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You almost wonder what they do during the Christmas holidays when no it is in the middle of the second wave of a pandemic.
Jokes aside (well), for the people involved, it’s probably lucky that the incidents are so many that the details almost disappear into the noise. However, for the general impression of the government’s December, it is less successful.
The explanations have not directly impressed either. Quite the contrary.
That Stefan Löfven was able to “avoid congestion” at the Gallerian shopping temple in central Stockholm the day before Christmas Eve was not, of course, primarily due to his own phenomenal “planning”, but rather the fact that many chose for not going there this year. Because they listened to the government and the authorities.
The same, of course, applies to Morgan Johansson, according to his own statement, congestion-free sales visits to Nova in Lund.
It may have been hard to believe when you heard the government’s recurring insults, but many Swedes have obeyed the crown’s restrictions. They have canceled, postponed and canceled, in the words of encouragement from the Prime Minister.
They have chosen to leave both the Canary Islands, Sälen and the local shopping center, in favor of the home and outdoor queue for package delivery.
Many of them have probably also had the occasional awkward discussion with family or friends, where they had to defend a cautious line. Perhaps they even referred to something the Prime Minister said, it would not be strange, given that confidence in Stefan Löfven increased during the year.
It is the group that is giving the strategists of the Social Democratic parties a stomach ache right now. Because a significant part probably feels quite cheated.
A visit to a gallery may be a small thing, but they are all decisions related to the crown individually. Yet together they constitute the biggest talking point in Sweden and the world in 2020.
That is why the Defense figures sound so empty that the ministers have at least followed the letter of the General Councils, after an autumn in which the government itself was screaming at the importance of sending clear signs to people who don’t take care of themselves.
No, legally, what happened is certainly not strange. Nor is it purely human. Politically, however, it appears to be an outbreak of collective insanity.
Viktor Barth-Kron is a political commentator at Expressen.
