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Ex-Prime Minister: Sweden is falling apart
www.thelocal.se ^ | 09/21/2014 | The Local/TT/pr

Posted on 09/21/2014 6:45:22 AM PDT by WesternCulture

Background: The anti-Islamist party of the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) recently made huge success in national elections. Despite the fact that Swedes drive around in $35 000 Volvos and build even larger homes for themselves than other rich people like Americans and Australians do, something obviously is rotten in this neighbor state of Denmark and it's not surströmming (google it!). Sooner, it's a failed policy on immigration.

Anyhow, this is the analysis of former (Socialist or at least Social Democratic) PM Persson who once expressed doubts about the numbers of non-Western immigrants Sweden has let in.

The article:

"Former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson has said that the election success of the Sweden Democrats is a "slap" in the face for the Stockholm establishment.

In an interview with Sveriges Television the retired politician said his own Social Democratic party and the Moderates are too similar, which he argued cost them votes at the polls.

"I think the success of the Sweden Democrats depends partly on the triangulation, the tendency not to take risks with policies, not to show the differences, which the Moderates introduced and the Social Democrats have also taken after.

"One lays so close to the other so that when one is angry and resigned there is nowhere else to protest," Persson told the Agenda programme.

Persson, who was Prime Minister from 1996 to 2006, said the Sweden Democrats did well outside of the capital as they were able to tap into voters who were fed up with the established parties.

He added that in places where there is "poor mobile phone coverage" and "trains that don't run" that the nationalist party performed better.

"All of this has been expressed. Sweden is falling apart," he said.

Persson added; "Now we have a very clear warning, a real slap in the face for the Stockholm establishment in the form of these election results."

Meanwhile, the final turnout for the election has been revealed at 85.8 percent - an increase of 1.24 percent compared to 2010.

The figures are the highest for a Swedish general election since 1994. Every election since 2002 has recorded an increase in the number of people voting.

Election experts at the University of Gothenburg said the debate surrounding immigration likely helped spike numbers this time round.

"A key to this is the conflict in the refugee/immigration question. It has expanded in dimension and the Sweden Democrats have grown stronger and mobilised in every part of the country," Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson, a researcher at the university, told the TT news agency.

Ekengren that the support for Feminist Initiative (FI) in various parts of the country also played a part in the high turnout. FI earned 3.1 percent of the vote, just short of the 4 percent threshold to earn a spot in parliament.

Outgoing democracy minister Birgitta Ohlsson said she welcomed the news of the increased turnout."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; goranpersson; greenparty; immigration; socialdemocrats; stefanlofven; sweden; swedendemocrats
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To: Gay State Conservative

It will be easier for Europe to rid itself of muzzies than it is for the US to do so.

All Europe needs is to will it.


21 posted on 09/21/2014 8:39:21 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: WesternCulture
Despite the fact that Swedes drive around in $35 000 Volvos and build even larger homes for themselves than other rich people like Americans and Australians do

On HOUSE HUNTER INTERNATIONAL - SWEDEN
House #3 was chosen:


22 posted on 09/21/2014 8:44:23 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: WesternCulture

People unwilling to fight, dependency fosters lethargic lazy people who need to be taken care of


23 posted on 09/21/2014 8:45:28 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: PBRCat

Ever considered that all this migration is done with the sole intention of destroying the West as designed by the UN?

Notice that this global migration is in a one-way direction only and that it has not improved the conditions in the third world but has definitely negatively altered those in first-world countries.

It is like entropy — the irreversible path to chaos.


24 posted on 09/21/2014 8:51:16 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: KC Burke
What an excellent article. Thanks, KC!

Okay. Now I want to read the book.

25 posted on 09/21/2014 8:52:18 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: hoosierham

I agree


26 posted on 09/21/2014 8:54:31 AM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: WesternCulture
surströmming (google it!)

No need, I can smell it from here. ;-)

Anyway, will the SD have a noticable influence in parliament now? Will they be able to actually start changing things or are they still in a phase of gaining momentum (let's hope it's not too late)?

And kudos to your homepage - well stated!

27 posted on 09/21/2014 9:28:32 AM PDT by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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To: WesternCulture

Seems significant coming from an actual Social Democrat apparatchik of apparatchiks.

Will Sweden’s press have any hands left, with all the hand-wringing?


28 posted on 09/21/2014 3:19:40 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: Slyfox

If Free Repuplic was You Tube you’d have received at least 1000 thumbs up by now.

Greetings from Socialist Sweden!


29 posted on 09/24/2014 10:05:19 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

I thank you for your multiple thumbs up!


30 posted on 09/24/2014 10:53:12 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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