In the dark corridors of the Riksdag walks a figure who looks more like a caricature from the satirist Kent Wisti’s pen, than one of the highest representatives of the kingdom.
The chairman of the justice committee, Richard Jomshof (SD), started the working week by urging member of parliament Daniel Riazat (V) to “move from Sweden”.
The open racism should probably be interpreted as a manifestation of Jomshof’s inner turmoil. As I wrote about before, Jomshof spends large parts of his working time fantasizing about evil plans from people with different eye color than his own. He is completely obsessed. He doesn’t seem to be doing well.
In a more reasonable world, Richard Jomshof would have been handing out conspiratorial pamphlets in the subway or possibly gaping into a megaphone, alone in a square, while passers-by looked down. Parents had pointed at him and said that’s what happens to you if you don’t do your homework and eat your spinach.
But the Tidöparties have promoted the choleric Jomshof to one of the most influential people in Sweden. He is the powerful chairman of the justice committee. A fool on a throne.
After the latest of many racist bravadoes, it is time for him to be forced out of his post. The Speaker should react forcefully against this clear violation of the Riksdag members’ code of conduct. If there are any decent voices left in the Time League, they should speak up.
But it is strangely silent from the right, which last week thought it was a scandal that Magdalena Andersson dared to wonder how the right-wing debater Henrik Jönssons was financed.
Jomshof’s racism should have gotten him fired a long time ago. Now is the chance again.
