In the Media

This caught my interest when I browsed through the online news sources this morning:

• ”Sacked embassy man runs for Sweden Democrat job” writes The Local. According to the article, the fired Kent Ekeroth participated in an online discussion where he wrote that he thought Europe is on the brink of collapse due to ”completely irresponsible immigration policies, naivety and left-wing influences combined with a fascination for Islamism and contempt for our own cultural inheritance.” I don’t care much for the Sweden Democrats and their xenophobia, but on one account I give them right: Europe’s apologetic attitude towards Islamism is a serious problem.
• The party secretaries of the four parties in Sweden’s centre-right government write a joint article in today’s Dagens Nyheter. They want to put an end to speculations about a merger between the parties. Instead, the four stress that the parties will remain independent and equal partners within the Alliance for Sweden. Personally, I’m not surprised even though I would have preferred an even tighter union. For far too long, Swedish political culture has been all about the big, almighty Social Democrats with four much smaller parties barking like small dog to get attention. One big, united liberal-conservative party could challenge that culture. But I suppose the Alliance will do for now. So far, it has proven to work very well.