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The parable of the kettle and the flame-by Susantha Hewa Source:Island It is true that it is only by holding an election that you can test whether the voters are still happy with a government they elected a couple of years ago. However, it is facetious and, even grossly dishonest to claim that the voters are still with the government simply because holding an election now is out of the question. The unavailability of a thermometer does not justify the claim that a few bubbles forming in the kettle mean nothing. Of course, you may say that the rising bubbles are ‘unruly’, but they are a sign of the entire body of water getting hot and you may know it if you put your hand in it. The bubbles of discontent will increase and continue to surface until you remove the flame from beneath the kettle. You are not going ...