The Six Pack

Well Finland got a new government, a coalition called the six pack, formed from the National Coalition, Social Democrats, Left Wing Alliance, The Green Party, The God damn Swedish Party and Christian Democrats. We have 19 new ministers to run the monkey farm known as the Finnish Government and here is where the weirdness begins.

Now we have 3 foreign ministers, it won't get confusing at all when the you add the president into the mix. You gotta love the tailor-made ministries, like the EU ministry specially crafted for Alex Stubb, as it won't make it at all confusing when we send the president, the foreign minister, the prime minister and Stubb into an EU summit. Stubb is very good at what he does, he is actually the first guy I ever voted for, but he isn't that awesome that we need to come up with a ministry just for him.

The foreign aid ministry is another political product of some major political clusterfuck. Granted foreign aid is important and it helps save lives, but is it that important that it needs a ministry of its own? This again is some political candy, this time to the Green Party, but I suspect that this is going to be the place where the anti-immigrant wing of the True Finns are going to went their anti-immigration frustrations. Then again the Green Party is a so called party with "values", among them NO NUCLEAR POWER, but that didn't stop them being a part of the most pro-nuclear power government in Europe, so who knows what the hell they will do with this position.

One ministry that thankfully got abolished was the immigrant ministry, largely because all the hate that the previous owner of the title got, no one was stupid enough to accept the post. Another traditionally painful ministry is the minister of agriculture, when the Center Party(Formerly the Farmer's Party)is in the opposition.