While I don’t think it’s a great idea to bring a few hundred thousand people into the country with no plan, put them in a ghetto and sentence them to a life of boredom and welfare, and while I would also welcome an open debate about immigration and Islam and think the pussyfooting around Islam needs to stop, I absolutely abhor the Sweden Democrats, their jargon and their talk of ethnic Swedes über alles. Nasty bunch of people. And although not explicitly anti-gay, they are.
About this Gimme Some Truth / sometimes anonymous character - they are obviously unhinged. I don’t debate with holocaust deniers and gay bashers; they tend to have poor judgment.
I agree with a lot of that. I do think, however, that if ethnic Botswanans can have a homeland so can ethnic Swedes. That only seems fair. If they aren’t allowed to have one, then where should they go?
I come from a country where 52% of the nation are now considered Nazis in some quarters for the crime of wishing their nation’s affairs to mirror those of all but twenty-seven countries on the planet.
Brexit is blamed on the uninformed or the stupid. It’s often blamed on individuals like Farage and/or Johnson. It’s actually the fault of successive British governments and Merkel’s decision in 2015 to demand the opening of the EU borders to all and sundry. A decision, I might add, she took without the agreement of the other member states. So much for the EU’s mutual cooperation. I doubt Leave would have won without Berlin’s intervention. Those silly old Germans. They’ll go to any lengths to gain readmittance into the human race.
(I’m re-reading an excellent book called All Out War by Tim Shipman. It recounts the battle for Brexit. I’ve lost count of the number of times the British government makes a proposal and the phrase “But Merkel said no.” crops up. The UK has been a vassal state of Germany, as have the other EU member states, for several decades. I’m firmly of the belief Brussels is a front.)
In Sweden the rise of the SD is similarly the “fault” of politicians in government over the last few decades. The SD have gone from nowhere to 18% in eight years. Perhaps they’ve spruced themselves up a bit, smoothed out a few rough edges, but they’ve done so within the law, and suddenly, like other parties across the EU they garner support.
What the media and opposition politicians loftily call populism most people call democracy and it seems to be gaining traction across the West. I think that’s a very good thing for several reasons, not least because it reveals the establishments to have the merest veneer of belief in the democratic process.
Those lovely liberals, from Capitol Hill, to Westminster, to the Reichstag and all points in between, are not liberal at all and the Eloi are starting to wake up.
and step down without further ado.
Are you playing swede?
