Can we talk about Sweden for a bit?

[MrBrightSi]

Looket said:

https://www.facebook.com/stefanlofven/photos/a.649...

Just hit google translate on those comments.

My god.

Favorite comment is "You're the youngest one there (prime minister)"

[SGirl]

BrabusMog said:

Funnily enough I was just down my the water in Trollhättan and was approached by a Turkish guy who just pointed at a board that looked like he was collecting for charity. I just said I don't speak Swedish and walked off and he followed us for about 5 minutes and then turned around. Very odd, hadn't experienced that before.

Oh yeah, I've seen that one a few times too. They thrust a note into your hand in bad English or Swedish, which usually says something along the lines of "my granny has head cancer, please give me lots of money to help it go away". The only thing to do with them is thrust it straight back at them and keep on walking. When I was a student I once made the mistake of stopping to read what it was, and it took me ages to get rid of the bloke.

It's a shame the authorities won't do anything about it.

[SGirl]

MrBrightSi said:

Just hit google translate on those comments.

My god.

Favorite comment is "You're the youngest one there (prime minister)"

Interesting. It seems even the super-tolerant Swedes are getting a bit fed up.

[Finlandia]

SGirl said:

Interesting. It seems even the super-tolerant Swedes are getting a bit fed up.

Many are fed up, but expressing that opinion will get you branded a racist/fascist/nazi.

[handpaper]

Dunno if this is old news, but it looks interesting.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9481542/sweden...
The political establishment looks like it wants her to apologise, retract, resign, and let them carry on appeasing; maybe the Swedish people will say something (particularly if they've recently dyed their hair).

[Looket]

Jobless, penniless, still living in your mum's basement and in need of some top-notch healthcare?

Not to worry, the good people of Stockholm will sort you out. The only condition is that you will have to have killed, slaughtered and beheaded your way through half of the Middle East first.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/swedens-welfare-bonanza...
http://swedenreport.org/2015/05/14/rewarding-jihad...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10488...

Poor things must be suffering from PTSD having raped and butchered all those little girls.

The Minister of Justice recently declared that companies without at least 40% women on their boards should be forcefully dissolved. I can see how they could easily change that and instead earmark said board memberships to our homecoming heroes. Jihadi John - CEO, anyone? Productivity in the work place would go through the roof!

Once again, the socialists have outdone themselves. Stellar work.

EDIT: Excuse the sources, they are the only English ones I could find.

Edited by Looket on Wednesday 20th May 22:42

Edited by Looket on Wednesday 20th May 22:44

[QuantumTokoloshi]

Looket said:

Jobless, penniless, still living in your mum's basement and in need of some top-notch healthcare?

Not to worry, the good people of Stockholm will sort you out. The only condition is that you will have to have killed, slaughtered and beheaded your way through half of the Middle East first.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/swedens-welfare-bonanza...
http://swedenreport.org/2015/05/14/rewarding-jihad...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10488...

Poor things must be suffering from PTSD having raped and butchered all those little girls.

The Minister of Justice recently declared that companies without at least 40% women on their boards should be forcefully dissolved. I can see how they could easily change that and instead earmark said board memberships to our homecoming heroes. Jihadi John - CEO, anyone? Productivity in the work place would go through the roof!

Once again, the socialists have outdone themselves. Stellar work.

You have to give them credit, you would really struggle to make this kind of lunacy up, never mind implement it.

[Finlandia]

A quick recoup of the highest in charge from the past weeks.

1. The minister of education had no idea that you could fly out of Arlanda airport (it's only the biggest airport in Sweden), instead the aircraft had to fly 25 miles to pick the green party member up from Bromma airport.
2. The vice PM compared the Mediterranean refugees situation to Auschwitz, and later while apologising for her outburst, she called Roma people "pie keys", twice, in different statements.
3. The PM (who is an ex union leader and a strong advocate of collective agreements/kollektivavtal) has been caught using workers who have no collective agreement.

It's quite fun watching, but very painful at the same time, I'm paying for these clowns to ruin my country.

[BrabusMog]

So there's money for terrorists in Sweden but no money in the Kommun my girlfriend lives in to pay for her sister to finish her training in dementia care and she will have to leave the job she can do really well in August, as she doesn't have the qualification? What a joke.

[Halb]

Finlandia said:

A quick recoup of the highest in charge from the past weeks.

1. The minister of education had no idea that you could fly out of Arlanda airport (it's only the biggest airport in Sweden), instead the aircraft had to fly 25 miles to pick the green party member up from Bromma airport.
2. The vice PM compared the Mediterranean refugees situation to Auschwitz, and later while apologising for her outburst, she called Roma people "pie keys", twice, in different statements.
3. The PM (who is an ex union leader and a strong advocate of collective agreements/kollektivavtal) has been caught using workers who have no collective agreement.

It's quite fun watching, but very painful at the same time, I'm paying for these clowns to ruin my country.

They have a large majority? When is the next election?
Swedes use the term 'piekey'? 😀

[Finlandia]

Halb said:

They have a large majority? When is the next election?
Swedes use the term 'piekey'? ??

They are a minority, the government consists of Socialdemocrats 31% in the last election and the Green Party 7%, they are backed by the Left Party (formerly Left Party Communists) 6%.
Next election is 2018, unless off-year elections are held, which already was promised by the PM shortly after the election, and broken a few weeks later.

Zigenare is the derogatory term used here (and was the word used by the vice PM), which roughly has the same meaning as the word I used (even if Google translate suggests otherwise).

[Looket]

BrabusMog said:

So there's money for terrorists in Sweden but no money in the Kommun my girlfriend lives in to pay for her sister to finish her training in dementia care and she will have to leave the job she can do really well in August, as she doesn't have the qualification? What a joke.

The 'barn is empty' as according to the minister of finance. Reinfeldt said before the election that there'd be no room for reform in the coming years due to spiralling immigration costs.

Halb said:

They have a large majority? When is the next election?
Swedes use the term 'piekey'? ??

Minority government. 37% after the election, although currently polling significantly below that. In the words of the PM though, who cares about polls. See more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Swedish_governme...

The term is 'zigenare' and is apparently not very PC these days.

[Finlandia]

Looket said:

The 'barn is empty' as according to the minister of finance. Reinfeldt said before the election that there'd be no room for reform in the coming years due to spiralling immigration costs.

It will fill up nicely again with the hike in petrol tax come the new year. But of course there will be many new holes to fill, not to mention the old ones.

Talking about holes, potholes, in the town where I live, the cost to fix the roads would be 170Msek, the budget is 15Msek...

[IainT]

aizvara said:

Looket said:

Lots....

From what little I know of the Sweden Democrats, they come across like a bunch of racist, misogynistic morons who have a habit of whining when people take them to task for their more egregiously stupid pronouncements.

Is that the sort of thing that Aftonbladet have been "outing"?

My wife is Swedish and centre-right in the UK which makes her decidedly right-wing in Swedish terms and she has nothing but contempt for the Swedish Democrats. She lumps them with NF/BNP in UK political terms.

That they're polling so highly is worrying.

[Finlandia]

IainT said:

My wife is Swedish and centre-right in the UK which makes her decidedly right-wing in Swedish terms and she has nothing but contempt for the Swedish Democrats. She lumps them with NF/BNP in UK political terms.

That they're polling so highly is worrying.

They will only get more and more voters, as long as the other parties are blindly following the set course.

[Halb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_par...

Mixed bag.

Scandies, where do you see your people going? What will happen at the next election?

Is private enterprise stymied over there? What are the large reasons for the high GDP per capita?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_...

[Stevanos]

Halb said:

Is private enterprise stymied over there? What are the large reasons for the high GDP per capita?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_...

Business is very stymied here, it is pretty expensive to hire people and set-up, tax is too high also!

I was looking into it but not really sure having gone through everything,

[Pesty]

Stevanos said:

Business is very stymied here, it is pretty expensive to hire people and set-up, tax is too high also!

I was looking into it but not really sure having gone through everything,

I keep reading about large business leaving California because of the left wing policies of high taxes etc etc and moving to other states.

Are you finding the same I Sweden. Perhaps companies leaving for Hungary for example or elsewhere ?

[Finlandia]

Pesty said:

I keep reading about large business leaving California because of the left wing policies of high taxes etc etc and moving to other states.

Are you finding the same I Sweden. Perhaps companies leaving for Hungary for example or elsewhere ?

Most of the large companies in Sweden have their HQ abroad or have been sold abroad, mid sized companies survive but many of them are seeing heavy cutbacks, smaller companies struggle.

[Stevanos]

Finlandia said:

Most of the large companies in Sweden have their HQ abroad or have been sold abroad, mid sized companies survive but many of them are seeing heavy cutbacks, smaller companies struggle.

Sums it up well from what I can tell.