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Violence among Swedish teenage girls is on the rise, new statistics show, having increased by about 50 percent since 1994.
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So Reinfeldt's been an outstanding success then? Well at least if all you care about is cash and economic data, but of course a total failure if you have concerns about the wider health of society.
And Swedish society is clearly locked into a downward spiral. You don't need the newspaper headlines to tell you that, you just need to use your eyes as you walk around Stockholm. The "yoof" Sweden's real claim to fame when I arrived are now just as idiotic, dopped up and violent as in the worst parts of London. Total failure.
But thus it was ever with government's who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The big difference between the centre right in the UK and here in Sweden is that PMs like David Cameron combine economic liberalism with social responsibility. For one Cameron stands for effective border controls, immigration limits and an ending of the abuse of the asylum system. He has also made it clear that multicultalism is dead, as has Germany's Angela Merkel.
Mr and Mrs Täby meanwhile are heading the other way. Still high on the wiff of their own one-world moral superiority, they prescribe open borders, multi culturalism, a blind eye to terrorism and other imported crimes, loose sentencing, weak authority in schools, lax drug controls, and a very East German style of political indoctrination and intimidation for those who don't buy into their ignorance. They keep bleating and moralizing while Swedish schools and society slide from bad to worse.
The opposition meanwhile are in a state of disarray and don't appear to be much better on most of the central issues.
Sweden really is heading into the abyss.
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Spot on.
The Swedes have lived in a comfortable fantasy land so long they have no ability to see reality from fantasy.
They are such nice, kind people that they assume others are the same.
Unfortunately, hang around Sergelstorg and look at the stats and you will see that they are certainly not the same.
Letting the worst, most violent, dysfunctional cultures of the world pour into your borders is not a sane policy.
Sanity will eventually kick in once the reality checks become frequent enough. It's already starting.
The fecklessness, coddling, and emasculated helplessness of Swedish kids on the other hand is a whole other problem. Again, too much comfort can be a bad thing.
here alot of people who live in walfare actually want to work, whereas in other country theyll just not care and keep leeching .
Taking people from cultures who are totally messed up sure affects but its not only that, sweden has serious problems from old generation bad parenting and alcohol thats just a vicious circle.
most swedes i know have some sort of issue with their parents.
thing is sweden actually has alot of places where the young ones get help, thats something im sure no where in the world has as good.and rightly so because a propper childhood is key when it comes to avoiding future problems and criminals.
"Good manners cost nothing" start with that and then maybe, just maybe, you won't have so much crime...
P.S. Swedish women/girls smoke too much!
Rant over....:)