The True Finns are an anti-immigration party, wary of the influence of Brussels. A measure of their rise is that at the last election they secured just 4% of the vote. Yesterday they got 19%, which put them in third place. They expect to be invited to talks about joining a coalition.
Unlike other countries in the eurozone, Finland’s parliament has the right to vote on EU requests to bail-out other countries. Potentially the strong showing of the True Finns could delay the rescue plan for Portugal.
“This is a big, big bang in Finish politics,” Jan Sundberg, a professor from Helsinki University, says. “This is a big, big change.”
And the response to the growing unrest, immigration concerns and, unemployment:
The man most likely to be prime minister is Jyrki Katainen. He went out of his way to play down Finland standing up to Brussels. “Finland,” he said, “has always been a responsible problem solver… this is about a common European cause.” In many different ways the pressure will be on Finland and the True Finns to compromise.
But, politically, Europe is restive, unsettled, anxious and increasingly losing patience with the elites and the parties in power.”
So, basically, the message from mainstream politicians is ; ignore it, maybe a file a human rights complaint against a populists to warn the rabble, continue on with the status quo, bankrupt the country to save the EU and *most important* arrange for assets and family to be relocated to a remote island.
I’ll believe it when I see it. For now it sounds like they went from Green Party status to NDP status.
Just say no.
Instead of iggy saying rise up rise up ,
the west is saying wake up wake up and it is working!!!
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i dunno, folks… king rat starts gnawing off his own leg…
i’d say change is in the air.
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Was Senator Jesse James Finish?
/moral and intellectual superiors
Whenever I think of Finland I usually can only think of hockey, which gets me to thinking. Don Cherry was decades ahead of all of us on the European file. He knew they were Pinkos long before it was cool to call European’s Pinkos.
That said, I hope the best for all liberty based parties rising in the free world, but I’m skeptical to say the least. The Leftard pressures on the European politicians relative to here in Canada must be crushing. And that’s a scary thought.
I’m thinking France is the country to keep an eye on with the Burka Ban and the mass prayer demonstrations in the streets. Fire meet gasoline.
I remember reading an article about the “true fins” a year ago where the columnist gave them absolutely no chance of growing their numbers labeling them as lunatics. Apparently times have changed.
I predict the other parties will somehow work together to avoid giving any anti-EU, anti immigration party any voice in government.
I remember reading an article about the “true fins” a year ago where the columnist gave them absolutely no chance of growing their numbers labeling them as lunatics. Apparently times have changed.
That reminds me of an article that I read on preference cascades (Glenn Reynolds):
‘This illustrates, in a mild way, the reason why totalitarian regimes collapse so suddenly. (Click here for a more complex analysis of this and related issues). Such regimes have little legitimacy, but they spend a lot of effort making sure that citizens don’t realize the extent to which their fellow-citizens dislike the regime. If the secret police and the censors are doing their job, 99% of the populace can hate the regime and be ready to revolt against it – but no revolt will occur because no one realizes that everyone else feels the same way.
This works until something breaks the spell, and the discontented realize that their feelings are widely shared, at which point the collapse of the regime may seem very sudden to outside observers – or even to the citizens themselves. Claims after the fact that many people who seemed like loyal apparatchiks really loathed the regime are often self-serving, of course. But they’re also often true: Even if one loathes the regime, few people have the force of will to stage one-man revolutions, and when preferences are sufficiently falsified, each dissident may feel that he or she is the only one, or at least part of a minority too small to make any difference.”
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20030910002544/http:/www.techcentralstation.com/031302A.html
via AOSHQ
Granted, enforced Political Correctness is not totalitarian in the traditional sense but the establishment politicians and media do attempt to marginalize the concerns of its citizens. The “sudden” rise of European nationalist (populist) parties are the natural reaction to this situation.
Also LC, when these uprisings occur the oppressors often over-retaliate and wipe-out such resistances to set an example for others that might wish to do the same. These “examples” are an excellent deterrent, and often retard any such movements. We see the same intimidation methods with our own HRCs in Canada.
The key for the little pipples is the Right to Assemble Freely. The internet is a wonderful medium for people to associate; but, you do leave a nasty little trail to yourself that you won’t with live associations.
We see the same intimidation methods with our own HRCs in Canada.
True, and they are completely oblivious as to why this makes the situation worse.
The anti-immigration BS is BS, but it would be worth it to throw a spanner into the EU.
And will the Finns forgo and forget the Pee Cee poison that got them there in the first place?
Or is this just a reaction to the EU pocket picking?
All well and good that the same people who were enabling the Bruxels parasites get their balls back when it comes to protecting their wallets … but I’ll bet real money that the entire region is not going to actually stop sucking the Peecee cork….
Olehuva!
Hakkapaila Suomi pojkar! liberally translates as Let’s have at ‘er, sons of Finland!
A good development overall, two strong contributing elements, both founded on the same sentiment.
The first element is the giant sucking sound on hardworking peoples paycheques that goes to fund leisurly lifestyles of inhabitants of southern EU welfare states. Sort of like here with la belle provence.
The second is seeing endless numbers (poor people pool: 3 billion, Finns: 5 million) of takers show up in your cities thanks to the ‘refugee industrial complex’ army of professional leftard leeches, and their comfortable cosmopolitan lifestyles. Again funded by the same workers paycheques. In gratitude for the good care, the rape numbers skyrocket, and other crime is rising. The leftards do their utmost to hide the truth, but people eventually twig on to it (thank you internet!).
The undelying sentiment for both is no one wants to be played for a sucker ad infinitum.
Most of the productive parts of the EU are facing this same situation.
As we are here.