesto and Nigel Farage has had to repeatedly fend off questions during the election campaign about his party having racists in its ranks.<\/p>\n

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna last week claimed that a \u201cvirus of racism\u201d runs through UKIP, which Mr Farage described as \u201ccomplete and utter rubbish”.<\/p>\n

Responding to Mr Blay’s comments, Mr Jayawardena said: “I was shocked to hear about these comments and that someone who holds these types of views could have been selected as a UKIP candidate.<\/p>\n

“My family believes in hard work. My father came to this country to do just that \u2013 never claiming a penny from the state.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s contributed to society as a magistrate and I\u2019ve done the same as a local councillor.<\/p>\n

“I hope to contribute positively to our country by representing my community \u2013 the community in which I grew up \u2013 in parliament.”<\/p>\n

Green Party candidate Andrew Johnston posted on Facebook with a message he had emailed to Mr Jayawardena.<\/p>\n

It read: “I am appalled and disgusted by Robert Blay\u2019s remarks… and want you to know we are all utterly ashamed of him.<\/p>\n

“I am sorry you and your young family will have had to endure this vile and disgusting attack.<\/p>\n

“I can assure you I will encourage all my UKIP friends (not that I have many) to vote for you.<\/p>\n

“We need to build a better Britain without people like Mr Blay anywhere near ‘public life’.”<\/p>\n

A Hampshire Constabulary spokesman said the force was reviewing the comments as part of “initial inquiries” but added that no-one had been arrested.<\/p>\n

He said: “We’re aware of media coverage regarding comments and an alleged threat made towards a prospective parliamentary candidate in the North East Hampshire constituency.<\/p>\n

“The information available is being reviewed by Hampshire Constabulary.<\/p>\n

“Police are in contact with the candidate affected by these comments as part of initial inquiries.”
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\nCourtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ranil Jayawardena(29)of Sri Lanka Origin was elected to UK Parliament from the North East Hampshire Constituency at the 2015 UK Elections. Jayawardena polled nearly two thirds of the valid votes in the constituency. He received 35,573 votes, which is 65.9 percent of the total valid votes. His closest rival, Graham Cockarill of the Liberal Democratic …<\/p>\n

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