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Sahlin and Åkesson clash in first Riksdag duel

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Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin and the Sweden Democrats' Jimmie Åkesson traded barbs on the floor of the Riksdag on Wednesday in the first party leader debate since Sweden's September 19th general election.

Sahlin charged that it is a big loss for democracy that a party with racist roots has a place in Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag.

Her attacks on the Sweden Democrats came as she opened the first debate between party leaders in the Riksdag since the country's September 19th general elections.

In his debut at the Riksdag's platform, Åkesson retorted, "Mona Sahlin alleges that my party has racist roots, but it was not my party that initiated eugenics research."

Between 1935 and 1975, a period of nearly uninterrupted rule by the Social Democrats, Sweden sterilized a total of 63,000 people, mostly women, as part of a programme based on eugenics research with the aim of weeding out "inferiors" to create a stronger Swedish race.

Åkesson added that Sahlin should clean up the debate instead, but that did not deter her attacks.

"The Sweden Democrats are an un-Swedish phenomenon and should remain so. The Sweden Democrats are a party sprung out of the white power and racist movements," she continued.

She also argued that the Sweden Democrats are a simple-minded party with a single agenda: to pit group against group and attack immigration.

Sahlin also pointed out that the country is now led by a minority government that needs to seek support in the Riksdag.

"We are prepared to work with the government when it benefits the country. However, we will offer strong opposition when the government's policies are heading in the wrong direction. One such issue is decent health insurance, another is jobs," she said.

Other parties continued with the attacks against Åkesson.

Liberal Party leader Jan Björklund wondered why the Sweden Democrats are against government efforts to create entry-level job for immigrants, under which the state would provide a large part of the employer's contribution.

The Sweden Democrats called the proposal "discrimination against Swedes."

"There are no jobs and they do not seem to create enough jobs either," said Åkesson, arguing that the major issue is immigration.

"The single most important integration policy measure is to stop the influx of newly unemployed, then we can begin to integrate in a sensible way," he added.

However, Björklund could not understand the Sweden Democrats' reasoning.

"The result of your policy will increase unemployment among immigrants and it is incomprehensible, unless you think that increased unemployment benefits your policy," he said.

Sweden would be a poorer country without diversity and the multitude of impressions that have influenced Sweden throughout the years, said Green Party spokesman Peter Eriksson, who accused the Sweden Democrats of attacking free and open society with their policies.

"The Swedish culture is good when it is open and accepting, not when the maypole and folk costumes become a straitjacket that shrinks with every wash in the Sweden Democrats' laundry room," he said.

Åkesson countered that the Green Party is an extremist party with regard to immigration issues and wondered if the party intends to use blackmail against the government, which it has for a number of years, to get amnesty for refugees.

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12:22 November 3, 2010 by Alf Garnett
eugenics research !! Obviously something Hitler & his henchmen thought up, well the Swedes were not against the Nazi'z in WWII were they, so obviously the real Swedish Nazi party has been hiding behind the cloak of a Socialist flag all these years.

Or is that sosso have been following mass murderer Stalins lead. Typical hypocritical lefties eh!!

Will Mona have to pay tax on the 9000kr worth of tickets she received??
12:46 November 3, 2010 by Roy E
Well, Bravo to Mr. Åkesson!

A shattering of the lies, myths, and hypocrisies is long overdue.
13:20 November 3, 2010 by cowboykodp
Cliche, I know

You can dish it out Adolf, but you can't take it.

OOH little Jimmie is being bullied. I wonder how it feels to be so despised.
13:24 November 3, 2010 by Alf Garnett
@cowboykodp: I think you'll find the boot is on the other foot!!

For 40yrs the sosso continued with Hiltlers work!!! Besides that Mona's trying to divert attention from her shady activities.
13:30 November 3, 2010 by calebian22
Cowboy,

It seems as if Jimmie handled it quite well.
13:38 November 3, 2010 by cowboykodp
@Alffie

Your logic is a bit odd.

So if Soc Dems are mutilators, your logic says that the SD are not racist? How is that logical?

By the way, I have no love for Soc Dems.

@Caleb;

Stay tuned.
14:07 November 3, 2010 by gorgepir
Too little information here to present a valid opinion, but from what I read it seems the SD really don't have any answers to anything. Whatever issues people talk about, it seems SD leaders (and supporters by extension) just respond with stop immigration. Seems to me they really don't know anything else. It seems quite foolish and naive to think all Sweden's problems will be fixed by stopping immigration.

I wonder if they will ever be able to present their opinions within a simple logical framework, that might be able to actually convince people.
14:16 November 3, 2010 by bubbagump
@Alf Garnett: Unfortunately eugenics got it's big start in the USA. The first big proponents were people like Margret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. It's original name was American Eugenics Society. They took their ideas from Darwinism branding it Social Darwinism. A pretty good history can be seen on Youtube if you search for Maafa21. It explains the roots of the eugenics movement. In fact Hitler got his ideas from this American movement and even gave an award to the head of the American Eugenics movement. But to be fair, the movement may have originated in the US, but quickly spread among the wealthy and elites of Europe. Yes, I'm an American. Yes, eugenics continues in Sweden. Why do you think we allow and pay for third world women to come here for abortions? Not because folks in power believe it's a woman's right. It's population control of the third world. Sweden - still doing it's part. And that was before the Swedish Democrats came into power.
14:36 November 3, 2010 by wolverine2k
@gorgepir

I am not a supporter of SD but I think they are making quite a logical statement. Sweden today is already in a mess when it comes to jobs, demographic changes, etc. It is not a one day work to change all the wrongs and make right. And the socialist nature of Sweden is making the problems worse.

So a logical reason would be put a halt on importing people from outside, make a stable environment and concentrate on solving the current issues. That way you have a fixed variable which provides more probability of solving an issue.

The social dems are idiots if not anything else. Their strategy is to make a secondary class of citizens comprising of immigrants. If you follow their logic, you will see high class natives who can afford everything and a second class immigrant society always in need. And it is not just the immigrants that this policy will affect. It will also affect native swedes who will have to compete with the immigrants effectively bringing down the overall salary levels and standards of living.

Such a policy might work in an economy state but will not work in a socialist state. Lower cost of living is simply not supported in Sweden because of its socialist nature. For ex. all persons today can afford to eat an 80 SEK lunch and a janitor can afford similar luxuries that a bus/taxi driver, a barber, a computer engineer, etc. can afford.

If the proposal from social dems gets accepted, one will have a society with multiple divisions and disparities which will only lead to increase in class/economy parity based racism. This kind of society will ultimately lead to more crime and set a seed where the rich become richer and the poorer will remain poorer.

And no, I am not a native swede. i.e. I am an immigrant who was asked to come to Sweden by a high tech company because of my skills. And my country is facing similar problems like Sweden is because of stupid policies of politically correct parties like social dems.
14:42 November 3, 2010 by Sam1
First of all its true SD a single minded agenda with a single narrow goal with attack on human race.

They have proved to be stupid with no logic. First they complain some immigrants are not working and are on social welfare, then they say immigrants, or BLACK hair culture even if American or Spanish or etc Should not be given employment...

I need to develop a racist mind with a sh*t brain to understand their ideas..Dumb idiots, if they had good points in their ideas it was 2% of their goal...Okay stop illegal immigration.

but dont attack human race with your white suprimacy.

Sweden should make a new law against racism powered by Democracy and throw them out useless people.
14:52 November 3, 2010 by gorgepir
@wolverine

Two things I think are worth mentioning about your response.

I think you missed my point, there are no logical points in the argument that was presented here. Of course it is easy to make some points after the debate is over, that just proves you didn't have the answers anyway. And to assume that all of Sweden's problems would be solved by stopping immigration is ridiculous at best. That is the only answer that SD provides to any matter (except for taking Swedish troops out of Afghanistan)

And secondly, of course a non Swede would think like you do, since you really don't understand the Swedish psyche. This has been what Sweden has been doing for the past 30 years, and except a (very small 5%) minority, everyone thought that it is the correct thing to do. Of course this does not mean that it is perfect and doesn't need fixing (in my opinion it needs a huge overhall), but just because SD voices are raised and are the loudest does not mean it really is an issue. Playing on fear is probably the oldest trick in the book to get into power.

But it is quite interesting that that as a party that prides itself as "being Swedish", and defending "Swedishness" it rarely attracts Swedes and mostly attracts non-Swedes like yourself or many others in this forum. I wonder could it be because Swede's actually like their (socialist) system and it just doesn't make sense for you as a foreigner?
14:53 November 3, 2010 by Nemesis
It is good to see the eugenics of the social democrats being raised.

After all sweden democrat members were raised by social democrats and fed the Sweden is superior line, for decades.

The sweden democrats is only a case of what the social democrats sowed in society, coming home to roost.
15:00 November 3, 2010 by Cornelius Hamelberg
Since conflict is an essential element of drama, in the theatre, the Swedish Parliament it's been getting more interesting from an entirely theatrical point of view ever since the Sweden Democrats were elected to take part the general debates. Now young Jimmie Åkesson is exchanging barbs with Mama Mona Sahlin. Whatever next!

That was an uppercut that Jim delivered.

Ama looking forward to the forthcoming duel / shoot-out over Afghanistan, that should be taking place between Lars Ohly and Washington's/ The White House's most faithful lackey in the Swedish Rikksdag/ Parliament ( since the time of Papa Bush ) namely, our foreign minister the Hon. Carl Bildt.

Ohly the human being has made himself most precise and clear when he said - in yesterdays Metro :

”Vi känner att det finns en stark och växande opinion som bygger på att man tycker att det här är fel insatser. Kriget måste avbrytas så fort som möjligt.”

"We feel there is a strong and growing body of opinion based on that you think this is the wrong action. The war must be stopped as soon as possible, sometime. "

The Sverige Demokrater are not the Ku Klux Klan, no matter what Mona Sahlin says. IN fact it seems that she needs them – to try to counter-distinguish herself.

It's unfortunate that instead of sticking to the SD's ideas on IMMIGRATION which is a main issue on their agenda, Mona Sahlin wants to tar and feather Jimmi Åkesson's party as having ”racist roots”.

Åkesson's reference to the scourge of what was once ”race biology” and typical of the age in continental Europe ( sans Great Britain) all under the auspices of Social Democracy - is not funny either – and the lesson here is that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones - for Swedish history being what it is - cannot be changed or falsified and in this case Mona Sahlin cannot absolve the Great Social Democrats of having had a racist pedigree. - to the chagrin of all Social Democrats. - to all of whom Åkesson should then be entitled to say , ” Shame on all of you!” even though accusing the Social Democrats of having a racist pedigree just because of the Race Biology Institute having flourished during their tenure of Office - is as absurd as accusing William Hague ( the author of William Wilberforce) of having been a slave trader, just because some ancestors - some former pirates and slave traders like Sir John Hawkins and been knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I – for precisely those activities.

Meanwhile, seems that Deputy Prime MInister Jan Björklund has some backing for what he's saying - just look at what's being said back in Merry England:

http://news.google.com/news/more?q=BBC+-+i...d=0CCMQqgIoADAA
15:15 November 3, 2010 by Geno44
"Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. Prejudice, which he pretends to hate, is his absolute lawgiver..."

-- Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus", 1833
15:26 November 3, 2010 by wolverine2k
@ gorgepir

I agree with your points and I don't deny it. SD is racist and their tones should change for people to do any logical communication with them. And one can't blame everything on immigration. But other parties needs to address problems by looking at the root causes and not just shelving them off under the carpet.

BTW, I didn't see any comments on the other points I raised on social dems policy of hiring immigrants at a lower wage, most of my post was on that one.

Maybe immigrants to Sweden are more aware of how adverse and uncontrolled demographic changes leads to uncontrollable situations in a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society. And maybe Swedes are too politically correct for their own good.

But the point is: Racism should not be allowed/tolerated, be it in the sense SD is doing or the social disparity/apathy that social dems are proposing. And the way to go about is to reduce the disparity in the society in all levels, be it color, caste, creed, money, etc. Thats what socialism stands for.
15:51 November 3, 2010 by gorgepir
@wolverine

I definitely agree that the Swedish immigration systems needs reform and maybe even an entire overhall, it is just not sustainable. I just wanted to point out what I meant more clearly. That is why I did not disagree with the other points, as they were valid comments.
16:04 November 3, 2010 by maxbrando
All of the commenters fail to mention that the SD got a lot of seats in the Swedish parliament. This means a lot of folks voted for them. Will the SD opponents just try to shout them out of existence, call them racists, and dismiss the concerns of this bloc of voters. I believe the opponents do not wish to face the issues and concerns of the voters for the SD.
16:40 November 3, 2010 by Cornelius Hamelberg
No mis-understandings please - If I may be permitted to re-post a corrected edition of what I wrote in a great hurry - and here it is :

Since conflict is an essential element of drama, in the theatre, in the Swedish Parliament it's been getting more interesting from an entirely theatrical point of view ever since the Sweden Democrats were elected to take part in the general debates. Now young Jimmie Åkesson is exchanging barbs, not blows with Mama Mona Sahlin. Whatever next!

That was an uppercut that Jim delivered.

Ama looking forward to the forthcoming duel / shoot-out over Afghanistan, that should be taking place between Lars Ohly and Washington's/ The White House's most faithful lackey in the Swedish Rikksdag/ Parliament ( since the time of Papa Bush ) namely, our foreign minister the Hon. Carl Bildt.

Ohly the human being has made himself most precise and clear when he said - in yesterdays Metro :

”Vi känner att det finns en stark och växande opinion som bygger på att man tycker att det här är fel insatser. Kriget måste avbrytas så fort som möjligt.”

"We feel there is a strong and growing body of opinion based on that we think this is the wrong kind of action/ efforts/ contributions. THE WAR MUST BE STOPPED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE " ( the emphasis is clear. )

The Sverige Demokrater are not the Ku Klux Klan, no matter what Mona Sahlin or anyone else says. In fact it seems that she needs them – to try to counter-distinguish herself.

It's unfortunate that instead of sticking to the SD's ideas on IMMIGRATION which is a main issue on their agenda, Mona Sahlin wants to tar and feather Jimmie Åkesson's party as having ”racist roots”.

Åkesson's reference to the scourge of what was once ”race biology” and typical of the age in continental Europe ( but not Great Britain) all under the auspices of Social Democracy - is not funny either – and the lesson here is that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones - for Swedish history being what it is - cannot be changed or falsified and in this case Mona Sahlin cannot absolve the Great Social Democrats of having had a racist pedigree or racist roots - to the chagrin of all Social Democrats. - to all of whom Åkesson should then be entitled to say , ” Shame on all of you!” even though accusing the Social Democrats of having a racist pedigree/roots just because of the Race Biology Institute having flourished during their tenure of Office - is as absurd as accusing William Hague ( the author of William Wilberforce) of having been a slave trader, just because some British ancestors - some former pirates and slave traders like Sir John Hawkins and been knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I – for precisely those activities.

Anyway Hague is a Tory....a party that started long after Elizabeth I

Meanwhile, seems that Deputy Prime Minister Jan Björklund has some backing for what he's saying - just look at what's being said back in Merry England:

http://www.google.se/search?q=BBC:+Immigra...mp;ved=0CA8Q_AU

About the race biology period , it was everybody's Sweden that was more or less responsible for tolerating/ encouraging that spirit of scientific enquiry and not any particular party of that period... I went to the exhibition about this at the Ethnographic/ Peoples'Museum last year ...please corrcet me if I'm wrong...
16:41 November 3, 2010 by Roy E
maxbrando,

You are most likely correct. Politicians would much rather 'whistle past the graveyard' than deal with the problems they've created.

It's much easier divert attention by vilifying, attacking, and assassinating the character of someone else than it is to be held accountable and defend your own actions.
16:43 November 3, 2010 by cowboykodp
"Will the SD opponents just try to shout them out of existence, call them racists, and .."

YES!

If it quacks like a duck.......
16:53 November 3, 2010 by absolut
@Alf Garnett: "eugenics research !! Obviously something Hitler & his henchmen thought up"

You are wrong. It was Hitler who copied Sweden when it came to eugenics and ethnic cleansing. Not the other way round!!!

The fact is that in 1921 The Swedish Riksdag voted for the world's first racial biological institute called Statens Rasbiologiska Institut in Uppsala. Their justification was that it was "a nation's right and duty to protect itself against reproduction of people and individuals who were destined from the start for prison and mental asylum". So the inspiration for racial biology did not come from Nazi Germany, because it did not exist there in 1921.

You can read more about the Swedish history in Historien om Sverige by Herman Lindqvist.
23:22 November 3, 2010 by Tanskalainen
Would someone PLEASE sell Mona Sahlin to the Roma? Sahlin--Stalin?
04:03 November 4, 2010 by alistairwhitman
Are SD racist...seems to be. Are the Sosso racist...um I seem to remember a ranking member of the your Sossos calling a moonlight doorman but full time doctor of Arab descent a 'effin' black head a few years back in Sthlm. Doesn't make the party racist simply stating no one is without sin.

Sweden has a very legitimate immigration problem that the Sosso and the other left of centre parties have failed to address and the result is having Jimmie in the party. At any rate at least there will be some interesting barbs being thrown in the Riksdag.

Oh...and Jimmie was spot on about Eugenics research: ask any scientist educated in this country and they'll hang their head in shame and attempt the change the subject.
04:52 November 4, 2010 by Jarvilainennen
I think Jan Bkörlund of the liberal party put out the best argument.

The "entry-level work" on government support is a possibility for companies to basically kick an old employee out and then hire another migrant or perhaps a student/part time worker just to get the support money. Of course I´m only suspecting, but it isn´t that hard to imagine it happening.

I´ve heard people are "smoked" out or maybe urged to drop their career after a few years as they become too expensive for the employer.

Hearsay, but it´s in the air, funnily, the bigger the company and more connections to state-level.

One can dream up an image of immigrants used as merchendice. How´s that?
05:01 November 4, 2010 by ericrufinosiah
I believe as well as the voters who had voted for Jimme Akesson and SD,also believe that Jimme Akesson and SD are not

against a total ban on immigrants.Please read this,a lawyer

while defending some mosques during the trial of Geert Wilders

" didn't rise for the Judge because of his religion "

In a court of law,the Judge acts for the Soveriegn and should

anyone feels that he/she shouldn't rise for the Judge because

of his/her religion then he/she shouldn't have attend Court,

be it as an observer or lawyer' next time just call the Judge

and tell him/her that you cant attend court as it's time for

prayer.
05:48 November 4, 2010 by Jarvilainennen
Just to continue a bit on my little "conspiracy-theory", I used to drive a truck. When i got my license there was no EU schooling, you just went into driving school and you got yourself the c-license in a few weeks.

Nowdays you must have an EU- schooling for this. The young guys at this "basic course for logistics" say it takes 3 years to get through this. You´ll have an "intermediate driving permit" so you can go drive a truck in a transport company, while going to school at the same time.

Actually, you learn how to drive a truck or lorry in about 2 weeks. Three years would teach you to repair the whole damn lorry, but they teach them how to unload, drive a forklift (permit for that too) tie the load and get ADR-permit, HYGIENE-permit, and so on.

3 years. That´s right. THREE YEARS just to learn how to drive a vehicle that you can take stuff from place A to place B with.

And all of us older drivers have to go to a course too, to be formally proficient for something we´ve been doing for 20 years.

This probably has only a little to do with immigrants if anything, never mind the SD, but just to continue on my rant on:

"Every time you see something, ask where all the money goes."
09:31 November 4, 2010 by Alf Garnett
@absolut: #21 so you mean Hitler was just an innocent bystander & a cover up for the Swedish quest for the super being?

Or did the Swedes take the lead from the dirty murdering ethnic cleansing commies in Russia?
10:05 November 4, 2010 by xguild
If your a racist their is nothing you can ever do ro say in your life will have any value, its as simple as that. This guy is a hitler in the making, his allure is that he has a good plan for solving immigration on paper, but then again so did hitler.
10:45 November 4, 2010 by Alf Garnett
@xguild, can you say honestly with hand on heart, may god strike you dead that you have never uttered a racist comment or thought a racist thought, eg the bloody American/Englishman/German/Jew/Bosnian/Serb etc etc?.

Almost everyone has at some time had these kind of thoughts & they are racist.

By the way, the Nazi Germans plans were not drawn up by Hitler.
12:41 November 4, 2010 by snowwolf
If the SD are 1/10 as bad as the Nazis, they would have achieved their goal already. Don't push them too hard liberals, you may regret it! For they can easily turn Sweden into another Balkan.
13:54 November 4, 2010 by cowboykodp
@snowface

And I imagine you would be on the front lines committing those commendable atrocities you so advertise.
14:34 November 4, 2010 by xguild
@Alf Garnett

There is a difference between an inappropriate thought or poorly chosen word and using your political position in society in creating a policy that definitivly seperates a person based on the color of his skin or the country in which he was born.

What seperates me from a Racist is that I acknowledge that racism is wrong and while I may mistep on occassion, I do so with regret and Im apologetical about. This guy is proud to be a Nazi.

So your saying Hitler should get a pass? He played his part, he didn't have to come concieve his plans on his own, more importantly he was in a position to prevent them plans from being a reality.
19:27 November 4, 2010 by Iraniboy
Mr Jimmy!!!

We don't need to dig down in to your roots to see how it looks like! For those who have forgotten the SD member who claimed:

'Blacks are programmed to rape woman and children' or their member who said

'Those immigrants who protest should be get a shot between their eyes their body shoudl be out in pockets and then posted back to their country.'
05:33 November 5, 2010 by Jarvilainennen
Iraniboy:

I know who said: "those immigrants who..."

But who said "Blacks are programmed to rape...?"

Some blacks ARE programmed to rape, particularily in South Africa, Some people in the Balkans ARE programmed to steal their women even in broad daylight, and some people are programmed to steal. Surely they weren´t born like that but their strange cultures taught them these habits.

And sure enough, selectiveness is used and should be used with immigrants. Could it be that as you get more and more of them, up until a point you can´t handle it anymore, you get a large amount of people with failed programming?
09:03 November 5, 2010 by tommycapes
"The Sweden Democrats are an un-Swedish phenomenon and should remain so. The Sweden Democrats are a party sprung out of the white power and racist movements," she continued.

this comment annoys me the most. Swedes are in absolute denial that they are a fundamentally predjudiced society. sahlin and her communist party created the sweden democrats through their misguided belief that sweden is the worlds superior society.

i am glad the sweden democrats got in because it will create a discussion about rascism istead of it just being swept under the carpet and ignored. I hate racism but i think i hate socialism more.
09:26 November 5, 2010 by samwise
who believes the socialists can gain votes by non-stop trashing the nationalists for 4 years?
13:05 November 5, 2010 by Iraniboy
@Jarvilainennen

I actually didn't quote copletely. He actually said. Black Africans are GENETICALLY programmed to rape chidlren and women! You can find it in different Swedish website and also thelocal too. When he say genetically it is cleaar he is racist. These evidences show the level of hatred against people of ethnic minorities created by SD and its members.
13:37 November 5, 2010 by Alf Garnett
Comment: @xguild: No I do not beleive Adolf should get a pass, I was trying to illuminate the Irony & Hypocrisy of politics & politicians, who conveniently deny there involvement or that of predecessors when it suits their purpose. Yes we all transgress now & again, but although most people judge people they meet on personal merits, irrelevant of skin colour, they still have racist leanings toward people of differing race/culture as an entirety. Whether Åkesson is a Nazi, I can't comment, that he is a racist & has leanings towards the Nazis, more than likely, whatever his beliefs he's a politician & in that respect no different to all the other multi-faceted snakes in parliament. @samwise: more likely to loose votes.
13:47 November 5, 2010 by Syftfel
Mona (and Iraniboy) is the one who needs to be taught a lesson here. For this woman to stoop to such lows, in the Riksdag no less, is just more proof positive that she is unfit to hold any position of power. She has become a travesty of herself! She ought to realize that her marxist gibberish no longer has an audience in Sweden.
15:24 November 5, 2010 by Cornelius Hamelberg
There’s something known as “hets mot folkgrupp” which is a criminal offence.

Whereas the SD is not guilty of that - or has not been taken to court for that by any of the self -righteous non-racist noisemakers - in Merry England, this is the kind of fallout to be expected from electioneering malpractice.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/...h_Declared_Void

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=sv&r...ham&spell=1
20:01 November 5, 2010 by snowwolf
I will vote for the SD next time! For spite!
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23 May 16:27

Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »

"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »

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Swedish journalist and columnist Ola Tedin to reflect on how a sometimes uncritical media appears to serve the interests of the Swedish state
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Harald Kindermann, the German ambassador to Sweden, talks to The Local about the importance of the German language, nuclear power, and the legacy of the Stasi.
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The Local's coverage of the baptism of Princess Estelle
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The Local catches up with Sweden’s comedian of the year Al Pitcher and preview our first ever “Local Lockdown” video segment.
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Sweden strips foreign doctoral candidates of the same rights as other tax-paying migrant workers, argue a group of doctoral candidates from the Royal Institute for Technology (KTH).
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Sweden looking for redemption at Euros
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Swedish word of the day

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adjective

Lång means long, tall and can be used for height, distance or time.

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