Talk:Finns Party

Prologue

I thought this was fairly interesting http://sixteenvolts.blogspot.com/2005/12/party-for-rest-of-us.html#links Rast 00:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

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Centre Left?

Why does this article describe the party as "Centre-left"? This makes almost no sense to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.106.237.249 (talk) 22:21, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

True Finns and Libertas

I've removed Libertas from the True Finns European affiliation. Please note the following:

• Timo Soini signed Libertas's request for recognition as a political party at European level.[1]
• Timo Soini is a member of Libertas.eu as an individual.
• Timo Soini's membership as an individual did not create a membership for True Finns as a party.
• Timo Soini is not a MEP.
• True Finns specifically did not contend the 2009 European parliament elections under a Libertas banner.[2]
• Libertas did not claim any candidates from Finland as Libertas candidates.[3]

What do you need to take from this?

• No True Finn MEP has affiliated to Libertas as an individual.
• True Finns have not affiliated to Libertas as a party.

Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 12:22, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Left-wing nationalism?

From looking at the policies of this party, could this party not be considered Left-wing nationalist? I know it would be a bit ironic, considering they are labeled as right-wing populists, but anyways it seems not far from the truth? -TheG (talk) 11:57, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure. The list of policies on the article seem a bit inaccurate. They are reasonably pro-welfare as is common amongst right-wing populists in a lot of Europe, but the article over-emphasises that aspect of them. Iain3217 (talk) 17:53, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

What they are is nationalist socially and socialist economically. National-socialist would be more proper... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.148.68 (talk) 10:53, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

'True' Finns

Surely 'Basic Finns' is a better translation. They are not Varsinaissuomalaiset.88.193.200.140 (talk) 12:17, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

"Ordinary Finns" would be even better but "True Finns" is the one used by the media and the party itself.--Ap4k (talk) 16:25, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

We use the official english name, which is True Finns. --128.214.69.202 (talk) 13:11, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

If the party itself has an official English name, Wikipedia has to use it, even if the name is not an accurate translation (which it is not, as has been noted above.) JIP | Talk 20:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Is this really an official name? The party doesn't even have an English version of their website, nor a en english logo! (Tomakaze (talk) 08:49, 19 April 2011 (UTC))

The swedish name Sannfinländerna is official name, and translates directly to True Finns 193.167.107.251 (talk) 21:33, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Tone

The tone, particularly of the lead, appears to be inappropriate, reading more like a pro-party newspaper feature than an encyclopedia article. Someone with a contextual knowledge of Finnish politics should be able to tome it down a little. Acroterion (talk) 12:31, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes, the trouble in this is, one can't certainly say where the context may be found. Probably the only unifying aspect here is the anti-EU/anti-immigration sentiment apparent in the leading politicians speeches. They have a political program up somewhere, but I don't know if it's printed in English and I for one don't want to translate it. 85.76.101.37 (talk) 06:50, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

'National Socialism'

I noticed this being a part of the 'Issues' section "Oppinins resembling the ones of the National Socialist Party in 1930's Germany", is this based on any truth or is it merely a smear against the party? I myself am not knowledgable on the party however I severely doubt this is true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gamble1993 (talk • contribs) 22:33, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

It's not smear, it's just acknowledging a fact. Unfortunately, it is true they are national-socialist, maybe not willing to go as far as the NSDAP, but the basic premises are the same. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.148.68 (talk) 10:56, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

What kinds of ideas are shared by the parties? --Gamble1993 (talk) 13:25, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Well, just like the NSDAP and Nazis the True Finns are good friends of the Jewish state Israel... or wait? (sarchasm) – Bellatores (t.) 14:07, 18 April 2011 (UTC)