What are the block options in 2022?

What are the block options in 2022? Maybe there will be clearer election campaigns, the closer we get to the election. But what are the electoral issues among the red-greens and the right if you look at the politics of recent years? Lina Stenberg for Dagens Arena has tried to explain this by reading the parliamentary motions. I have made my own additions, especially about the politics of the red-greens.

Welfare issues have fallen into the background. Click on this link or the picture next to it to make the trade union Kommunal's excellent election compass on where the parties stand on the hidden welfare issues.

When I read on, I notice that the choice is between responsible welfare from the red-green versus right-wing alternatives with tougher conditions for the poor and cream pies for the rich.

The red-green's questions

Lina doesn't mention much about what the red-greens want, but if you look at the politics of recent years, you can see certain issues.

Welfare must be strengthened in vulnerable areas, but at the same time become more focused on returning users to work.

If it is possible, independent schools and perhaps something in healthcare should be regulated.

They have tried to remedy or shown a willingness to reflect on shortcomings in the AF grading system, such as not having the worst test lower the entire grade or that perhaps the grade of failing should be removed in any case in junior high. S also particularly wants to reduce happiness grades in independent schools and reduce the mess the schools.

What are the block options in 2022?

Reinforcement for the most vulnerable

The red-greens are ready to improve sickness benefits, sickness insurance, unemployment insurance, pensions and to mitigate the qualifying deduction. The Left Party wants to strengthen sickness insurance very much in various ways. Read about it here . There is also an investigation underway in the Riksdag about wage indexation of sickness compensation.

You can see the Social Democrats' policy at this link.

Green industrialization

All the red-greens want to invest in their own way in a transition to a green industrialization of Sweden. V is most ready to loosen the fiscal policy framework. The framework tries to counteract government deficits, which is why the framework makes us needlessly poor. V wants to lead by creating 700 extra billion in a green New Deal/climate budget.

Tougher measures against labor immigration

Unfortunately, ministers within S have talked about reducing the multi-child allowance, which could hit the already low birth rate in the country. V and MP want to have slightly higher refugee immigration than S but regulate labor immigration. MP is probably most positive about labor immigration but still wants to regulate it. S has expressed itself forcefully and advocated strong proposals against unregulated labor immigration. In any case, S wants to regulate labor immigration in particular but also have a more restrictive refugee policy.

The red-greens will again want subsidies to create housing that people want to live in.

Take power against the crimes

The red-greens want to take action against crime with preventive measures such as strong welfare, but especially S also wants tougher penalties and increased police efforts and powers.

Less climate shame

The left party under Nooshi Dagostar wants the individual to feel less personal shame, especially for the development of the climate. Instead, V proposes effective, structural climate initiatives as mentioned above. Nooshi has also forced through a reduced petrol tax.

V's election manifesto for 2022 can be found here.

What are the block options in 2022?

MP wants, among other things:

• Introduce a sufficiently ambitious climate law at EU level and legislate on a European, binding emissions budget
•  Invest in on-time trains throughout Sweden, more night trains to Europe, a European train union for easier train travel in Europe and new high-speed trains
• have more organic and vegetarian food
• For a while, MP instead forced ever-increasing petrol tax surcharges on us.
• more about MP's politik

The blue bloc's questions

What are the block options in 2022?

Less immigration

SD wants “zero immigration, re-immigration, deportations and with all responsibility on the shoulders of the one-time immigrant in fixing their own integration. No establishment jobs, no efforts to support newly arrived children with the language, no preventive efforts in the country's suburbs.” “SD wants the large-child allowance to be changed to a “large-child deduction” so as not to benefit large immigrant families.” (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/ )

A lot of hard work for the unemployed and sick from KD

KD wants to include ""home visits"" to address "benefit dependency". It is actually about long-term unemployment and long-term illness and how more and more people have become insured and are referred to income support as a last resort. ... The alliance's "job line" is now... a line that can also be used to further discredit immigrant groups or suburbs." (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/ )

KD's leader Ebba Busch-Thor stated in the spring of 2022 that the police should in some cases have increased right to shoot at demonstrators. How serious she was in her statement is up for debate.

KD wants some positive things , such as nationalizing healthcare and strengthening wage subsidy employment for the disabled. They also want to invest in new start jobs for the long-term unemployed. At the same time, KD also wants to reduce taxes for the rich. How then strengthened welfare for vulnerable groups will be financed becomes a mystery.

Ebba has recently said that KD should not take government power with the help of SD. How KD will then be able to contribute to a change of government becomes the question. Perhaps Ebba does not think that SD as a supporting party still means that a blue government does not take support from SD. One wonders if SD with all its votes accepts to give power to the blues without gaining influence?

What are the block options in 2022?

Increase the gaps - the Moderates

The Moderates want to "make life easier for the country's rich. Raise the ceiling in RUT, expand services so that more are included, introduce private health insurance and have more private profit-making companies in welfare. .. And what about the others? Just like with KD, there is a lazy rhetoric that is based on making it as difficult as possible for low-income earners to do anything other than work. That is why they want to introduce a benefit ceiling." (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/ ) The Moderates have a “proposal to change the penal code so that parents have greater responsibility for children who commit crimes.” (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/ ) “leading moderates want the income support not only to be reduced and only given in return for work, but to be distributed in the form of “food vouchers.” (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/ )

Ulf Kristersson, who leads the Moderate Party, has spoken positively about SD's immigration policy this year.

M wants to introduce a minimum wage requirement for labor immigrants of 27 per month. The question is whether this is enough to save security against unhealthy competition in Swedish workplaces.

The Moderates focus, among other things, on reduced contributions and reduced taxes on their website . This tends to worsen working conditions and wage growth . They also want to invest in nuclear power and harsher punishments. At the same time, they want reduced taxes to lead to better welfare and cancer care. Wonder how the equation works?

The Moderates have come up with 52 proposals to reduce crime. One idea that many can probably agree with is that more sports can calm anxious students. Two more controversial ideas are that police dogs should be able to search schools when students are there and that the secrecy between social services and the police should be partially dismantled, which would require a constitutional amendment. Read more here.

Starve out the alienation

"from the Center Party in the middle to the Sweden Democrats far out on the right wing want health insurance and unemployment benefits to be kept low." (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/ )

Tougher rules for and reduced sick pay, lower unemployment insurance and cut contributions are lowering wage growth. Secret party documents from the Alliance era show that citizens must know and believe that this is right.

The women take care of the children and the men are dismissed

“A childcare allowance would be introduced so that mothers could stay at home for many years and the folded father's months would be removed. The Swedish labor market would become even more insecure, more flexible, at the expense of the employee. The probationary period would increase from six to twelve months, safety representatives would probably be replaced by “independent representatives” and the role of the union would be significantly reduced in individual workplaces, but also in society.” (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/ )

 

Increased rents for laid-off workers

When the blue budgets came through, they removed subsidies for the construction of cheap rental properties.

The center and the Liberals forced the red-greens to relax labor rights and work for market rents in the last mandate period. They greatly reduced the tax base for the country by removing the defense tax. The Center wanted to loosen beach protection so that access to beaches would become more of a monopoly for the wealthy.

The center

The Center finally has an election manifesto , but when they summarize themselves on their website, they focus, among other things, on more jobs being created, but not in the public sector but by the private sector . C does not want to raise taxes. This means that they support austerity policies that create unemployment, stress and increasing gaps according to research . C is also in favor of private alternatives in healthcare and schools. They want to invest in the climate, in ensuring that everyone has a certain amount of green space near their home, and are open to the idea of ​​green technology. They also want gender equality and large-scale immigration. At the same time, C has often been in favor of cuts in unemployment insurance and has been strongly in favor of reduced taxes, which is contrary to gender equality and successful integration.

 

The Liberals

The Liberals' policy is unclear. Read it here . They want to strengthen entrepreneurship at the expense of the public sector and taxes. This leads to the same problem as for C and other bourgeois parties with how to increase jobs. At the same time, they want to raise teacher salaries, have more state schools but without removing independent schools, and invest more in police officers. The Liberals want more start-up jobs even though their effectiveness is questioned. The Liberals want to reintroduce sick pay insurance (they choose the word "a longer time limit") and a waiting day after 15 days of illness. The Liberals say no to

• deduction for A cash register fee 810
• reduced number of qualifying days in the unemployment fund
• expanded extra services
• expanded labor market education increase in the Arbetsförmedlingen's administrative grant

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Many blue municipalities oppose green energy such as wind power despite electricity shortages. The right is strongly in favor of nuclear power despite the terrible risks of explosions/accidents and the fact that it has not been resolved how the nuclear waste should be stored for thousands of years.