Swiss party heading for victory wants to ban immigration

[Electronic God-Man]

They lost.

[Albion]

They lost.

Awwww.

[Joe McCarthy]

I hope the Swiss have planned for retaliatory NATO airstrikes and the inevitable "popular uprising" of the oppressed peoples to overthrow their tyrannical dictators, should these anti-immigration plans come to fruition. up

If NATO were interested in bombing countries for limiting immigration, they would have done so in Denmark. In fact, Danish leftists have even called for Obama to pressure the Danish government to stop 'mistreating' immigrants.

[Joe McCarthy]

They lost.

The immigration ban can still go on the ballot. Switzerland's direct democracy is more important than its weak government.

[Unurautare]

They have problems with certain elements of people from the Balkans and Romania and eastern Europe.....and also quite suprisingly Portugal.

I have relatives in Geneva and Bern and for some reason they hate the Portugese.

They have problems with EVERYBODY,including highly educated Germans that immigrate there and get jobs.

Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

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[Curtis24]

To those who understand these things, will this result in actual anti-immigration efforts?

[Joe McCarthy]

To those who understand these things, will this result in actual anti-immigration efforts?

I haven't been following Swiss politics closely of late, but they passed the minaret ban, so an immigration ban on a direct democracy vote is possible. The SVP apparently has the signatures to get it on the ballot or will have.