Finland's acute govt crisis averted as True Finns party splinters (as planned)

Treachery is in the air. Apparently some people made a choice to put their career first and loyalty second. In short, the smallest coalition govt party, True Finns (perussuomalaiset), has splintered into two groups after the bigger coalition govt parties said that they would not cooperate with the newly elected controversial party leader and MEP Jussi Halla-Aho due to his ideology and thought crimes. The newly splintered group called New Alternative (uusi vaihtoehto) comprised of former party leader Timo Soini's ideological entourage and with the 21 and counting members of this fresh parliamentary group the coalition can form a narrow majority government and push through the highly coveted social and healthcare reforms (sote) and new county administration layout (maakuntauudistus). It remains to be seen whether the Centre Party, the National Coalition Party and  the New Alternative can pull through all the stops and form a functioning lame duck government. The opposition parties call for new elections due to mistrust over the new conditions within the splintering.

Moral outrage 101: Some people interpreted these hand signs as Nazi salutes at the True Finns convention

All in all, the Centre Party wants to solidify its rule for the next 20 or so years with the new county administration reform which would, in layman's terms, introduce 10–18 new counties, a completely new layer of administration with unknown statutes and powers. The National Coalition Party is aiming to privatize more and more of the public built infrastructure to party connected business insiders and foreign service providers. The healthcare reforms would boost private healthcare providers access to lucrative markets whereas all the non-profitable healthcare would be still in public control. My estimate is that the mainline True Finns like the longstanding populist party leader Timo Soini wants in on this financial action and by supporting these reprehensible actions to short sell our countries' assets, he intends to land a lucrative retirement plan like many previous ministers within the government.

Counter coup within True Finns to save career and future revenue

The new True Finns leader Halla-Aho enjoyed merely three days of leadership until the clic within the party decided splinter. Foreign minister and former party leader Soini didn't refer his own actions as abandoning the party he helped to rise to power. The party under Soini's lead was mired with flirting with racists as many members had expressed the unthinkable and had made some unsavory and undignified remarks of people of foreign persuasion. However, this was only a public image problems and didn't seem to warrant any concern out of the coalition partner who recently had to denounce cooperation with one of the racists who rose to party leadership positions thus triggering the unfortunate chain of events which will most likely lead to demise of everyone involved.

"The look when you betray the party you created to secure job as foreign minister." / Former True Finns leader Timo Soini flip-flop supreme

People can complain all they want. Halla-Aho is a condemned thought criminal under Finnish law and he paid the fines for the 'hate speech' he expressed. That said I feel, even though just before the True Finns party convention in early June, it became public knowledge that the conservative candidate had indeed had an extramarital affair, that Halla-Aho was in this case the more honest person of what he thinks and feels. And being overtly racist in some remarks was apparently too much the coalition partners who expressed there was too deep an ideological gap even though the actions might be more discriminating than words.

Saying mean stuff is worse than getting hands dirty

Racism, hate speech and thought crimes are very much a daily topic in the Finnish media. Recently, it was made public that the Finnish police had a private Facebook group where certain members had made racist and unbecoming remarks for public office. The moral outrage was luckily short lived but will most likely lead to an internal review by the police administration. That said, it was rather embarrassing for the police force, who by the way, is supposed to monitor 'hate speech' online, to commit some of the crimes themselves. It is true that online conversation lacks tact and is mired with racist and bigoted views. Add to that incendiary and falsified reports of fake incidents, hearsay and rumors of refugee or immigrant crimes home and abroad and that'll make a fine cesspool. Unfortunately, some opportunists like to give credit for spreading this muck to the Russian government. This kind of counter intelligent agent and pundits want to spread in turn their own biased anti-Russian views which could also be seen as 'racist' in nature.

So far the splintering and the demise of True Finns hasn't been credited to Russians colluding to weaken the Finnish democracy but to this narrative to form it will take time before some columnists figures out Putin's telepathic brainwashing powers were behind this hatchling of a crisis.

True Finns media platform Suomen Uutiset asks: Halla-Aho or Soini?

Currently, it seems that the media is for the most part rejoicing that the racist bunch was overthrown and betrayed by their party comrades. Although, some are still very concerned about the credibility of the lame duck government and how can the New Alternative splinter cell enjoy any kind of mandate in this new context. It must be highlighted that the New Alternative has twice the support as the remaining True Finns when it comes to counting the members' vote count in the previous election. The New Alternative as a name is indeed a sloppy joke since ideologically it is old, corrupted and for sale, and all those qualities can hardly be called new or alternative. Morally the govt couldn't be more bankrupt. It is also unfortunate that at the moment the economy has taken a positive turn which in turn makes it harder to pursue more austerity and advocate selling state property.

The Finnish mentality wants to project positive image and therefore partnering with a thought criminal was a no-no. The best kind of corruption is hidden and kept out of sight. Shoot the messenger. The prime minister Juha Sipilä has had a bad spring. First, he wanted to the public news service YLE to portray him and his actions in a more favorable light, and after that in early June, a local monthly newspaper Seura shed light into how he became a millionaire through insider collusion and 'organized crime' where public property and assets are sold below their true price to insiders who can later sell the assets with huge profit. Sounds like public and private sector cross over in organized crime defrauding all of the countries tax payers.

All we can say at this point is that the future looks uncertain. It is unlikely that the social and healthcare reforms riddled with legal problems can pass this year adding more pressure to the govt coalition. It is a real mess, similar to UK. Globalists have once more taken advantage. Can we fight back in time?

Immigration vs. EU-integration

The old praetorian guard is willing more or less to follow the establish coalition policy whereas the newly elected True Finns were highly critical of EU and its pro-immigration policies. It is to be noted sincerely that the True Finns even under the new leadership were willing to continue the old plan were it to be followed. It seems that the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party wanted to alter the policy at this point to accommodate deeper EU integration led by Germany.

Anti-immigration stance gained quickly lot of popularity and fervent opposition after 2015 refugee crisis brought masses of asylum seekers into Scandinavia. The overreaction was bigger than anticipated. It is expected that this negative trend will continue even after the next election, but at this point it is still too early to see whether there is a possible snap election next year.