The proof of the pudding is in the eating Fraud is a fraud whether implemented honestly or not The writer is a social activist who is the National Coordinator for Pattan Development Organisation. The views expressed here are his own. George Orwell had described the English electoral system as “an open fraud. In a dozen obvious ways, it is gerrymandered in the interest of the moneyed class. But it is implemented honestly.” No wonder, most British colonies after independence adopted that system. However, the new ruling elites didn’t want to implement the fraud system honestly or didn’t know how to implement it as they lacked the required shrewdness, sophistication and hypocrisy the English colonisers had. Therefore, we see military takeovers, massive corruption, crony capitalism, inequality, poor governance, political instability and civil wars.