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Swedish government investigator calls for Kristersson’s resignation over scandal

Published 28 March 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Several observers point out that the appointment of Landerholm has damaged the confidence of Ulf Kristersson and his party.
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The Swedish government’s investigator, former Court of Appeal judge Krister Thelin, believes Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson must step down following the scandal involving National Security Adviser Henrik Landerholm.

Instead, he believes that Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) should take over and lead the party and the country.

Thelin, a member of the Moderate Party, is currently investigating the possibility of a national ban on begging on behalf of the government and has previously contributed to several inquiries. However, he argues that the indictment against Kristersson’s childhood friend and handpicked security adviser Henrik Landerholm is so serious that the prime minister can no longer remain in office.

Landerholm, responsible for coordinating and analyzing national security, is facing charges of negligence with classified information after leaving security-classified documents in an unlocked cabinet in a training room.

It has also emerged that he recruited staff without conducting security checks, left his mobile phone at a foreign embassy, and sent sensitive notes with a taxi driver after losing his notebook at Sweden’s national radio headquarters.

“Benefits neither the party nor Kristersson”

Krister Thelin believes that the poor judgment was so serious and the scandal of such magnitude that it does not matter if Landerholm is eventually acquitted in court Ulf Kristersson should still take responsibility and step aside.

– Regardless of how Landerholm was appointed, the fact that he is now under indictment is something that does not just disappear, he says to the Bonnier newspaper Expressen.

He points out that the Landerholm affair will negatively affect Swedes’ confidence in the Moderate Party for a long time to come and risks damaging the party during the election campaign next year.

Walking around with this albatross around your neck, all the time from now until the election, it benefits neither the party nor Kristersson, he continues, suggesting instead that Gunnar Strömmer “in an orderly manner” take over.

Accuses Moderate leadership of hypocrisy

Thelin notes that the Moderates in particular have long criticized previous governments for engaging in nepotism or appointing incompetent people and that they therefore have a responsibility not to act as indiscriminately themselves.

– The Moderates should be especially cautious in appointment matters, as they have, rightfully, criticized previous governments for failing to prioritize meritocracy and instead engaging in cronyism. Now they are doing the same thing. It’s not a good look.

However, the M leader seems to have no plans to comply with the resignation demand, with deputy party secretary Martin Borg commenting that “what individuals think is up to them“.

It was Ulf Kristersson who secured a majority to restore order in Sweden and is now carrying out a paradigm shift in Swedish politics“, it further claims.

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New figures: Unemployment hits record levels in Sweden as prices keep rising

Published 7 August 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Price inflation remains at high levels while food prices and unemployment increase.
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Unemployment in Sweden rose during the second quarter of 2025, while inflation continues to remain high. The economic uncertainty is also increasingly affecting households and businesses.

According to the Swedish Public Employment Service’s latest figures, 366,496 people were officially registered as unemployed in June 2025, compared to 347,994 people during the same period the previous year. This corresponds to an unemployment level of 6.9 percent, up from 6.6 percent in 2024.

The increase is visible in 15 of the country’s 21 counties, where Västerbotten in northern Sweden has been particularly hard hit following industrial closures. Västmanland in central Sweden also shows a clear increase, while Dalarna and the island of Gotland note some improvement.

Among young people (18–24 years), the situation is particularly serious. 41,939 were registered as unemployed in June, corresponding to 7.8 percent according to the Swedish Public Employment Service’s measure. This occurs while many are newly registering and competition for jobs is increasing.

Experts also point out that the real unemployment rate may be significantly higher than the official figures. Many unemployed people are not registered with the Swedish Public Employment Service and are therefore not included in the statistics.

According to Statistics Sweden’s (SCB) labor force surveys, there are also approximately 200,000 people who are outside the labor force but still want to work – for example, part-time unemployed, long-term unemployed, or people in education who are actively job searching.

The Swedish people continue to struggle with deteriorating household finances while politicians prioritize billions in support to countries at war as well as larger military expenditures.

Inflation continues at high levels

According to the National Institute of Economic Research, price inflation remains at an elevated level in Sweden. Statistics Sweden (SCB) reports that the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.8 percent in July compared to the previous month, corresponding to an annual rate of approximately 4.1 percent.

The high annual rate is described as being driven by continued energy price increases, rising transport costs, and disruptions in global supply chains.

The Swedish central bank’s (Riksbank) preferred inflation measure, CPIF (CPI with fixed interest rate), was preliminarily measured at approximately 3.0 percent on an annual basis in July, compared to 2.9 percent in June. The difference between CPI and CPIF is mainly because CPI includes interest costs that have had a major impact, while CPIF excludes these and therefore provides a clearer picture of underlying price developments.

This means that even though price increases based on monthly data are relatively moderate right now, the more stable CPIF inflation continues to be above the Riksbank’s target of 2 percent. For many households, this means continued increased living costs and reduced purchasing power, especially in combination with rising interest rates and a weakened Swedish krona.

Mass migration was meant to save Sandviken – now it’s compared to Sweden’s worst suburbs

Population replacement in the West

Published 7 August 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Areas that were meant to become symbols of integration – now marked by surveillance, anxiety and exodus.
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Politicians and media promised that mass immigration would make Sandviken, Sweden into an economic success story. Ten years later, reality is much bleaker: half the city is now classified as an exclusion area and compared to notorious problem suburbs like Rinkeby and Tjärna Ängar.

In 2014, left-liberal media, led by the Bonnier-owned Dagens Nyheter (Sweden’s largest daily newspaper), trumpeted that mass migration to Sandviken was a gigantic profitable venture that would make the entire municipality economically prosperous.

“Earns over half a billion from immigration”, read DN’s headline, claiming that each immigrant resident would generate €13,000 annually in revenue for the municipality.

The claims were based on figures in a report by auditing firm PwC and had been commissioned by the municipality itself.

Mass immigration was supposed to be a success for Sandviken. Photo: facsimile/DN

However, the optimistic calculations were based on fantasies and wishful thinking, and within just a couple of years it became clear that the municipality’s financial situation had instead become severely strained – with a budget deficit of €6 million.

— It was a fantasy scenario that was painted. The report was flawed from the beginning. How could anyone stand behind it? wondered Moderate Party opposition councilor Jonny Bratberg in 2019.

“White flight”

And since then, the situation has hardly improved. No billion-euro profits from mass immigration have materialized. Instead, the Swedish government now classifies half of Sandviken as an “exclusion area” – on the same list as notorious immigrant-dense and crime-ridden suburbs like Rinkeby (in Stockholm), Tjärna Ängar in Borlänge, and Gottsunda in Uppsala.

Surveillance cameras now sit on almost every street corner, and Emma Holmqvist, a segregation researcher at Uppsala University, notes that a large portion of the ethnically Swedish population has fled from immigrant-dense parts of Sandviken – and that other Swedes avoid moving there.

— ‘White flight, white avoidance’ is what we call it, says Emma Holmqvist.

— In long-term studies we can see that those with high incomes are partly driving spirals of segregation. They have housing choices that low-income earners lack. They can move away from an area with rental apartments and negative development, simply by purchasing housing.

Swedes don’t want to live with immigrants

She emphasizes, however, that people – regardless of group affiliation – tend to want to live near people who are like themselves, and that this applies to both families with children and high-income earners.

— But one thing that stands out is that many with immigrant backgrounds tend to want to live with more Swedes – the opposite rarely applies to native-born Swedes, she notes.

That Swedes in Sandviken don’t want to live together with immigrants is pointed out as a major and acute problem that must be solved by politicians – for example, by building more rental apartments in villa neighborhoods.

Children as integration tools

The municipality’s politicians have previously attracted attention in connection with a heavily criticized integration initiative where they made the decision to forcibly relocate mainly Swedish children from villa areas to an immigrant-dense, low-performing school in an exclusion area.

The decision enraged many parents and was described as a kind of “social experiment,” where children were involuntarily made into tools in politicians’ integration policy project.

— This is some form of Social Democratic wet dream, where you mix up the students in yet another integration project. You take an A-school and exchange half the students with a D-school, and then you get two C-schools instead – so everyone becomes satisfied and happy. It’s completely insane, of course, commented Jonny Bratberg on the matter in Tidningen Näringslivet (a Swedish business publication).

Swedish minister praises Israel’s destruction of Gaza: “Doing the whole world a service”

The genocide in Gaza

Published 6 August 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Swedish politician Ebba Busch and her party's support for Israel continues to be virtually limitless - despite warnings of ethnic cleansing, genocide and war crimes.
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While increasing voices condemn the Israeli invasion of Gaza as an ongoing genocide and Prime Minister Netanyahu openly speaks of occupying the entire area, Swedish Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch chooses instead to praise Israel’s war.

— Israel is doing the whole world a service, she declares, pointing to Hamas as solely responsible for the suffering and destruction in the region.

The statement comes after the Swedish government announced it wants to freeze the EU’s trade agreement with Israel, in an attempt to increase pressure to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. But the decision has met with criticism, particularly from the Christian Democrats – a party that has long acted as one of Israel’s most loyal defenders in Swedish politics, support that seems unaffected by whatever war crimes or crimes against humanity Israel has been accused of.

Busch herself expresses some reservation about the government’s line, arguing that the message was presented in an unbalanced way:

— The focus became one-sided, she claims.

In a Facebook post, the Christian Democrat leader writes that the government’s position may be reconsidered:

“If Israel does more or if it turns out that there is no basis for Israel bearing a great responsibility for the emergency aid not getting through, there is no reason to maintain the government’s position”.

She adds that “it is unambiguous that Hamas bears the great responsibility for the war and the human suffering in Gaza”.

“Need to increase pressure on Hamas”

While Israel’s invasion and bombings have led to tens of thousands of killed women and children, extensive civilian devastation and harsh international condemnations, Busch chooses to fully defend the country’s actions.

— The root of the war we see between Israel and Hamas is precisely Hamas. It was Hamas that started this war with the terrible terrorist act almost two years ago. It is Hamas that chooses to continue holding hostages, it is Hamas that chooses not to sign peace agreements. And we need to increase pressure on Hamas to lay down their weapons, she says.

— Israel is doing the whole world a service in trying to neutralize Hamas and trying to dissolve Hamas.

When asked if she stands behind the government’s message about working to freeze the trade agreement, Busch answers:

— We have opened up for the far-reaching measure of putting higher economic pressure on Israel, if it is the case that Israel is not doing everything within reason’s limits to let humanitarian support through.

Won’t comment on occupation plans

Recently, the Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to occupy the entire Gaza Strip. Busch, however, does not want to reveal whether she supports these plans or not.

— I haven’t seen that and then I don’t want to comment on it.

The government’s message has also stirred emotions domestically. The very pro-Israeli Sweden Democrats’ party leader Jimmie Åkesson called the decision a “disaster” in a post on X. Ebba Busch, however, does not want to answer whether the Sweden Democrats can be given influence over foreign policy going forward:

— Now we have the agreement that we have now, she says.

British nationalist leader stopped at Arlanda – alleged to threaten Swedish values

The threat to freedom of speech

Published 5 August 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Collett was scheduled to speak at a summer party organized by the nationalist association Det Fria Sverige (Free Sweden) in Töreboda, a town in central Sweden.
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British nationalist Mark Collett, leader of the organization Patriotic Alternative, was detained by Swedish border police immediately upon arrival at Arlanda Airport near Stockholm on Friday – and subsequently deported.

He was an invited speaker at a summer festival organized by the nationalist association Det fria Sverige (Free Sweden) in Töreboda, central Sweden, but was stopped with the justification that he “poses a threat to public order, society’s structure and the values on which Sweden and Europe are built”.

According to Collett’s own account, he was held at the airport for over 25 hours, without access to luggage or passport, despite not being suspected of any crime.

“After being stranded for more than 25 hours at the airport, two police officers finally came and said it was time to leave. They escorted me to a gate and made sure I boarded a direct flight home”, he writes on Telegram.

He further notes that no EU country would dream of treating an illegal immigrant the way Swedish border police treated him – despite him entering the country completely legally.

The deportation is based on utlänningslagen (Chapter 8, sections 11-12), which gives authorities the right to deny entry to foreigners deemed to pose “a genuine, actual and sufficiently serious threat to a fundamental societal interest”. What this means in practice is very unclear and leaves extensive and arbitrary room for interpretation. Critics argue that the law is used to prevent regime critics and dissidents from entering the country, based on their opinions rather than actual criminality.

Ideologically driven border control

Collett has been a well-known figure in British nationalism for decades, with a clearly immigration-critical and ethno-nationalist agenda. However, it remains unclear how his views that non-European mass immigration is destructive and negative would constitute a threat to Swedish interests. According to critics, the case rather demonstrates ideologically driven border control, where political positions – not actions – determine who is allowed to enter.

There is no criminal investigation or inquiry against Collett, and no information suggests he was planning anything illegal. Yet his mere presence was deemed incompatible with Swedish values – an assessment that was apparently sufficient to detain him and carry out a deportation.

Instead of scrutinizing the border police’s legally questionable actions against regime critics, several Swedish establishment media outlets have seized the opportunity to attack Collett – who is described as, among other things, a dangerous “Nazi”, “white power leader” and “far-right extremist”.

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