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Swedish Politics

Isnt it time to change the law in Sweden?

July 11, 2010

This week that wretched rag Aftonbladet are claiming the scalp of the Swedish Employment Minister Sven-Otto Littorin. The ‘newspaper’ claims he resigned the day after he was confronted by an Aftonbladet report who asked him if had ever paid for sex. The Minister cited ‘family reasons’ and a tough custody battle with his ex for [...]

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Why Now? Why This?

March 12, 2010

I am amazed that the Swedish parliament has wasted time debating and voting on the alleged Armenian Genocide of 1915.  I use the word ‘alleged’ here as I know very little about this time in history. The Swedish Parliament has passed a law today recognising that there was genocide agains the Armenians, Assyrians and Pontic [...]

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Lars ‘Two Faced’ Ohly

March 5, 2010

You couldnt make this up. Lars Ohly, leader of the Left Party ‘Vänsterpartiet‘ is against private schools, fair enough thats what I would expect from the Far Left. However Expressen today reveals both of Lars Ohly’s children go to..yes you guess it private schools!!! Now where a politicians sends his or her kids to school [...]

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Mona Sahlin, Lars Ohly and Maria Wetterstand would put household service workers in a RUT

March 2, 2010

So there we have it the Rödgröna have decided to remove the reduction in tax on  hushållsnära tjänsterna (household services.) Now many senior citizens who may be using household help may have to reduce that service because it will include more tax. Many painters and decoraters may lose their jobs because people may not have [...]

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Björklund puts his foot down

February 19, 2010

This weeks newsletter from Jan Björklund is an interesting one. He lashes out at Skolverket who want to strip out ancient history and the history of the Middle Ages from the curriculum. He writes: ‘Ancient History is the cradle of Western civilization. The Middle Ages is a crucial era when Sweden became Sweden, our share [...]

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Birgitta Ohlsson..Minister!

February 2, 2010

I was delighted to wake up to the news that Birgitta Ohlsson has been made a Minister in the Swedish Goverment. She will now serve as Swedens EU Minister. There was a vacancy because Cecilia Malmström (swoons!) became a EU Commissioner. Some of you will remember that I met Birgitta at the Swedish Parliament and [...]

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LMTYAS is the 67th most influential Folkpartiet blog online…

January 27, 2010

Thats ccording to the results of todays Politometern.  The results are based on over 930,000 inbound links from the Swedish blogosphere. I am rather surprised at that considering this is a blog about my life in Sweden rather than a Folkpartiet blog as such. Also my knowledge of many Swedish issues is still rather light. [...]

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Politometern

January 27, 2010

This is a good one for those of you interested in the political blogging scene. Sorry blogosphere. Martina Linda, has set up a Politometer to rate blogs by Party and she looks at the most influential ones. I sometimes think bloggers are more interesting than the politicians. I love the internet because you can read [...]

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Saab out of the frying pan and into the fire?

January 27, 2010

There is a lot of jubiliation in Sweden right now. Dutch company Spyker has reached an agreement with General Motors to buy Swedish car manufacturer SAAB. Spyker will pay 74 million USD and allow GM to retain shares of around 326 million USD.  They need to pay 50m USD by mid February I beleive. GM [...]

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Sweden leans left….or so say the Economist

January 22, 2010

There is an interesting article on the Economist site right now titled ‘Sweden Leans Left’. The Economist scribe believes the economic crisis will do the Reinfeldt led Centre Right government in just as it did to Carl Bildts Centre Right government in 1994. I think its easy to write that when you look at the [...]

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