Who do you think will win the Vienna state election ?

[Helsinkian]

The only way that the SPOe redeem themselves is if they increase immigration levels; people are probably unhappy with the centre-left because there hasn't been enough immigration.

You're partly right. The solution to the "problem" of immigration is to draw in more immigrants and naturalize them, so as to drown out the racist vote. This strategy is already starting to pay off in the US. I wish Europe was smart enough to follow suit...

Your suggestion sounds like Soviet-style politics where population transfers were used to combat "unreliable" ethnicities.

[Helsinkian]

One amusing inconsistency about the anti-nationalism of left-wingers: I have noticed that even though the leftists often denounce all nationalism, there is in fact one nationalism that they do approve: Palestinian nationalism. By saying that the Palestinians as a nation have a right to their own homeland, their nation-state, they are essentially promoting nationalism in this one case. For some reason they cannot fathom why European nations ought to have to same right to a homeland.