Published: 11 Jan 13 17:18 CET | Print version
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A local chapter of the beleaguered Centre Party has demanded that party leadership scrap the new proposal on open borders, in an op-ed that warns “Sweden will be overrun by illiterate clans”.
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Any four-year old understands that if Sweden were to become the only country in the world that allows unrestricted immigration the destitute, illiterate, sick, disabled, and unemployed would come flocking in droves looking for a better life.
See these type of talks hurts those immigrants who are own their own and pay taxes, rules of talk is to not include all, use the word " a few" .
By the way , it is Sweden who export the highest level of explosive and guns to other countries where people are dying by these swedish made weapons.
It's a noble idea to offer sanctuary to the entire world's poor, sick, endangered and repressed but (1) how can Sweden's tiny population possibly pay for them all?, and (2) is it a good idea to drain certain countries, and even one particular continent, of their entire populations?
The poor Centre Party is about to implode under the weight of this nonsense. rank and file membership think its leadership has gone completely and are abandoning the party in their droves.
Get a grip Annie, but I suspect it's too late for you and the party.
In fact, the Center Party (and most modern Swedish politicians) would probably find the political views of their own grandfathers unacceptable.
It's Orwellian.
The article lists points against all the controversial points in the proposed new partyprogram (or whatever the party-leadership-document is called). Namely, new inheritence laws, abolished duty to go to school, allow polygamy, free immigration. Then it has a paragraph with the punchline that bigots think speak of immigration but is really just a reeteration of the critique:
If the program is accepted sweden will become overpopulated(immigration-critique) by illiterate(school-duty-abolishment critique) overlarge families(polygamy critique) that lacking work (industrial critique) .... solve inheritence disputes with kalasjnikovs (changed inheritencelaw critique).
Briliant! The party leadership react with predictable hysteria. AND expose their own prejudices. Personally i think quite a bit of the suggest program (or whatever) is rather interesting, like getting the state out of marriage. But thats not the point. Its just a joy to see fools (party leadership, the press) outmanouvered by thoughtfull and clever people.