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Lord King said it "beggared belief" that the world's sixth-biggest economy should be talking of stockpiling food and medicines and that "a government that cannot take action to prevent some of these catastrophic outcomes illustrates a whole lack of preparation. It doesn't tell us anything about whether the policy of staying in the EU is good or bad, it tells us everything about the incompetence of the preparation for it."
originally posted by: 83Liberty
Lord Mervyn King bang on the money again, he really should come back and replace that dreadful Mark Carney!
He shouldn't have been appointed in the first place. Why do we need foreigners to run how show, the national football team, benefits system, the EU to define our laws and set our rules etc etc. All a joke!!
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: 83Liberty
Lord Mervyn King bang on the money again, he really should come back and replace that dreadful Mark Carney!
Totally agree and would like to know WHY we have a Canadian as the Governor
of the Bank of England? Especially when the UK is negotiating to leave the EU.
With his negative attitude I'm not even sure if he agrees with the people's choice
of Brexit.
With his salary and perks I'm not surprised he's agreeing to extend his term at
the B of E ..... However. at this stage of Brexit we need a committed leaver
like Mervyn King at the helmn.
However, there is a similar sense of frustration back at the Sweden Democrats’ hut. ‘People tear up our leaflets and tell us to **** off,’ says retired accountant Dan Strom, 69, a member of the party for three years. ‘I get used to it. But what really upsets people these days is all the crime.’
Crime and immigration are dominating an election which has become so un-Swedish that many people talk openly about a national identity crisis.
Gangland shootings are so commonplace they barely make the news. A new fad for synchronised car-burnings has been making the headlines instead.
All of it is blamed — however unfairly — on immigrants in a country where 20 per cent of the population were born elsewhere. Now comes fresh data (unearthed last month by state TV) that rape is on the increase, that nearly 60 per cent of all convicted rapists since 2015 have been foreign-born and that 40 per cent had been in Sweden for less than a year.
It helps explain why the Sweden Democrats have gone so swiftly from the fringes to the political mainstream. Just three years ago, they were social outcasts. Now, they could be the largest single party when Sweden goes to the polls on Sunday while the centre-left Social Democrats, who lead the current coalition government, are on track for their worst result since before ABBA were born.
At the last election, they doubled their vote and won 49 of the 349 seats in parliament. In tomorrow’s election, they are expected to win 20 to 25 per cent and could well hold the balance of power in a fractious parliament where no one party will have control.
For they are following the same pattern which we have seen across Europe recently as anti-immigration parties wreak political havoc in Holland, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Poland and elsewhere.
Now it is happening in ultra-liberal Sweden, too, which has accepted more migrants per head of population than any EU nation — 250,000 since 2015.
We need to take away the pull factors that bring people here. Why is it cheaper for asylum-seekers to get dental care than for the elderly?’
Many dispute these statistics, along with so many other incendiary claims by the Sweden Democrats, but it is a narrative that has taken root.
What makes this election stranger still is that the economy is in rude health. Unemployment is at a historic low. The ruling Social Democrats should be way out in front. Instead, they face their worst result since World War 2.
Back in Rinkeby, I ask the local MP why Sweden is so divided. Amir Adan, 33, is half-Somali, half-Swedish and belongs to the Moderates, Sweden’s Tories.
‘Four years ago, we didn’t talk about immigration at all while the only party that did was the Sweden Democrats,’ he says. ‘We should all have talked about it more.’
You may be right! But it was the tandem nature of the shot that summed it up for me.
originally posted by: eletheia
a reply to: RP2SticksOfDynamite
To be fair ...... Boris has more on his mind to hold his head in his hands than
Brexit!!