Um.

[marshtide]

SFI is currently using themes which run for three weeks each. Our last one was, uncontroversially, "study techniques".

Our next one is "the 2010 election".

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We're going to have debates.

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One guy has already announced that his sister works for Folkpartiet ("The People's Party", right-wing) so we should all vote for them.

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This is going to go so well. And I am totally not going to get angry at all.

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oh dear

[dancing_moon]

For a moment there, I thought you meant the Dansk Folkeparti (like Sverigedemokraterna, only with more power) and boggled a bit.

the worst thing is, that during the nineties, I'd easily have put Folkpartiet as the best out of a bad lot of the blue parties :/ Lately, however, they've turned less and less liberal (which is, uh, kind of the point of that party) and worryingly interested in restricting "foreign" culture - supposedly to further integration but by god, some of those suggestions are so painfully stupid that I want to hurl

Re: oh dear

[marshtide]

Yeah... I find them worrying, in that they're not so extreme as to completely alienate voters but seem to be sliding in directions I really, really dislike. That said, I'm still trying to get a proper handle on Swedish politics. I think I have a very broad grasp of who stands where now but not of the finer details. (I'm planning to do a bunch more reading up over the weekend so as to be forearmed... >> )

Re: oh dear

[dancing_moon]

It's always changing, even more so since the latest election when all the right parties got together. I don't like that, honestly, I don't want an american style 2-choices style election. Much prefer a group of people with different ideas arguing and forming new coalitions as needed

Re: oh dear

[marshtide]

Yeah. Not a very appealing set-up, really. (Not to mention that I have huge problems with the idea that anyone is willing to join up with the christian democrats. What the hell.)

By the way, I'll be in Stockholm tomorrow, but it sounds like you're pretty sick so if I'm going to grab books maybe it should be another time.

Re: oh dear

[dancing_moon]

Yes, unfortunately I can't come. You're not in town on Sunday?

Btw, maybe you can do some research on and mention "Kalle Anka-partiet" (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalle_Anka_Partiet). They're at least pretty innocent ;)

Re: oh dear

[marshtide]

Nah, I had stuff to get done on Sunday. Not that I actually did, but I tried. Another weekend! I can usually borrow a bus pass on weekends so it's not a big deal to go into Stockholm. :)

Better that than sverigedemokraterna. ;;;;