Bildt Comments: Something Rotten in the State of Sweden (4)

Bildt Comments: Something Rotten in the State of Sweden (4): “Legal cases were opened – with considerable publicity associated with them – against three prominent representatives of the party.

The first is against no lesser person than Prime Minister Göran Persson himself.

For the time after he is Prime Minister he is busy building a rather impressive manor house in the countryside south of Stockholm. It is obviously more feudal than proletarian in inspiration. That fact in itself has been the subject of lots of comments.

But it now turns out that the building works – done by a firm run by his brother – has not been respecting elementary parts of the legislation for the protection and safety of the workers. And infringements are so serious that he will now be prosecuted for the violations of the law.

Needless to say, these laws are a key part of what the Social Democrats consider their contribution to a good society.

In my opinion, the case says more about the complicated laws than it says about the Prime Minister, but that’s not necessarily the way the media sees it.”

(från Bildt Comments.)

Interesting. I found earlier the comment from Bildt about the Palestine issue (or rather the absurd EU policy towards the democratically selected Palestine government) and that lead me to this comment about mr Persson – our Prime Minister. To my surprise I do agree with mr Bildt on both these issues!

I am sorry to say that despite beeing a social democrat myself mr Bildt is right about how we with good intentions made our legislation to complicated. This is not just the case only with the regulation protecting the safety of workers, its the same with for example the legislation about serving alcohol and running restaurants.

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Bildt Comments: Something Rotten in the State of Sweden (4): “Legal cases were opened – with considerable publicity associated with them – against three prominent representatives of the party. The...