Published: 14 Nov 12 13:23 CET | Print version
Updated: 14 Nov 12 13:23 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/44418/20121114/
Sweden Democrat MP Erik Almqvist will step down as the party's economic policy spokesman over racist statements he made on a film clip and his subsequent denials, party leader Jimmie Åkesson announced on Wednesday.
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If SD abandons rarcism ( which is the only reason for its surge ) then it will be like the Nazi witjhout gas .
Cowards like always pretending and showing a false smile. Shame of them
What PC crap, at which level is it appropriate to call a woman "a little whore" being pc or otherwise.
Would you ever look at any of your female relatives and call her "a little whore" - give it a shot and feedback with the response, providing you still have the capacity so to do.
With this lot, boorishness & dangerousness can quickly become deadly. I hope no Sweden Democrat moves into my neighborhood.
Now I understand how Swedish politics works!
Kind of telling when a society cares more about what some local politician from a non-ruling political party has to say than what the Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister has been involved in.
And no, I'm not trying to "deflect" from the topic since I'm not an SD supporter.
Actually the argument about whose country is Sweden can be considered the fundamental paradox in Swedish society in relation with immigrants (I mean immigrants and refugees).
In one hand there is systematic process to convince immigrants that Sweden is their country (by different institutions, form language to medias), in another hand there is an obvious fact that Swedes neither have the capacity nor the ability or the mentality to accept immigrants as a member of their society (an this story is not about just the first generation immigrants, it's about second generation as well).
I believe that immigration to Sweden is fundamentally meaningless base on this paradox (you will never be considered part of the society (no matter what social class you belong, or what country you come west or east).
If you somehow ended up in Sweden for some reasons, try to get out of it as soon as possible, before it becomes too late ( unfortunately, mostly realize their mistake when it is too late!)
I'm sure most normal folks that don't share their views would be happy to sign a clause when we next vote to never visit the place!
Funny thought,
Even the racists in the USA often never f&%#ked up this badly,at least we see these drunken B&%%#¤ds for what the really are,be thankfull for their "race" being so obvious to the rest of society!
Let's have some fun watching these real animals falling one- by-one at their own hands! Dig a trentch or the king can buy them a cold-a## island!
I give them another year or 2, they will be extinct, they will continue to get caught out for what they truly stand for
By the way...
Has anyone noticed how UGLY these SD dudes are?
Look at them!!!
www.racistreport.org -- Global Movement Against Racism!!!
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What Swedes should be upset about is the continued "honor killings" (as reported here in The Local this week), and the rising unemployment rate.