
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-green are ready to improve the sick pay, the health insurance. the unemployment insurance fund, pensions and to mitigate the retirement allowance. The left party wants to strengthen health insurance very much in different ways. Read about this. There is also an investigation under way in the Riksdag about the wage index regulating the sickness benefit.
You can see the politics of the Social Democrats in this link.
Green industrialization
All the red-greens want to invest in their own way on 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 why the framework impoverishes us unnecessarily. V wants to lead with this to create 700 extra billion in a green New Deal/climate budget.
Tougher measures against labor immigration
Unfortunately, ministers within S have talked about reducing the multiple-child allowance, which could hit the already low birth rate in the country. V and MP want slightly higher refugee immigration than S, but regulate labor immigration. MPs are probably most positive about labor immigration but still want to regulate it. S has expressed himself forcefully and worked for strong proposals against unregulated labor immigration. In any case, S wants to regulate labor immigration in particular, but also to 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.
You will find V's election manifesto 2022 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-migration, deportations and with all responsibility on the once-immigrant's shoulders 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 multi-child allowance to be converted into a 'multi-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 arrange "home visits" to access "subsidy dependency". Actually, it is about long-term unemployment and long-term illness and how more and more people have become insured and are referred to welfare 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 such as nationalizing healthcare and strengthening wage subsidy employment for the disabled. They also want to invest in start-up jobs for the long-term unemployed. At the same time, KD wants reduce taxes also for the rich. How strengthened welfare for vulnerable groups is to be financed then 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 the services so that more are included, introduce private healthcare insurance and have more private profit-making companies in welfare. .. And the others then? Just as with KD, there is a lazy-mask rhetoric that consists of making it as difficult as possible for low-income earners to do anything other than work. That's why they want to introduce a contribution cap." (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/) The moderates have a "proposal to change the criminal 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 welfare support not only to be reduced and only given in return for performance in the form of work, but distributed in the form of "food cheques". (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/)
Ulf Kristersson, who leads the Moderates, has spoke 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 on i.a. especially 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 tougher punishments. At the same time, they want reduced taxes to lead to better welfare and cancer care. Wondering how the equation comes together?
The moderates have come up with 52 proposals to reduce crime. One thought that probably many can agree with is that more sports can calm down 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 wants to health insurance and the unemployment benefit should be kept low.” (Stenberg, Lena https://www.dagensarena.se/essa/en-valvinst-hogern-gor-sverige-kallare-och-dummare/)
Tougher rules for and reduced sickness benefits, lower unemployment benefits and reduced benefits reduce wage growth. Secret party documents from the time of the Alliance shows 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 can stay at home for many years and the weighted father 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, the 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 one election manifesto than but when they summarize themselves on their website, they focus, among other things, on that more jobs should be created, but not in the public sector by the private sector. C does not want to raise the tax. This means they support the austerity policies that create unemployment, stress and widening divides according to research. C is also for those the private selection options in healthcare and school. They want to bet on the climate, on everyone having a certain amount of green areas near their home and are opening up to the idea of green technology. They also want equality and large immigration. At the same time, C has often been in favor of reductions in social security and has been strongly in favor of reduced taxes, which goes against equality and successful integration.
The Liberals
The Liberals' policy is unclear. read it here. They want to strengthen business at the expense of the public and taxes. It leads to the same problems as for C and other bourgeois parties with how to increase job opportunities. At the same time, they want to raise teacher salaries, have a more state-run school but without removing the independent schools, invest more in police officers. The Liberals want more start-up jobs, even though their effectiveness is questioned. The Liberals want re-introduced insurance for the sick (they choose the word "a distant time limit") and a cooling-off day after 15 days of illness. The Liberals say no
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- 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.
All well and good - but neither will a social democratic government pursue social democratic policies unless there is organized support for it in society, and people willing to sacrifice something to see it implemented.
A government can only create compromises between the forces that exist in society. If it is only the rentiers who drive, even a social democratic government will pursue a rentier-friendly policy.
There are any number of welfare-active grass roots, even if the media silences them.