Just before election night, Jimmie Åkesson began to establish the dagger thrust theory about "Muslim votes". In the event that the Tidö parties lost the election, the explanation was that immigrant vote cattle stole it from the Swedes.
It did not take many days after the election loss before SvD's lead writer Peter Wennblad wrote the text "The scandal in Borlänge is just the beginning" (25/9). It is cleverly insidious already in the title.
The text does not touch a single word on the Swedish-Somali leftist from Dalarna who, seemingly out of nowhere, crossed into the Riksdag. Instead, it is about the Järva area in Stockholm. But the mix-up is effective. Somalis as Somalis.
With 16 years of political commitment to ABF, the Renters' Association, PRO and as a co-founder of the organization Förorten mot völdr, everyone knows who he is
The leader's designated leftist, Ilyas Hassan, is the exact opposite of the candidate in Borlänge. With 16 years of political involvement for ABF, the Tenants' Association, PRO and as a co-founder of the organization Förorten mot vål, everyone knows who he is.
Classic movement political commitment, by SvD's independent moderate leadership side waved away with a vague accusation of clan votes.
So what had Wennblad actually found?
Value-laden statements such as "shocking", "disaster" and "like the Middle East" immediately set the tone of the text. An elderly election official describes the situation as "the worst I have seen since I was an election observer in Uganda, and a candidate bribed voters with rice and seeds".
Sweden has, last time I checked, the bronze podium in the democracy index. Uganda ranks 98. Probably not just because of pre-crossed ballots and some pushy poll workers.
Here, a couple of follow-up questions would have been appropriate. Instead, the Christian Democrats' party secretary Liza Morin took the Uganda track. "Notes that the leadership of the Left Party dismisses the editorial writer's text as 'insinuating' and 'racist'," she writes on Instagram.
And who am I to wave this off as racism? But the myth about immigrants' potato farms in the parquet floor actually rang true. It is hoping for a grand comeback now that heavy party representatives believe that V is buying clan votes to seed the country's suburbs.
One hundred Eritrean women and two priests allegedly stormed the polling station to clan vote for - if Wennblad's revelation is to be believed - a Somali leftist. Why? Nobody knows.
The editorial in SvD does not even mention the Social Democrats. Because here a point would be banked
When Aftonbladet later interviewed the witness, a 68-year-old polling station manager, the women and priests had voted for the soss instead. The editorial in SvD does not even mention the Social Democrats. Because here a point would be banked.
No one seems to be able to explain how this variant of the "Hassan" bus call "Ten thousand German gays" became national news without a single one of the hundred women having to speak out.
The political moves have been combined with mass and police reports of election fraud. The Stockholm moderates' Christofer Fjellner claims that the sossas are trying to sweep everything under the rug. A number of rapidly growing campaign sites with unclear senders require new elections. Wennblad was awarded a scholarship from the Fritt Näringsliv foundation for his efforts.
Most give concrete reasons for how they voted. Worry about racism, the rents, the jobs, the welfare. For that, they are punished with a declaration of incompetence
By and large, all news reporters give a more nuanced picture of Järva. Social pressures within groups and congregations seem to have occurred. A little depending on the group, it seems to be about S or V. But most give concrete reasons for how they voted. Worry about racism, the rents, the jobs, the welfare. For that, they are punished with a declaration of incompetence.
When SvD's newsroom spoke to the polling station manager who made reports about clan votes, it emerged that he made politically neutral statements on social media such as: "Vote for Tidö, otherwise..." The man says that he was not employed by the city of Stockholm at the time and has the right to his freedom of expression.
The reporter's counter-question about why, in that case, two days before the election, the person in charge of the polling station had written "Damn what you in the left-wing party, the communists/Islamists, are talking about the rich", gave the following answer: "Yes, maybe it was stupid."
For a month, that nonsense has only continued.
