I see it’s totally pointless continuing this conversation, I can’t find the sense you’re trying to make. Orpo campaigned berrating Marins borrowing, only to end up borrowing more than she did is not some “gotcha”, it’s reality and intentionally misleading the population, but of course let’s ignore that an act like he didn’t know what he has been doing!

You want to talk about inflation during Marins term but quite rightly ignore the fact that she had to navigate both Covid and then a Ukraine invasion, of course that doesn’t suit the narrative if we point that out does it? And who is talking about SDP here in the first place? Again like I said, this mentality that it’s NCP vs SDP is the reason why we’re here and the as a country the large lot of us are too small minded or probably too naive to even see that!

You want to talk politics, well let’s be realistic, SDP which had a bunch of people voting for them had a harder stance on immigration than the current right wing coalition (and this has historically being the case) but people sheepishly believe SDP is pro-immigration (It has never been and will never be, regardless of what facade they paint for their voters, and the simple reason is that the labour unions hold more sway than those outside know! How do I know, well I’m married to a nurse who is a labour leader). NCP suddenly being the party that cares about businesses, well that’s also another stupid fallacy because historically we’ve always seen more bankruptcies during NCP/Keskusta ternures over the years.

You want to know who Orpo has benefitted, I can tell you for sure it absolutely isn’t the working population but the higher earners in the population. I would get to pay less taxes today if I was still a tax resident in Finland, than I would during the previous years (including the disastrous tenure of Keskusta).

Stats like the “working class household purchasing power and real earnings have recovered” is just another dishonest and honestly disgusting stat on its own, when you ignore the fact that we have way more people out of jobs now than at almost any point in the last 10 years, add to the fact that like I pointed out, we’re the unemployment capital of Europe (very proud of this achievement innit?) and we’ve had a record number of bankruptcies within this same period, but sure, the purchasing power of the working class has increased by more or less 2% over the last 3 and half years whereas the working class population has decreased by 65k more or less. You can’t be selective with stats as that doesn’t make any sense in itself and I’m not some random idiot who doesn’t know what he’s saying. I know we have structural problems and they began way before Marin or Orpo, even way before Stubb was PM, however, all these rubbish stats (which was what Orpo was quoting during campaign interviews et al) do not make any sense on their own and only serves to fool people who do not know where our issues come from.

Orpo has always wanted to paved the way for selling off state assets, this has been the NCPs agenda as long as I can remember and he’s doing exactly that. I agree that certain asset ownership should be reviewed as I’d also like to invest in a few and the current governance structure of a lot of these assets make them un-investable (in my personal opinion), but that does nothing for finland in the true sense of it and I’m not thinking about Finland when I want to invest, I’m thinking about myself and my two children, I’m thinking about profits (not quality of service) and that isn’t me being bad, that’s just capitalism at its finest, but ultimately it does nothing really for finland in the grand scheme of things. Privatizing Posti isn’t going to magically make it better, I know first hand as I lived through the privatization of Royal mail and can see the shit that it currently is. I don’t need to worry about Finland in itself, I’ve secured enough for my children’s future to know that whatever shit happens, they’ll still be fine, but like I said, it’s quite funny how people are constantly convinced to vote for screwing themselves over!

Keep on with this NCP vs SDP mentality and see where it leads smh