Norway's government risks splitting after a coalition partner threatened to pull its support over the repatriation of a woman who joined Islamic State in Syria
Apparently I'm over my free article limit. Bloomberg won't show me the article in private mode. Outline apparently doesn't work for Bloomberg articles. I'm too cheap to pay for it, and too lazy to...
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Thus, I am commenting on an article I haven't read. But I have read other articles about this development.
I live in Norway, and our current government coalition is completely bizarre. It consists of (from largest to smallest) the Conservative Party, the Populist Party, the Liberal Party, and the Christian Party. They are constantly bickering and changing course and blaming each other, and it's a miracle they've lasted this long. Several of the coalition members have each threatened several times to pull out; this time the Populist Party, for what I believe is the fifth time (and this time they mean it™). The only thing they have in common is that they are the four bourgeois parties. I swear I'm not making that up, that's how they describe themselves. Prime minister Solberg herself looks and sounds in interviews like she stopped caring years ago.
And the current threat really shows the inhumanity of the Populists. She's a Norwegian citizen stuck in a refugee camp, with two small children, one of them sick. Of course she should be brought home along with her children. What kind of horrible society would we be if we let that sick boy die for something his mother did? Bring them home, give her a fair trial, and let social services decide what happens to her children.
Apparently I'm over my free article limit. Bloomberg won't show me the article in private mode. Outline apparently doesn't work for Bloomberg articles. I'm too cheap to pay for it, and too lazy to delete my cookies.
Thus, I am commenting on an article I haven't read. But I have read other articles about this development.
I live in Norway, and our current government coalition is completely bizarre. It consists of (from largest to smallest) the Conservative Party, the Populist Party, the Liberal Party, and the Christian Party. They are constantly bickering and changing course and blaming each other, and it's a miracle they've lasted this long. Several of the coalition members have each threatened several times to pull out; this time the Populist Party, for what I believe is the fifth time (and this time they mean it™). The only thing they have in common is that they are the four bourgeois parties. I swear I'm not making that up, that's how they describe themselves. Prime minister Solberg herself looks and sounds in interviews like she stopped caring years ago.
And the current threat really shows the inhumanity of the Populists. She's a Norwegian citizen stuck in a refugee camp, with two small children, one of them sick. Of course she should be brought home along with her children. What kind of horrible society would we be if we let that sick boy die for something his mother did? Bring them home, give her a fair trial, and let social services decide what happens to her children.
TL;DR: Good riddance, and not a moment too soon!