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Swedish Politics

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 should be [...]

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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 that [...]

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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 of world Christianity, [...]

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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 volunteered [...]

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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.
Not to [...]

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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 different viewpoints [...]

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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 has owned [...]

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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 stats [...]

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Knocking on doors

December 9, 2009

Only recently I blogged about Swedes saying they didnt want politicos knocking on their door or calling them up to canvass.
Seved Monke, a fellow Folkpartist and Editor of the Stockholm FP newsletter wrote in this months edition about his first experience knocking on doors in Sweden. It was an interesting piece as its fairly standard [...]

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An Angry letter

December 9, 2009

One of the plus points of keeping a regular blog is the nice mail you get from readers who are too shy to comment.
I recently received an anonymous mail from a very angry Social Democrat. A reader of this blog and very disappointed with what he/she calls my ‘folkpartiet propaganda’.  The writer also slammed my [...]

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