Posted on 09/10/2013 8:00:32 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
The Conservative Party is not that conservative by our lights, being for gay marriage and EU membership, while being moderately fiscally conservative.
The Progress Party, with whom the Conservatives must make a coalition, seems fairly free-market libertarian according to their wiki page
The European "far right" mostly focuses on cultural issues such as immigration restriction and maintaining the integrity of their society, as opposed to economic concerns or the types of social issues that often define the American right.
I think it’s pretty ironic that you use Switzerland of all places as an example of ethnic homogeneity.
Not at all. Sure, you have German, French, and Italian speaking people, but they share a common western European culture. Unless its immigration policy has changed drastically, Switzerland isn't overrun with Turks, Arabs and Africans to the extent that Germany, Holland, and France are.
The Progress Party, they actually lost seats, unfortunately. I wish they were heading the coalition but whudya gonna do, at least the left didn't win.
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