Adding a language requirement to permanent residency and extending the citizenship residence requirement to eight years seems like a great way to ensure highly paid and highly educated professionals from abroad find somewhere else to live.
Adding a language requirement to permanent residency and extending the citizenship residence requirement to eight years seems like a great way to ensure highly paid and highly educated professionals from abroad find somewhere else to live.
So are they sanitized fascists like the rest of the Scandivanian far right?
I would say no. Just populists out of touch with reality and pandering to xenophobia.
Seems at least that they are comfortable standing next to them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finns_Party#Controversies
But at least I don’t see them been actual fascists who decided to wear masks, like Sverigedemokraterna and Dansk Folkeparti.
The Finns Party is “not racist, but #1 among racists.”
This is a good way to put it. Basic finns are the party that panders heavily to those who hate immigrants and minorities. Their politics do go beyond that however. For example bringing down the price of gas.
9 out of 10 racists recommend the Finns Party!
Our actual fascists are Sinimusta Liike. Here’s a campaign flyer of theirs from this spring:
Gross.