#3
Talk about phase lag---a decade or two. Well, they are at least better than us in that department. We have not started in our government.
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02/27/2011 14:15 Comments ||
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#4
The complaint against foreigners not bothered about learning the language/culture here is levelled against all foreigners be they Syrian, Polish or English, so don't pull that lever. The issue is ghettos, crime, turf wars, no-go areas fuelled by a nonsensical Political immigrant block-vote buying, a lá NuLabour, UK. Swedish Democrats will see a rise in seats in the coming years, theMSM here ridiculing them, painting them as the EDL is in Blighty, eh, Bright Pebbles. Fortunately, this has provoked serious question time within general spheres, with more people realising how a handful of people seriously put thier minds through the No 3 cycle in the washing-machine under the pretext of multi-culturarism, and then got rinsed. It hasn't helped the Krayon subscribers/underwriters with that fool with his kaboom in Stockholm recently. The burden of guilt for the past, weighing heavily on these good Nordic folk for the moment, may just revert to a level of Viking diplomatic truths, having seen all their good-will and hospitalities, customs, morals, etc, taken and trashed without even a "Tak så mycket".
#6
The migration issue could be fought by not allowing immigrants any unemployment or welfare benefits for sayyyy 10 -15 years?
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/27/2011 17:01 Comments ||
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A little late for that, perhaps, Frank G. The rights to benefits are so good here, open to Thirld World abuse that should have been addressed way back before it became associated with collective punishment for the immigrants and good ol-fashioned Swedish ångst. But soon that stick will be broken and fascism will be all the rage. Sverige seems very Anglo-Saxon, at times, in the curve of time, but they will go Viking again.
#9
Or start billing the home country of illegals for the use of services.
enrolled in school? Bill Mexico for tuition.
Emergency room? Bill Mexico.
Need translators and public defender for court? Bill Mexico.
In jail for 20 years? Bill Mexico.
#10
Frank, Sweden's immigration policy was specifically designed to attract workers for industry. However, it colluded with the welfare state to bring about a rather different result.
Ireland's new government is headed for confrontation with Brussels after the country's ruling party was wiped out on Saturday by voters in a huge popular backlash against a European-IMF austerity programme.
This should be interesting. The more left-wing Fianna Fail is out after ruling for 60 years and the center-right Fine Gael is in but must deal with the fiscal mess.
The unprecedented and historic defeat, Fianna Fail's worst result in 85 years, makes the Irish government the first eurozone administration to be punished by voters in the aftermath of the EU's debt crisis. Voter turn-out was exceptionally high at more than 70 per cent, indicating public anger at the government and the EU.
Late last year, Ireland was forced to accept a £72 billion EU-IMF bailout to cover huge public debts that were ran up to save failed Irish banks.
The bail-out was designed to prevent financial contagion that threatened the existence of the euro, but according to economic forecasts, the cost of servicing Irish bank debt and the EU-IMF bank loans will consume 85 per cent of Ireland's income tax revenue by 2012, a burden that a majority of voters find intolerable.
[Pak Daily Times] Ireland's ruling Fianna Fail party suffered a crushing defeat in elections dominated by the economic collapse and an EU-IMF bailout, exit polls showed on Saturday, with the opposition poised to take power.
Prime Minister Brian Cowen's party, which has ruled Ireland for most of the last 80 years, slumped to its worst ever general election result with just 15.1 percent of the vote, the poll for state broadcaster RTE said.
As widely expected, the election has seen Dublin become the first government to fall as a result of the debt crisis in the 17-country eurozone. The main opposition Fine Gael party is set to form the new government and its leader Enda Kenny will be prime minister after it took 36.1 percent in Friday's election, although it failed to win enough votes to govern alone. Fine Gael is on course to take more than 70 seats in the 166-seat Dail, or lower parliament, analysts said.
The centrist party's deputy director of elections, Frank Flannery, told RTE that if the exit poll was correct "it was an absolutely amazing and historic election". Noel Dempsey, a former minister in the Fianna Fail government, conceded that he would be happy if his party emerged with more than 20 seats, less than a third of its total in the outgoing parliament. "It's looking pretty grim, I have to say," he said. Fine Gael will need support from other parties or independents to form a government, and could turn to Labour, who secured 20.5 percent, according to the exit poll of 3,500 voters by Millward Brown Lansdowne.
Fianna Fail was the target of public anger over the debt crisis that crippled Ireland's once-vibrant "Celtic Tiger" economy and forced it to agree to an 85-billion-euro ($115-billion) bailout with the European Union and International Monetary Fund last November.
Cowen had conceded defeat even before polls closed, telling local media Friday as he cast his ballot in the central county of Offaly that his party would now "regroup". "I have always been proud of who we are and what we are. This organisation will come again," he said.
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