2010 - Swedish General Election - General

Yes, general election time in Sweden this year... Even if you're not Swedish i'm going to break it down so that you can vote in the poll. And yes, i took information from wikipedia, sue me. [i]Parties in order of size[/i] [b] The Social Democrats [/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/81/Swedish_Social_Democratic_Party.png/200px-Swedish_Social_Democratic_Party.png[/img] Party Leader: Mona Sahlin Ideology: Democratic socialism Headquarters: Stockholm Founded: 23 April 1889 Information: The Swedish Social Democratic Party, is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889. (In 1917, a schism occurred when the communists and other Revolutionary Left factions split from the Social Democrats to form what is now the Left Party). The symbol of the party is traditionally a red rose, which is believed to have been Fredrik Ström's idea My general opinion: Bunch of overrated cunts, trying to win this election by giving money to old people. [b]Moderate Party[/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/250px-Nya_moderaterna.png/150px-250px-Nya_moderaterna.png[/img] Leader: Fredrik Reinfeldt (current Prime Minister) Ideology: Liberal conservatism Headquarters: Stockholm Founded: 17 October 1904 Information: The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. A moderate party is a person who is moderate in opinion or opposed to extreme views and actions. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament. The party has had two other names during its history: the National Organization of the Right (1938–1952) and the Rightist Party (1952–1969). My general opinion: Not to bad, has done a [i]moderate[/i](see what i did there) job of running the country since '06. [b]Centre Party[/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Centerpartiet.svg/160px-Centerpartiet.svg.png[/img] Leader: Maud Olofsson Ideology: Social liberalism Headquarters: Stockholm (what else) Founded: 1913 Information: The Centre Party is a centrist political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party". The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social liberal focusing on agricultural, environmental, and rural questions. Longterm key issues have been opposition to nuclear power and proposals to decentralize governmental authority. My general opinion: "Hurf durf nuclear power is bad" that's why i dislike them. [b]The Liberal People's Party[/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/Liberal_People%27s_Party_%28Sweden%29_logo.png/155px-Liberal_People%27s_Party_%28Sweden%29_logo.png[/img] Leader: Jan Björklund Ideology: (if you haven't guessed it already) Liberalism Headquarters: Stockholm (why did i even add the Headquarters part) Founded: 23 February 1902 Information: The Liberal People's Party is a political party in Sweden. The party advocates social liberalism and is part of the governing centre-right bloc Alliance for Sweden, which achieved a majority in the general election of 17 September 2006. The party is currently the fourth largest party in the Riksdag. Its youth wing is the Liberal Youth of Sweden. In Sweden itself the party is almost universally referred to as simply the People's Party, with the word liberals only being added in formal or legal contexts. My general opinion: Not to much to say about them, except for [b]LIBERALS YAY OBAMA WOOHOO[/b] [b]The Christian Democratic Party[/b] [highlight]Considering about 95% of Facepunch is atheist i decided to not include them, mainly because i'm lazy. But partially because no one will vote for them[/highlight] [b]The Left Party[/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e5/V%C3%A4nsterpartiet.svg/161px-V%C3%A4nsterpartiet.svg.png[/img] Leader: Lars Ohly Ideology: (You guessed it) Socialism Headquarters: Stockholm (FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU) Founded: 1917 Information: The Left Party is a democratic socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party - Communists On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations. Moreover, the party opposes Swedish membership of the European Union and advocates increased public expenditure. My general opinion: Even tough they are socialists i've always liked them, when i was a little kid i wanted my parents to vote for them because communism was cool to me then. [b]The Green Party[/b] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Milj%C3%B6partiet.svg/150px-Milj%C3%B6partiet.svg.png[/img] Leaders:Peter Eriksson & Maria Wetterstrand (Yes, two of them, but they call them self spokespersons so yeah) Ideology: Yellow Politics, Nah just messing with ya: Green Politics. Headquarters: Stockholm ( :bravo: ) Founded: 6 December 1981 Information:The Green Party, and usually simply referred to in Sweden as The Environmental Party is a green political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1981 emerging out of the movement opposing nuclear power in a referendum held 1980. It won seats in the Parliament of Sweden for the first time in 1988, failed to pass the 4% cutoff in the following election in 1991, but returned again in 1994 and has held seats since, getting around 5% in every election. Currently, the party garners the most support among the young, female, urban and highly educated demographics. My general opinion: Green Parties can't go wrong in these days. That's it, now vote away.

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Vote for the Social Democrats, the Moderate party is just gay! :argh: EDIT: The Moderate Party came up with the law so we can't do FILESHARING! And torrents are cool. :frog: We want the Social Democrats back! :saddowns::arghfist:

Hmmm I'd say the Moderate Party... BTW OP, what ever happened to the Pirate Party? How many seats do they have so far? [img]http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/pirate-party.jpg[/img]

the Swedish Democrats

Where is Sverigedemokraterna?

Piratpartiet. [img]http://earplugsarethenewcondoms.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/piratpartiet.jpg[/img] [editline]10:07PM[/editline] This will be my first time voting by the way...

This will be my first time voting by the way...

The Pirate Party is just a bunch of nerds that have fake ideas and arguments. not a real politic party.

Your parties have nice logos

I think the pirate party only has seats in the EU parlament so far, don't think they have any in the Riksdag. (Swedish Parliament)

Swedish Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) is a bunch of stuckup old racists that have to hate something so they made a party to kick out all immigrants. Much like the BNP.

I voted for the Christian Party just because you said that no one will vote for them. :downs:

I think I'm gonna go SocDem simply because they're closest to my ideal ideology.

[QUOTE=LeonS;21207437]Swedish Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) is a bunch of stuckup old racists that have to hate something so they made a party to kick out all immigrants. Much like the BNP.[/QUOTE] -snip- Thought you we're talking about the Social Democrats, bad reading. Well yeah, the Swedish Democrats =/= BNP

Why not just add them to the poll? It's obvious that all the votes for "Other" are theirs anyway.

I voted for the Social Democratic Party because they're a social democratic party but apparently they're dicks or something? Whatever.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;21207380]Your parties have nice logos[/QUOTE] That's what I was thinking, but I'm stoned and loaded on clonazapam.

[QUOTE=smurfy;21208102]I voted for the Social Democratic Party because they're a social democratic party but apparently they're dicks or something? Whatever.[/QUOTE] The ideology is good but they're lacking initiative and they've sort of stagnated thanks to a row of unfortunate events.

Go Left!

Sverigedemokraterna, ut med blattarna! [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Racism" - Gurant))[/highlight]

WTF?! so many votes on Sossarna? Fucking Commies!

[QUOTE=Gmans Granny;21208900]WTF?! so many votes on Sossarna? Fucking Commies![/QUOTE] Tyst!

[B]The left party ain't commies.[/B]

[QUOTE=LeonS;21207437]Swedish Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) is a bunch of stuckup old racists that have to hate something so they made a party to kick out all immigrants. Much like the BNP.[/QUOTE] Then you haven't read shit about what they are today. i'm getting fed up with all the racist bullshit latley, even tho that i consider myself an oldschool social democrat. i stand to protect the Sverige demokraterna because i know what the fuck they are all about! In the 80's they were one of the most right wing parties there was. Now they've completely changed everything and said goodbye to all that bullshit and actually got real! Now i see them kind of like Socialdemokraterna goes Kristendemokraterna

Social democrats or vänster (left). If you vote for the moderate party you support the idea of taking from the poor and giving to the rich. It's just logic that he who has the most also should give the most. [editline]02:01PM[/editline] [QUOTE=4NGRY MUFF1N;21209032]i stand to protect the Sverige demokraterna because i know what the fuck they are all about![/QUOTE] ... To kick out all the immigrants?

[QUOTE=Jimmymi;21208836]Sverigedemokraterna, ut med blattarna![/QUOTE] Håll käften! stop saying such shit! [editline]02:03PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Pleather;21209040]Social democrats or vänster (left). If you vote for the moderate party you support the idea of taking from the poor and giving to the rich. It's just logic that he who has the most also should give the most. [editline]02:01PM[/editline] ... To kick out all the immigrants?[/QUOTE] They ain't for kicking out all the immigrants. read their website, they just want to stop the immigration so that we actually can put some efforts to help everyone that is here FIRST! instead of just pouring in more people! Right now it's like a glass, if no one drinks it and the water keeps pouring, it will spill over. [editline]02:04PM[/editline] [QUOTE=smurfy;21208102]I voted for the Social Democratic Party because they're a social democratic party but apparently they're dicks or something? Whatever.[/QUOTE] To bad that the social democrats here in sweden are not what they used to be :(

It's funny because I've yet to see a non-racist Sverigedemokrat. Sure I agree that Sweden should lower or pause their immigration for awhile but I do not condone the extreme racism that is going on in that party. "fuckn imiugrents raepin our women n childrun, takin our jobsss" - Typical racist.

[QUOTE=LeonS;21209252]It's funny because I've yet to see a non-racist Sverigedemokrat. Sure I agree that Sweden should lower or pause their immigration for awhile but I do not condone the extreme racism that is going on in that party. "fuckn imiugrents raepin our women n childrun, takin our jobsss" - Typical racist.[/QUOTE] Well i have to agree there are still some assholes that are there, but them that ive seen has been taken care off. But this is not only SD's problem, every party has stupids dicks like these for shure. And extreme racism? Haven't yet experienced or seen it from them, i know that they are very cultural and they want to keep the swedish culture instead of forgetting and replacing with some other shit. And that they want to limit immigration so that we can fix the problems here first, But i seem to like them because that they know what i want, i want shaper and a harder laws, i want everyone to be equal, not that the swedes got more laws to follow than the immigrants. Example. when it comes to the so called "hat brott" hate crimes and stupid stuff like this, none on the hatecrimes works for the swede if he gets called a "fucking svenne" or "svenne hora", this law only works for "fucking kurd" or "jävla blatte". I also like them cuz the elderly care plan, my dad is pretty old now, he makes almost NO money on his pension. He does NOT want to move in to those shitty elderly care homes since the service sux. Since there are no tax monies to hire more people or to give them more freedom/help/service. They want to free up more money for the elderly care, = more jobs, more happy old people, more people working. More tax monies. Same with the army, alot of job opportunity's there. Also media is usually one way, they allways show the bad things of a party like thiers. They dont show the lefties crashing meetings and smashing windows and cars and such since they dont share the same ideology. Wich is a shame in Swedish Democracy today.

Crap, I turn 17 this year. I miss voting and I have to wait until next time.. and by then, The Social Democrats *cough*communists* will have won again. Blargh.