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« Reply #425 on: March 15, 2015, 04:59:33 PM »

While it seems morally correct to scrap this deal, the handling of our foreign policy is beginning to worry me. They seem to have no idea what they're doing.

I think the plan is quite clear: grow a backbone and push the international Overton window as much as possible on important issues.

Foreign policy is complicated. There are lots of countries that Sweden has trade and diplomatic ties with that are terrible and that we should and have criticized. The government might be incompetent on most counts, but this blow-up with the Saudi's isn't really the government's fault at all. I'm willing to give the them the benefit of the doubt.

I also think it was right and brave of Wallström to call Saudi law medieval, because it is.
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« Reply #426 on: March 19, 2015, 03:22:16 PM »

Swedish police: Several people shot, 2 dead, in Goteborg

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/efe5e7704cb441f28933117f5d8f5efb/swedish-police-several-people-shot-some-dead-goteborg
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« Reply #427 on: March 23, 2015, 07:55:19 AM »

Aftonbladet and Expressen are both reporting that Jimmie Åkesson will announce his return as leader of the Sweden Democrats while appearing on the talkshow Skavlan on Friday, after having been on sick leave for chronic fatigue syndrome since October.

There was also some news last week about him attempting to claim for benefits from the Social Insurance Agency despite still getting roughly 70.000 kr combined by the Riksdag and his party, resulting in the claim being denied. Though that particular bit of news will probably end up forgotten as the media focus on his return to the leadership.
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« Reply #428 on: April 08, 2015, 07:00:26 AM »

The Sweden Democrats are about to purge their youth organization (SDU), which is more radically nationalist (to say the least..).

Both SDU-chairman Gustav Kasselstrand and his deputy William Hahne are on their way out and according to Aftonbladet at least 20 others risk to be expelled.

Temporary party leader Mattias Karlsson says that the SDU leadership has allied with persons from extremist organizations to "change the ideology of the mother party" and that this group includes persons from anti-democratic organizations such as Nordic Youth, antisemitic conspiracy theorists and persons who have expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler (surprise, surprise..).

On the other side Kasselstrand claims Mattias Karlsson has turned the party into "a freakshow" and says he has already been expelled with no explanation, while Hahne says Karlsson is a control freak using Soviet methods and unfair accusations of extremism to get rid of critics.

Karlsson has vacated for Jimmie Åkesson as party leader for five months, but the big boss will return from his sick leave this week. Jimmie Åkesson left because of stress, but it seems likely running the party will be far from stress-free.
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« Reply #429 on: April 08, 2015, 08:09:21 AM »

The Sweden Democrats are about to purge their youth organization (SDU), which is more radically nationalist (to say the least..).

Both SDU-chairman Gustav Kasselstrand and his deputy William Hahne are on their way out and according to Aftonbladet at least 20 others risk to be expelled.

Temporary party leader Mattias Karlsson says that the SDU leadership has allied with persons from extremist organizations to "change the ideology of the mother party" and that this group includes persons from anti-democratic organizations such as Nordic Youth, antisemitic conspiracy theorists and persons who have expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler (surprise, surprise..).

On the other side Kasselstrand claims Mattias Karlsson has turned the party into "a freakshow" and says he has already been expelled with no explanation, while Hahne says Karlsson is a control freak using Soviet methods and unfair accusations of extremism to get rid of critics.

Karlsson has vacated for Jimmie Åkesson as party leader for five months, but the big boss will return from his sick leave this week. Jimmie Åkesson left because of stress, but it seems likely running the party will be far from stress-free.

This is a continuation of a longer struggle between SD and it's youth organisation leading back to 2012 when Kasselstrand and the party leadership fell out with each other over foreign policy. Since then the conflict has been brewing under the surface, and the party leadership has twice put up challengers to him at youth conferences.

The conflict escalated in March this year when Kasselstrand's second in charge, William Hahne defeated the incumbent local chairman of SD Stockholm City, in an internal election for the chairmanship.

Internal leaks, says that the party leadership has for a while feared a challenge from Kasselstrand (backed by the youth organisation) to Jimmie Åkesson's leadership at the national party conference this autumn. Something that might seem like wild conspiracy theories, but it should be remembered that Åkesson himself, as leader of the youth organisation, won the leadership ten years ago by dethroning the incumbent leader in a coup.               
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« Reply #430 on: April 08, 2015, 08:50:12 AM »

Would Kasselstrand & Hahne be likely to form their own party?
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« Reply #431 on: April 08, 2015, 09:47:31 AM »

Looking at it from an ideological POV the party leadership has attempted to copy the (modern) DPP line and weeded out references to ethnicity from their program, replaced Nationalism with Social Conservatism and kicked out a number of members for racism.

Mattias Karlsson has launched the concept "open Swedishness" to signal that Swedishness is about culture and not skin colour or country of origin and adapted an assimilationist line where everybody that "respects Swedish culture" and assimilates can become Swedish.

Unlike DPP the ethno-nationalists are just better organized in SD.

Swedish media says Hahne has been expelled as well.
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« Reply #432 on: April 08, 2015, 03:02:42 PM »

Would Kasselstrand & Hahne be likely to form their own party?

Yes, I think that is quite likely. It wouldn't be the first breakaway party formed out of dissatisfied SD members, but it'd probably be the first to get major media attention as Nationaldemokraterna was founded when SD was still an insignificant party outside of parliament and Framstegspartiet was founded by local nobodies.   
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« Reply #433 on: April 15, 2015, 08:29:13 AM »
« Edited: April 15, 2015, 01:53:32 PM by The Lord Marbury »

The government presented its spring supplementary budget today which gives them their first opportunity to implement their own economic policy following the budget crisis during the autumn and the December Agreement. The main points like the improved unemployment benefits and ROT/RUT cuts were of course already known, but here are the main points of the budget. Since the government is unable to raise income taxes with the spring budget the room reforms are of course significantly smaller than it was in the fall.


  • Decreased tax subsidies for household renovations (ROT) and household services (RUT)
    -The maximum amount you can deduct with RUT is cut from 50.000 to 25.000 for those under the age of 65. Cooking except for those over 65, pool cleaning, private bartenders and tutoring will no longer be deductible.
    -The maximum percentage of the cost of renovations you can deduct with ROT is cut from 50% to 30%.
  • Investments in more personnel in elderly care.
    -1 billion this year
    -2 billion in 2016
  • Investments i rail maintenance
    -620 million this year.
    -1.24 billion in 2016.
  • Free medicine for all children under the age of 18.
  • Business policies.
    -225 million this year.
    -315 million in 2016.
  • Improvements in the unemployment insurance
    -The cap for receiving 80% of ones wage during the first 100 days of unemployment is raised from a wage of 18.700 SEK/month to 25.025 SEK/month.
  • Increased child support from 1 273 SEK/month to 1 573 SEK/month.
  • Increased taxes on petrol, diesel and ethanol.
    -0.55 SEK/litre increase on petrol.
    -0.60 SEK/litre increase on diesel.
    -1.18 SEK/litre increase on ethanol. The increase on ethanol was done only in order to comply with EU regulations and was not part of the government’s budget originally.
  • 6.500 new places in higher education and adult education/training this year. 650 million
  • Abolished payroll tax discount for hiring those under 25
    -5.5 billion this year
    -16 billion in 2016.
  • Investments in conservation. 460 million this year.
  • Investments in maternity care
    -200 million this year.
    -400 million in 2016.
  • Increased housing benefit for pensioners by 100 SEK/month.
  • Benefits for the purchase of eyeglasses for all children in the ages 8-19.
  • Support for local climate investments.
    -125 million in 2015, thereafter 600 million per year.
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« Reply #434 on: April 17, 2015, 12:15:44 PM »

A crossparty agreement on defense funding between the government and the Moderate, Centre and Christian Democrat parties was announced today, which entails an additional 10.2 billion going to the armed forces in the next five years. This however falls quite a bit behind the armed forces' own request for additional funding of about 20 billion in order to meet the obligations set by the crossparty defence commission. The government also apoint a commission to investigate international cooperation, which falls short of the Alliance parties' demands of a commission to investigate NATO membership since the commission won't look at Swedish neutrality policy.

The Liberal People's Party is staying out of the agreement as they demanded an increase of about 17 billion and Jan Björklund seems to be making a shift away from the education issues towards defence in his bid to keep the party leadership. The Liberals staying out of the deal also signifies the first true split in Alliance since before the 2006 election. It's also interesting to note that during their first time ever in government the traditionally pacifist Green Party's MPs will actually vote to increase defence funding.
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« Reply #435 on: June 18, 2015, 05:16:30 PM »

The Sweden Democrats are rising fast in the polls: 20% in YouGov and 22% in Sentio. Not far behind S and M.
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« Reply #436 on: June 19, 2015, 10:09:10 AM »

The Sweden Democrats are rising fast in the polls: 20% in YouGov and 22% in Sentio. Not far behind S and M.

They are threatening to spank them!
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« Reply #437 on: June 22, 2015, 04:39:18 AM »
« Edited: June 22, 2015, 04:41:52 AM by Hifly »

The Sweden Democrats are rising fast in the polls: 20% in YouGov and 22% in Sentio. Not far behind S and M.

Fuck.

The only way to stop them is to increase immigration levels. What do you think of my plan?
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« Reply #438 on: June 22, 2015, 05:32:44 AM »

The Sweden Democrats are rising fast in the polls: 20% in YouGov and 22% in Sentio. Not far behind S and M.

Fuck.

The only way to stop them is to increase immigration levels. What do you think of my plan?

That sound like something the mainstream Swedish parties would suggest.

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« Reply #439 on: June 22, 2015, 10:44:13 AM »

No point fretting overmuch over midterm polls.
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« Reply #440 on: June 22, 2015, 04:13:26 PM »

No point fretting overmuch over midterm polls.

Of course not. When they're consistent with a five year trend, however...
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« Reply #441 on: June 22, 2015, 04:24:25 PM »

File this under "ironic": the Green co-leader and environment minister has been caught coating her houseboat with environmentally hazardous anti-fouling toxic paint (which is illegal under both Swedish and EU law), and has attempted to wriggle out of it on a loophole. lmao
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« Reply #442 on: June 23, 2015, 08:19:54 AM »

The Sweden Democrats are rising fast in the polls: 20% in YouGov and 22% in Sentio. Not far behind S and M.

Fuck.

The only way to stop them is to increase immigration levels. What do you think of my plan?

That sound like something the mainstream Swedish parties would suggest.



I assume the joke is that this is what the Swedish government actually did when SD first got into parliament.

Interestingly, apart from 1998 when they increased their vote total by 50% they've been at least doubling their votes in every election they've run in since the party foundation in 1988. Pretty remarkable.
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« Reply #443 on: June 23, 2015, 08:51:48 AM »

The Sweden Democrats are rising fast in the polls: 20% in YouGov and 22% in Sentio. Not far behind S and M.

Fuck.

The only way to stop them is to increase immigration levels. What do you think of my plan?

That sound like something the mainstream Swedish parties would suggest.



I assume the joke is that this is what the Swedish government actually did when SD first got into parliament.

Interestingly, apart from 1998 when they increased their vote total by 50% they've been at least doubling their votes in every election they've run in since the party foundation in 1988. Pretty remarkable.

Well, that will stop before the end of the decade, I doubt they'll get 52% in the 2022 election.
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« Reply #444 on: June 23, 2015, 10:25:39 AM »

I assume the Conservative Parties are going to uphold the current government rather than bring it down and spark another election which would lead to SD increasing in votes?
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« Reply #445 on: June 23, 2015, 02:10:18 PM »

The Sweden Democrats are rising fast in the polls: 20% in YouGov and 22% in Sentio. Not far behind S and M.

Fuck.

The only way to stop them is to increase immigration levels. What do you think of my plan?

That sound like something the mainstream Swedish parties would suggest.



I assume the joke is that this is what the Swedish government actually did when SD first got into parliament.

Interestingly, apart from 1998 when they increased their vote total by 50% they've been at least doubling their votes in every election they've run in since the party foundation in 1988. Pretty remarkable.

Well, that will stop before the end of the decade, I doubt they'll get 52% in the 2022 election.

Nothing would surprise me at this point.
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« Reply #446 on: June 23, 2015, 02:41:04 PM »

I assume the Conservative Parties are going to uphold the current government rather than bring it down and spark another election which would lead to SD increasing in votes?

They already pledged not to, but opinion polls show support for the deal keeping the Red-Greens in power  has shrunk to nothing among Alliance voters. Also, polls now indicate the Alliance might win a rematch. I still think they'll stay on and keep this and hope for a proper win next time around but there is growing dissent within the parties.
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« Reply #447 on: July 22, 2015, 02:39:12 PM »

Bumping this one because we have had a couple of Sweden related news going in wrong threads.
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« Reply #448 on: July 22, 2015, 02:41:53 PM »

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6217312

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« Reply #449 on: July 22, 2015, 02:52:21 PM »

According to Swedish Minister of Education Gustaf Fridolin the Swedish education system is in deep crisis "after falling faster and further than any other country in international tests in science, reading and maths."

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-33115771

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