Swedish EU-minister calls British EU-referendum "sad and vulgar"

After David Camerons speech yesterday about a possible EU-referendum the Swedish Minister for European Union Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson blew a fuse. In and interview with Svenska Dagbladet she said that the debate in Britain about EU was “sad and vulgar”.

One might think that a minister of democratic country should respect the democratic workings in another, but Birgitta Ohlsson has never been interested in democracy other than as a means to create a federalist EU. During the late 90’s she declared that her political agenda was to promote immigration, federalism and lesbianism (“Flyktingar, Federalism, Flator”). She has not negated on that wow so far.

Birgitta Ohlsson is a through and through apparatchik who has made her career in the weirdo liberal Folkpartiet (People’s Party). She has made it something of her trademark to be a political she-panzer and holier-than-thou liberal. In that context her statement yesterday is just the latest in a long line where she expresses fury and contempt for anyone who disagrees with her progressive pet projects. 

In Swedish politics that is a deploringly common attitude among establishment politicians. They tend to view the public as nuisance that must be briefly endured during general elections every fourth year and then they go back to doing what they want regardless of promises made during the election campaign. That is hardly unique trait for Swedish career politicians, although it is probably more sanctimoniously upheld here due to the symbiotic relationship between mainstream media and the political establishment.

The career politicians have become their own privileged social class who live more and more separate lives from the vast majority of Swedes. This and the disastrous policies regarding mass immigration, EU, law and order, a dismantled military defence etc grates with an increasing share of the electorate which in turn explains much of the successes for the Sweden Democrats (currently at 10 to 14 percent in the opinion polls).

Even if Birgitta Ohlssons outburst fits in with her political profile and the unsound political culture in Sweden of bullying dissidents and opponents, it is still a disgrace that a senior government minister describes the fundamental workings of democracy in another as “sad” and “vulgar”. It is also another warning example of the mentality of the federalists and their masters in Brussels. That in itself is a reason for new referendums about EU-membership in all of the member states.

Most Humbly,

K