In order for there to have been this speech by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt there must be some serious rumblings of unwelcome from the average Swedish citizen. It doesn’t take a genius to see that there is only so much money to go around when a country invites hordes of mostly needy Muslim third-worlders to come-on-in as Sweden has been doing.
See our complete (and now lengthy archive) on Sweden, here.
Looks like in Sweden, as in America, this election season immigration is the hot button issue every pol must address.
From The Local:
Swedish prime minister and Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt called on Swedes to show tolerance to refugees seeking safety in the country in his summer speech on Saturday.
“Show tolerance,” he urged referring to the increasing number of people fleeing wars in Syria and Iraq.
“I know that this will cause friction. I therefore call on the Swedish people to show patience and open their hearts.”
Reinfeldt cited the cost of taking care of asylum-seekers as one of the reasons why voters can expect no more spending pledges from the government before the September 14th election. [No more “pledges,” but what about the reality once the election is over?—ed]
“We will promise no more in this election campaign,” he said.
The Prime Minister, who was speaking in combination with a Moderate Party election meeting on Norrmalmstorg in central Stockholm, observed that as many people were arriving now as during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
He furthermore expressed ‘astonishment’ at the spending pledges made by the opposition parties and questioned where the money was going to come from to finance them.
See wikipedia on the “moderate” Reinfeldt here: “He has revealed that his personal distaste for the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party is based on his partly African ancestry.” (Gee, kind of like Obama!)