Here is the first news summary of this week.
The Town of Hultsfred refuses to give money to immigrants.
Somewhat of an interesting trend has started where municipality refuses to comply with the state. They don’t do it out of some ideological purity but simply because the state is dumping its problems on the municipalities. The Swedish migration authority is initially responsible for asylum seekers, they can place them wherever they feel like and the municipalities cannot refuse. When the asylum seeker gets a residence permit they become the municipalities responsibility and economic burden. Some towns are in the situation now that they can not possibly welcome any more people. They are even renting hotels and buying flats just to have somewhere to house anyone. Well now some towns are saying no, they won’t provide any financial support anymore and they don’t even have any more possible places for accommodation, Hultsfred is one of those municipalities.
A situation where the municipalities go against the state and willfully break the law has, as far as I know, never been seen before. It will be highly interesting to see what the government does. Consider it perhaps the Swedish version of state nullification.
None of the “send me instead” activists actually wanted to be sent instead.
This is a rather funny article. After age testing a bunch of supposedly young asylum seekers the migration authority figured out many of them have lied about their age and they are in fact, adults. The migration authority will thus send them back, this sparked a group of activists to snap pictures of themselves holding a sign saying “send me instead”. The news page “Nya Tider”, a page critical towards immigration, found a way to troll these people. If you can offer a job to one of those asylum seekers they will get a residency permit, Nya Tider called up the activists one by one with an interesting offer. The news page will hire one of the asylum seekers if the activists agree to take a one-way ticket to Afghanistan and settle there. They quite literally offer to send them instead. You won’t be surprised to know that not a single one of the activists was interested in that offer. Troll lever over 9000?
New art in the Stockholm subway
This is one of those cases where Sweden should be renamed Absurdistan. New “art” is now displayed on the walls of four subway stations in Stockholm. The art consists of naked old men and menstruating women. I guess further comments are not necessary?
The Center party wants to keep the alcohol monopoly
This is just to highlight how left the Swedish right is. The center party tries to market themselves as a freedom leaning liberal’ish (in the old sense of the word, not American liberal) kind of party. Well, they just decided that they are not interested in removing the government monopoly on the sale of Alcohol. What is the justification?
Vi vill inte utsätta svenska folket för det experimentet. Därför tycker vi att detaljandelsmonopolet i Systembolaget är en jätteviktig del i svenskt folkhälsoarbete, sade Anders W Jonsson.
That statement can be roughly translated as this:
We don’t want to expose the Swedish people to that experiment. Because of that we think the alcohol monopoly is a crucial part of the Swedish public health policy.
An experiment is an interesting way of describing a long overdue normalization with most of the rest of the world.
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Source: In the Madhou.se – News from the madhouse on the 2nd of October