From the department of Irony

The Brits have decided not to let Geert Wilders in. Of course, he is shocked, just shocked – but why? Isn’t it what he teaches: close the borders from extremist elements?

Local council elections / Finland

I noticed that I am not able to vote in the local council elections of my previous dear home city Helsinki. Makes sense, since I’ve already actually voted in Delft (my vote went for GroenLinks, although nowadays, knowing a bit more, I would probably cast it for SP). But anyway.

Plenty of my friends were happy to vote and some were even taking part:

Helsinki

Yuri Akseli Höykinpuro (The Left Alliance)

Eva Isaksson (Greens)

J. Pekka Mäkelä (Greens)

Espoo

Jerri Kämpe (Swedish Party)

Tampere

Anukaisa Alanen (Greens)

Alas, none of them was actually elected. The Helsinki council got a bit weird, with a so-called “multiculturalism critic” gaining a large number of votes. We’ll see how this effects the city itself. I am beginning to feel that I’ve already been away for so long (over 3 years!) that the city has changed. Yeah, I can’t find my way around Kamppi anymore, but also mentally, and not only geographically.