Sweden finally gets a government after nearly 5 months.

A social democrat prime minister governing with the support of two centrist parties from the opposition as well as the greens. For this to happen the socialist prime minister has come to an agreement where he will pretty much be implementing policies that the opposition would have implemented had they been in power, policies far from the left of the spectrum. 60% of the voting public voted for center/liberal/conservative parties and we've ended up with a socialist party in government with the greens.

You couldn't make it up :-|

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Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige

A social democrat prime minister governing with the support of two centrist parties from the opposition as well as the greens. For this to happen the socialist prime minister has come to an agreement where he will pretty much be implementing policies that the opposition would have implemented had they been in power, policies far from the left of the spectrum. 60% of the voting public voted for center/liberal/conservative parties and we've ended up with a socialist party in government with the greens.

You couldn't make it up :-|

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Representative democracy is fùcked, bgm. Largely because the representatives in question have forgotten to represent the people who voted for them, preferring instead to interpret their mandate as carte blanche to do whatever the fùck they like for four or five years.
It’s a bad, bad business.

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Originally Posted by Burney

Representative democracy is fùcked, bgm. Largely because the representatives in question have forgotten to represent the people who voted for them, preferring instead to interpret their mandate as carte blanche to do whatever the fùck they like for four or five years.
It’s a bad, bad business.

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All this is to keep out the Swedish Democrats, who will of course only grow because of this. One wonders what they'll do in 2022 when the Swedish Democrats will probably have close to a quarter of the vote.

The only good thing to come out of this is with the center/liberal parties going to the dark side and supporting the socialists we are now closer to having a conservative block. Hopefully the two parties left from the former center/liberal alliance will sweep up enough votes from the other two parties to give a conservative block a majority in the next election. Quite ironic that the decision of the two parties who left the liberal alliance to prevent the Swedish Democrats from having any say will probably end in the Swedish Democrats being part of a government in 2022 :hehe:

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Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige

All this is to keep out the Swedish Democrats, who will of course only grow because of this. One wonders what they'll do in 2022 when the Swedish Democrats will probably have close to a quarter of the vote.

The only good thing to come out of this is with the center/liberal parties going to the dark side and supporting the socialists we are now closer to having a conservative block. Hopefully the two parties left from the former center/liberal alliance will sweep up enough votes from the other two parties to give a conservative block a majority in the next election. Quite ironic that the decision of the two parties who left the liberal alliance to prevent the Swedish Democrats from having any say will probably end in the Swedish Democrats being part of a government in 2022 :hehe:

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It is extraordinarily short-sighted to exclude from political discourse or legitimately acquired power any popularly-held idea or viewpoint. It will always come bubbling up eventually - and more damagingly than would otherwise be the case.
If Brexit has done anything it should surely have taught people that.

Sweden is already at the point where balkanization is inevitable. People will look back in Centuries to come as it lays in a burning heap and ask "what the **** were they playing at, was it all worth it to have Ibrahimovic play for them?"