Swedish MPs – including government ministers – are not given chauffeur-driven cars, but have to travel by bus and train just like the people they represent.
It’s not uncommon to see Swedish cabinet ministers or city mayors queuing at a bus stop or waiting on a crowded platform for a train along with everyone else.
Even politicians using public tax money for taxis is severely frowned upon:
That’s because extraordinarily (for us), in Sweden MPs are considered to be public servants, not a class above everyone else.
Imagine.
Imagine the uproar from our own spoilt out-of-touch politicians if they had to endure everyday life as everyone else has to endure it.
Things would change very, very quickly indeed.
Boris wouldn’t be getting his Bentley, he’d have to carry on using his bike, which he’d need to get rid of the effects of all those takeaways delivered to his house.
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as it should be – always said MPs should receive no more than an average wage….What better way of making sure public transport works properly than having MPs travelling on it!!!
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They *are* actually meant to be public servants in the UK too – shame really that so many have forgotten. When I hear’ talk about ‘the political class’ I tend to think of a group of people (with a few honourable exceptions) who are in a class below the average MSM journo…
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Most MPs in the UK do not have chauffeur driven cars. That’s a lie. There are ministerial cars for official business, which are shared government cars. Most drive their own car, use a bike or are on public transport. The media has even mocked Jeremy Corbyn for taking the train, tube and riding a bike. Diane Abbott was photographed on the tube recently! Back benchers don’t have access to government cars. And if you can assure the safety of the PM and ministers and their official papers, maybe the cars, which are bullet proof, won’t be needed. The UK is a very different place to Sweden. And spreading lies about our politicians isn’t helpful. Some of them are out of touch and it’s not because of chauffeur driven cars or because they are not on public transport – they come from privileged wealthy backgrounds. It will need more than putting them on public transport to change that.
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https://www.thelocal.se/20161112/stockholm-transport-heads-defends-gender-equal-snow-clearing
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to be intelligent,white,a boy,or european is a knapsack of privelages in sweden according to social progressives living there.
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thanks for the parody of a typical communist/labour supporter. needs to be a bit more insane yet…but nearly there..
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Yes most of our politicians are enjoying the lifestyle, but I also suspect many wouldn’t want to be so near to people they are accountable to as they’ll get told a thing or two! I’m 50 years old, and I do not recall Sweden ever getting involved in things like regime change and the like, pissing away money and keeping us in debt. Sweden’s politicians may well get a pat on the back down at the tube station.
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