The Big Bad Swedish Politics & News Thread

[eric82oslo]

New YouGov poll has SD at the highest ever and with a solid margin to the Moderates and SAP. Fokpartiet below the threshold, so an M + SD majority.

SD 27.3
Social Democrats 21.8
Moderates 20.0

Centre 7.5
KD 4.9
Folkpartiet 3.7

Looks like there will be a grand coalition in Sweden after the next election, just like in Germany.

Btw, what happened to Folkpartiet??

[eric82oslo]

The Moderates have agreed on immigration package by a large majority on their National Congress.

- temporary residency permits for refugees
- fast settlements of applications for asylum seekers
- those refused will be sent home quicker
- the refused will get no financial support,
- requirement for family reunification will be tightened.
- liberalization of the labor market to will make it asier for refugees to get jobs.

In addition municipalities should be able to prohibit begging (SD has ran an aggressive campaign against begging)

Anna Kinberg-Batra: "I have initiated a major review of our migration and integration policy."

Political commentator at Svenska Dagbladet Ewa Stenberg: "Fredrik Reinfeldt's vision of Sweden as a humanistic great power was buried over the weekend at the Moderates congress."

Former Defense Minister Anders Björck: "I've been waiting for this for a long time. The Moderate are starting to rediscover their true self."

Everything will go downhill from here on. In the worst case scenario, Sweden could become the new Denmark in the not too distant future.

[eric82oslo]

I swear to God, if you guys keep derailing this thread any longer by turning it into yet another thread where people name call others for being racist or what ever I will pull a Politicus and delete it. The thread is here for people to have sensible discussions about Swedish news and politics, not whether you think Denmark is the worst thing on this planet. Which is a ridiculous discussion that has no place here.

I am sorry for my share of derailing. You know I like this thread very much and have contributed to it in the past. Just felt the need to reply to some particularly bizarre remarks.

Meanwhile, SD has declined in the polls a little, now being somewhere between 16% and 20% -- consistently below both S and M.

Like DavidB I'm sorry about the negative contribution my answer to eric82oslo created, which was why I decided to not answer MaxQue provocation and ignore BundouYMB, and just post news.

BTW as for the whole Roma camp in Malmö, have it been Sweden discusses whether to deport them back to Romania (it's fully legal) or will they be given housing?

How can you be so sure that the Roma/gypsies come from Romania specifically? Actually Romas come from India originally, and today they are in almost every single country in the world. Even in the small town in Chile where I lived for a year there were plentiful of gypsies, and my "grandfather" actually spent most of his time helping them to a better life, that seemed to be his entire life mission. Only an extremely low percentage of the world's gypsies/Romas live in Romania. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more gyspies in Spain in fact. Ever heard of flamenco? That's a 100% gypsy style of music.

And I have nothing to apologize for in this thread as my statement was 100% rooted in facts. I'm seriously worried that Sweden will eventually become the new Denmark, and as we all know (yet you apparently refuse to recognize) Denmark is the Hungary of the Nordic countries, whether you like it or not. The far right government currently in office in Norway are trying to make Norway become the next Denmark as well btw. I guess you're gleeing in your house for that "joyful" development. Just because I'm a John Lennon (and Gandhi) who favours open borders doesn't mean that you are free to stereotype me as some awful human being.

[eric82oslo]

First of you should really stop comparing yourself to Ghandi; it's a great insult on one of history's greatest men to a whiny forum .

Lol, you really don't know what you're talking about. Very few people in this entire world knows more about Gandhi or have read more books about him than me, so maybe you should stop talking right now. While other people have Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Mother Theresa as their hero, Gandhi has always been the one to me from very early childhood age. I couldn't think of a better hero to guide me in this world.

I never critized you either, so I'm not quite sure why you're attacking me in the first place?

[eric82oslo]

But it's not really a very thoughtful or intelligent analysis. Not that I've ever expected either from you.

Lol, what an insult. Who are you to speak? Some professor?

[eric82oslo]

First of you should really stop comparing yourself to Ghandi; it's a great insult on one of history's greatest men to a whiny forum .

Lol, you really don't know what you're talking about. Very few people in this entire world knows more about Gandhi or have read more books about him than me, so maybe you should stop talking right now. While other people have Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King or Mother Theresa as their hero, Gandhi has always been the one to me from very early childhood age. I couldn't think of a better hero to guide me in this world.

I never critized you either, so I'm not quite sure why you're attacking me in the first place?

Interesting that particular fellow should be your hero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Nonviolence

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I guess ChairmanSanchez was right.

I can't answer to all of Gandhi's statements. This one is the first time I've ever heard, though I've read a couple of other strange statements as well. Even Obama has his flaws, so why shouldn't Gandhi? Noone is perfect dude.

[eric82oslo]

Do you also share Gandhi's disdain for black Africans?

What the f-UcK? Who morons let you enter this website? Gandhi spent almost his entire life in racist South Africa, so obviously he would absolutely detest Africans. Any other questions?