...And not a bloody buggery day too soon! It was awfully silly to get rid of it in the first place.
Now. There is an explanation for it. If you remember the nineties, it is likely that you recall a strange zeitgeist of disarmament running through it, after the fall of the Soviet union. This ended up running away absolutely uncontrollably in parliament, along with migration. Since there was no enemy at the time, they reasoned, why keep an expensive standing army? It was re-orientated from a national defence force into a professional army trained for foreign service, such as in Afghanistan. Conscription, which since the early nineties was effectively voluntary, was abolished as part of it. Of course, now the dastardly Russians have ruined their plans by asserting themselves again, and they need to reverse twenty odd years of cutbacks, scrapping and reduction.
It is baby steps in the right direction, at least. There has been a few of those, recently. One can only hope. It is difficult to see how it will all turn out, but it is an admission, of a sort. It, along with the restricted migration policy, rather feels like an admission that the world that they envisaged failed to turn up, and that it is time to return to the one we are currently in.
Related to that, why, I am sure that all glorious, superior British teenagers are all thrilled and excited about a military career, and have no other prospects in mind but an officer's life, for the good of the realm, as opposed to the decadent degenerates of other lands... All a chav truly want is a uniform and a officer's commission, I am sure.In more sverige news, US journalist Tim Pool posted on his twitter about getting escorted out of Rinkeby after several men put on masks and started following his crew. Pool claims that a local police officer mentioned it was better if they left, and that groups were gathering and getting agitated after seeing his filming equipment (they were carrying sizeable filming equipment). He says he was escorted out of the district by police. While swedish police did say people got agitated when Pool started filming, with several young men pulling up their hoods and shouting at them, they have disputed Pool's claim of him being escorted out by police.
While Pool's claim is disputable, Rinkeby is a suburban area of Stockolm thats recently became a focus for riots, car burning and such things, seemingly over political comments in regards to Sweden's immigration policies. Some Rinkeby locals claim that the riots are the work of the same group of 30~40 people, and not the suburb's population in general, and while police is usualy quick to respond when called, it is unusually sluggish in its response when riots are taking place.
I am unsure. American sources are what they are, currently, and I am quite certain that he might have spiced the incident up somewhat for some extra meme-appeal. The street thugs tend to dislike open film crews, it seems, so it is likely that it did happen, but I doubt that it was to the degree that the police had to personally escort them out and then lie and claim that they did not.
Further, the recent Rinkeby-disorder was caused by an arrest, rather than as a political re-action. It is the usual flash-point for disorders in these areas, one of those people is put under arrest, and his friends effectively throw a tantrum.
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