Comment: Who believes the Prime Minister’s fairy tales?

Once again Ulf Kristersson beats his chest about the excellence of the current government. Immigration is down, crime is being fought, Sweden is safer than ever, and we have beaten inflation, he claims. But you only have to look around society to see that Kristersson is telling fairy tales.

Published 11 September 2024
- By Editorial Staff
Kristersson's image of Sweden has very little to do with reality, says Jenny Piper.
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It feels like a paid advertisement for a mediocre company selling an uninteresting product without managing to reach the customer base when Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson takes possession of DN Debate and once again beats his chest about the excellence of the current government.

According to Kristersson, the country was shattered when the bourgeoisie took responsibility for a country in crisis with high interest rates and inflation, sky-high electricity and fuel prices, serious crime, social exclusion and roads and railways in such a bad condition that people had difficulty getting to work. According to the prime minister, it was a Sweden that had become both poorer and more dangerous.

But when the new government, together with its turncoat supporting party, took office, it was a different story as Kristersson painted a picture of success, claiming point by point that the new government had achieved its goals: Sweden had beaten inflation, we had changed our energy policy, climate policy was entering a new phase, it was becoming harder to be a criminal in Sweden, when Sweden became a member of NATO we became safer, and immigration was falling..

It is enough to look around in society to see that Kristersson is telling fairy tales – all the deep holes in the wallets of us ordinary people created by the recurring high spending that seems to have been put into the system, the welfare society that has been shot in the sack with important social functions that bleed profusely and where there is no money to invest when war in foreign countries is prioritized, a road network and a railway function that is under all criticism, a forced NATO membership that brings us closer to war where the decision-makers have also sold out the country to foreign powers with the help of the DCA agreement with the United States, a constant crawl for Brussels that sucks us and the other EU countries dry, climate hysteria built on lies that must not be questioned that dominate Swedish politics and cost us an arm and a leg and widespread crime where it is clear who holds the baton, to name a few examples.

Incomprehensibly, however, a large part of the Swedish people buy this and think we should feel happy that our politicians are treating themselves while effectively dismantling Sweden.

#vibetalar

Jenny Piper

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