Regarding the outrage over Stockholm’s governor: Guess these public power holders never learn. Whataboutism is new Swedish for cold super theory. Now all indignant citizens have a gigantic job ahead of them, namely to scrutinize all other high public officials with the same zeal. We wish you all the best of luck and if you ever graduate in the distant future there is very little to recruit. Namely, everyone is closest to themselves. Even simple political decisions, such as who will be allowed to be an executive and run a compulsory school, are based on friendship. Corrupting friendship. I myself only employ friends, but I am not public either.
Rickard Nordström, Högsjö
How could Anna Kinberg Batra know that her friend had the best qualifications when no one else could apply? Is she psychic?
Gunilla Carlsson, Vendelsö
“Once upon a time, it was the Moderates who complained when those in power acquired privileges. Who will do it now?†asks DN’s political editor Amanda Sokolnicki. The county boards are part of the state apparatus. There are question marks. Other parties in the Riksdag that should jump frogs with anger over Batra’s handling are instead completely silent, and when she appoints a person who is not qualified, the union should jump with anger. Also, I get the same vibes as the submitter with the headline “Does the state attorney go against the law in the Kinberg Batra case?†.
Ulf Andersson, The shop
Who will roar from the front? asks Amanda Sokolnicki in her excellent editorial in DN on April 19 regarding Anna Kinberg Batra and her choice to hire friends in important positions. Not Gunnar Strömmer, not Elisabeth Svantesson and not PM Nilsson. And what do we readers do? We do well as we usually do. First we get upset and then we get upset – and then it’s over. Now it’s just for those responsible to wait for it to pass.
Margaretha Landsmer, Pushed
Thanks for an exceptionally good leader today! We “grassroots” who grew up with morals and values (read the “10 commandments”) are very concerned about who is ruling Sweden today! Everything from “left to right†. No one can be trusted!
â— Friendship corruption.
â— Lies.
◠Contribution fraud – by elected politicians (who often get away with it).
What does that say to us “ordinary†citizens…? If they can, so can we! What building blocks does Sweden rest on? It will crackle, greets an early 50-year-old who has been part of Sweden’s rise – and fall?
Yvonne S Wallin
In Friday’s DN, I read Amanda Sokolnicki’s editorial about the corruption investigations surrounding Anna Kinberg Batra. Then I read Michel Silverstorm’s thoughtful submission about the government’s failed climate policy. When I stop, I feel a deep gratitude that we (still) have a free press in our country. When Rural Affairs Minister Peter Kullgren (KD) allies himself with the authoritarian regime in Hungary to get help to oppose the EU’s environmental program, it is further proof of the government’s destructive environment policy. When Kullgren also turns his sympathies towards Hungary in particular, clouds of concern gather that free media is not a matter of course in the Tidöpartierna’s fantasy world. To Michel Silverstorm I answer: I feel just like you and we can make our voices heard in general elections!
Jan Olsson, Vitaby
To Michel Silverstorm: Well written! You may have to activate yourself. The only question is – in which forum/organization? When Greta Thunberg left the Riksdag building with her placard, I had an idea to take over with a new placard: “Old man strike for the climate’†. Then I got lazy. Not good. What to do?
Mats Grape, Sollentuna
Now the lantisar have moved into the governor’s house in Stockholm because as unsmart as AKB, no Stockholmer can be?
Søren Monvall, Uppland’s Väsby
That Anna Kinberg Batra’s appointments are a bit of a storm in a teacup, a bit of “find five faults†. It is sad that no one seems to give her advice and help in this situation. What is worrying, however, are reports from within about ruling technology and unpleasant treatment. How can one achieve good work under such conditions? With a manager who causes such a bad atmosphere. It would probably be better if she was given a new assignment so that the county board gets some peace of mind.
Camilla Brolin, Solna
Everyone writes about Anna Kinberg Batra, and rightly so. I still wonder what the two newly appointed managers at the county board think and think. Are they satisfied and happy to have gotten their nice jobs just because they know AKB? Do they think she has done them a favor by treating them this way? What do their neighbors and friends say and what do colleagues at work think (does AKB understand what she is putting her friends through)? Do they think they will remain in their posts thinking that they were still the best applicants?
Thorkel Borelius
The eternally forgotten truth is that revenge is the most infallible self-harm…
Peter Pettersson, Hell yeah
A worry deep inside me burns
Are some fighting for what they don’t know?
Is their war of words just for fun?
Are their tongues full of deceit?
And would they, if the words tried them
Would you like to be able to change your mind?
Berit Dreyfert, Adelsö
On 11/4, L wrote on his website that the party wants “the principle of publicity to apply in all independent schools. The reason is that we should be able to review and follow how our public funds are used.†Party leader Johan Pehrson also made this opinion public at a press conference the day before. On 18/4, Daniel Riazat (V) asked Education Minister Lotta Edholm (L) in the Riksdag how the party will vote when the issue of the principle of openness is dealt with on 24/4. She replied that L will not vote yes to the publicity principle for independent schools. Is L’s school policy credible?
Iwan Langermo
Thirty years of free schools have repeatedly raised questions about bullying, corruption, increased segregation and poor school results in the media. Making changes in a more positive direction does not seem feasible due to some form of built-in inertia. One cannot help but wonder, is this due to a widespread naivety or is it a completely shameless corruption of friendship here too? “Then you didn’t see the development we see today with large groups,†says Lotta Edholm†(DN 19/4). If there is an almost inexhaustible treasure chest to pour out of and the absence of clear rules about, for example, company forms and profit withdrawal – is it any wonder that the companies see a lucrative market? The principle of publicity would have applied from the beginning. Increase knowledge about corruption and bribery to prevent us from becoming a new Hungary or Turkey.
Dick Andersson, Vaxholm
God who has the children love
Look how bad it is now
Where in politics we turn
KD is in Ã…kesson’s hands
Happiness comes, happiness goes
Applies to the one that mammon receives
Roland Nilsson
The EU is short of money, according to Thursday’s report. Two savings proposals
1. Withdraw or reconsider the delegates’ pocket money, which is paid out to a little of each without control, at SEK 50,000 per month.
2. End the EU’s migration carousel every month between Strasbourg and Brussels.
There are probably other savings opportunities as well, but why not start with these.
Roffe Jansson
“The government’s mismanagement of nuclear power will cost us dearly,†writes DN in the main editorial on 18/4. It should read “mismanagement by several governments†. Through populist decisions, Barsebäck was closed and extensions of producing facilities have been stopped.
Hans Johansson, Heberg
It seems to me that there are two contradictions in Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand’s (M) text on DN Kultur about the goals of a Swedish cultural canon and the additional resources aimed at increasing the accessibility of the works. A canon for “education, community and inclusion” and which “helps us understand where we come from and what shaped Sweden” would need a variety of perspectives. Such as the works of Roma, Sami, Jewish, Tornedal, and Swedish-Finnish cultural workers as well as a selection of foreign works that have influenced us. But for reasons of space and, I guess, the Sweden Democrats’ ideas about the Swedish nation, what is sometimes called the “majority Swedish†perspective dominates the selection of works. Furthermore, the announced resource additions become contradictory next to other implemented and announced cuts and insufficient investments in schools, public services, public libraries, student unions, media support, the universities’ distance education and course offerings and on ¥ the cultural sector in other. But the Minister of Culture is free to work to ensure that part of the money for the root and square deductions is used to contribute to her laudable motto about education as a right for all.
Niclas Kuoppa, Stockholm
Today it is called “accident number 2†. When I was young people said “pooped†or “shit yourself†. How beautiful at the edge we have become!
Ulf Flood Sjöholm, First
Opinions about DN
An editorial with the headline “Mishandeln costs billions in lost tax revenue†(19/4) turns out to be about the railway on Malmbanan being so bad that LKAB cannot deliver everything the company produces. It’s very bad, but you still can’t call it abuse. If you want to be GöteborgsÂrolig, you can call LKAB’s lack of income a “mis-trade,†because there is a lot of trade that was missed. I don’t think it’s so funny that DN should be in its way of using the language. Does DN write for readers with twisted humor or for a broad public?
Ã…sa Kfouri, electrical installer, Hallstahammar
