Nineteen years ago it was an isolated unhinged gunman who inspired and foreshadowed the political facts. Now it is a democratically elected parliamentary party that inspires the deluded.So, that last gunman was a bit of a self-starter, and this one needed a helping hand from the government?
We managed to defeat the events of 1991 – the shootings, the death threats, and the riots. This time? We can only keep calm, and do some serious work on the integration policies that have led us here. The Sweden you know has now changed forever.Indeed. I rather think that’s the problem though.
Not the solution.
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The Swedes, of course, have been able to vote for an anti-immigration, 'Swedes first' party and they are part of the coalition government in an advisory capacity.
The Germans have more or less given up on government on some issues, immigration and idiot transport schemes being a couple. The Grauniad is up itself, and now even to the weedy, dated 'left' of the Swedes, who actually always were rather more conservative than us behind the common decency of their social policies.
Germans feel their country is flooded with foreigners and so does most of Europe. The feelings are post-racist. Allcoppedout getting various identity failures.
I love how the author quoted says Malmo's the least racist town he's ever lived in. This is the same Malmo which had riots when the Israeli tennis team came to play, of course, but clearly that kind of thing doesnt count.
1991?
Have they forgotten the gun-murder of the PM, Olaf Palme in March 1986?
Notice how the papers are assuming it is a white supremacist responsible for the shootings, an attitude which is clearly racist.
Do none of them remember the Washington shiper?
What, you mean other people don't like the way our towns and cities have become either? Perish the thought!
Such movements are quite popular in many of the Scandinavian countries - look at the success of Denmark's Dansk Folkeparti for instance - though as has been said not all of these parties are on the same page, at least not economically. Some of them are quite social democratic (or even socialist), others conservative, others libertarian etc.
"Germans feel their country is flooded with foreigners and so does most of Europe. The feelings are post-racist."
It's the reason for the hysterical columns in the 'Indy' and 'CiF' lately, extolling the virtues of multiculti. The dam is breaking...
"This is the same Malmo which had riots when the Israeli tennis team came to play, of course, but clearly that kind of thing doesnt count."
Decent people don't mention those little embarrassments, clearly...
"Have they forgotten the gun-murder of the PM, Olaf Palme in March 1986?"
The OP does give it a brief mention in his article, but that's all.
"Do none of them remember the Washington shiper?"
Indeed! That turned out to be something the profilers weren't expecting, didn't it?
"...though as has been said not all of these parties are on the same page, at least not economically."
Which is yet more evidence that ordinary people are getting fed up, no matter what their original politics...
I never thought much of Sweden after seeing that chef in the Muppets.
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