Rumor - Some Europeans (Swiss) strap on their porta-spine and punish pro-immigrant forces.

[maxparrish]

In a historic election the SVP has had the best performance of ANY political party IN A CENTURY on its platform of restricted immigration.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ins-Swiss-election-in-slide-to-the-Right.html

Anti-immigration party wins Swiss election in 'slide to the Right'

The anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday's national parliamentary election, keeping pressure on Bern to introduce quotas on people moving from the European Union.

Success for the SVP, coupled with gains made by the pro-business Liberal Party (FDP), led political commentators to talk of a "Rechtsrutsch" - a "slide to the right" - in Swiss politics.

Immigration was the central topic for voters amid a rush of asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe.
"The vote was clear," SVP leader Toni Brunner told Swiss television. "The people are worried about mass migration to Europe."
Sunday's result cemented the SVP's position as the dominant force in Swiss politics.

It was the best performance by a party in at least a century.

This translated to an extra 11 seats in Switzerland's lower house of parliament to bring its tally to 65, the highest for any party since the chamber's membership rose to 200 in 1963.

The election gains for the SVP, which was already Switzerland's biggest single party, come 20 months after the Swiss in a referendum backed limits on foreigners living in the Alpine nation. The SVP had strongly supported the restrictions.

Good for the Swiss. In 30 years they can send archaeologists to dig through the ruins of Sweden and debate the "true cause" of their fall.

 

[laughing dog]

Thanks for pointing out the resurgence of the latent mountain nazi gene.

 

[Trausti]

Thanks for pointing out the resurgence of the latent mountain nazi gene.

Is this a Godwin record?

 

[Jarhyn]

Thanks for pointing out the resurgence of the latent mountain nazi gene.

Is this a Godwin record?

I don't think it is a Godwin to point out the connection between Nazis and Nationalists. Because Nazi is a shortening of the German for "national socialist", particularly the (nati) part, especially when the actual terribleness of Nazis was entirely bound up in their nationalistic (read: tribalistic) obsessions, and their fear of 'other'.

So yes. It really is a rise of the mountain 'nati's. Five or take a little bit of Z.