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Meanwhile in Sweden
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:35 pm
by Watchman
A situation that one may have to keep an eye on
Swedish election: far right makes gains but overall result on knife-edge
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... SApp_Other
Re: Meanwhile in Sweden
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:24 pm
by Arrowhead
Watchman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:35 pm
A situation that one may have to keep an eye on
Swedish election: far right makes gains but overall result on knife-edge
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... SApp_Other
Looks like the rest of the votes are due to be counted tomorrow (Wednesday). Incredible to think that overseas votes could ultimately swing it.
Re: Meanwhile in Sweden
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 5:02 pm
by Bones McCoy
Arrowhead wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:24 pm
Watchman wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:35 pm
A situation that one may have to keep an eye on
Swedish election: far right makes gains but overall result on knife-edge
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... SApp_Other
Looks like the rest of the votes are due to be counted tomorrow (Wednesday). Incredible to think that overseas votes could ultimately swing it.
Another potential "Stolen Election" myth.
We wuz winning and then they counted all the Libs votes.
Re: Meanwhile in Sweden
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:33 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Perception among many in Sweden is that it all went to shit after Syrian refugees were admitted. But the murder rate (which I always take as the best indicator of violent crime) doesn't really bear that out. Refugees, as I understand it, surged in 2015. That's the year that the murder rate started rising, but it's surely too soon for the Syrians to have had that big an effect. Since then, it's not changed very much at all. Though doubtless the Sweden Democrats have done very well out of Syrian refugees.
Re: Meanwhile in Sweden
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2026 11:42 am
by Tubby Isaacs
Well, we've got a few more years of data now. The Syrian refugees must surely have turned Sweden into Detroit by now, right? Um, no. Perhaps an outlier, but murder rate now lower than all but one year since 1969.
Where's that Peter Sweden guy? Maybe he's moved to the US where he's doing a tour of the states with worse murder rates. Which is all of them. Even Maine, with the oldest US population, and being very rural has a murder rate over twice as high.