Jimmie Åkesson - Revision history

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−	[[Image:Jimmie_Åkesson_2014.jpg‎ \|\|~~350px~~\|thumb\|right\|Jimmie Åkesson, Source: Frankie Fouganthin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmie_%C3%85kesson_2014.jpg/ Wikimedia Commons] ]]	+	[[Image:Jimmie_Åkesson_2014.jpg‎ \|\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Jimmie Åkesson, Source: Frankie Fouganthin/[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmie_%C3%85kesson_2014.jpg/ Wikimedia Commons] ]]
	'''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>		'''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>

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−	[[Image:Jimmie_Åkesson_2014.jpg‎ \|\|350px\|thumb\|right\|Jimmie Åkesson, Source: [Frankie Fouganthin https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmie_%C3%85kesson_2014.jpg/ Wikimedia Commons] ]]	+	[[Image:Jimmie_Åkesson_2014.jpg‎ \|\|350px\|thumb\|right\|Jimmie Åkesson, Source: Frankie Fouganthin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmie_%C3%85kesson_2014.jpg/ Wikimedia Commons] ]]
	'''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>		'''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>

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		+	[[Image:Jimmie_Åkesson_2014.jpg‎ \|\|350px\|thumb\|right\|Jimmie Åkesson, Source: [Frankie Fouganthin https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmie_%C3%85kesson_2014.jpg/ Wikimedia Commons] ]]
	'''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>		'''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>

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 ::Immigrants are, in general, a little bit more criminal than Swedes born in Sweden, and that's a fact. And you can see it especially in violence, rape and so on<ref name="Hard"/>
-==Contact==
+==Social media==
-:Twitter: [https://twitter.com/jimmieakesson @jimmieakesson]
+:Twitter: [https://twitter.com/jimmieakesson @jimmieakesson] Akesson had around 68,700 followers as of 17 February 2015
 ==Notes==

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 ==Views==
-In January 2011, Åkesson told BBC Hardtalk that Sweden's immigration policy was 'extreme' and singled out 'Muslim immigrants', saying many 'segregating themselves into suburbs' and 'build parallel societies'.<ref name"Hard">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9372832.stm Jimmie Akesson: Swedish immigration is 'extreme'], BBC Hardtalk, 25 January 2011, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>
+In January 2011, Åkesson told BBC Hardtalk that Sweden's immigration policy was 'extreme' and singled out 'Muslim immigrants', saying many 'segregating themselves into suburbs' and 'build parallel societies'.<ref name="Hard">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9372832.stm Jimmie Akesson: Swedish immigration is 'extreme'], BBC Hardtalk, 25 January 2011, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>
 He also said:
-::Immigrants are, in general, a little bit more criminal than Swedes born in Sweden, and that's a fact. And you can see it especially in violence, rape and so on<ref name"Hard"/>
+::Immigrants are, in general, a little bit more criminal than Swedes born in Sweden, and that's a fact. And you can see it especially in violence, rape and so on<ref name="Hard"/>
 ==Contact==

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	According to journalist [[Jake Wallis Simons]] in the [[Daily Telegraph]], Åkesson maintains a 'carefully crafted image of professionalism' and has a 'farmer's boy' accent which reportedly helps him appeal to anti-elite feeling among some Swedish voters. He is said to have intensified the party's modernisation programme when he became leader (for instance changing the logo to a flower) in an an attempt to sanitise its far-right politics.<ref name="JWS"/>		According to journalist [[Jake Wallis Simons]] in the [[Daily Telegraph]], Åkesson maintains a 'carefully crafted image of professionalism' and has a 'farmer's boy' accent which reportedly helps him appeal to anti-elite feeling among some Swedish voters. He is said to have intensified the party's modernisation programme when he became leader (for instance changing the logo to a flower) in an an attempt to sanitise its far-right politics.<ref name="JWS"/>
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		+	==Views==
		+	In January 2011, Åkesson told BBC Hardtalk that Sweden's immigration policy was 'extreme' and singled out 'Muslim immigrants', saying many 'segregating themselves into suburbs' and 'build parallel societies'.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9372832.stm Jimmie Akesson: Swedish immigration is 'extreme'], BBC Hardtalk, 25 January 2011, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>

	==Contact==		==Contact==

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 '''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>
-According to journalist Jake Wallis Simons in the [[Daily Telegraph]], Åkesson maintains a 'carefully crafted image of professionalism' and has a 'farmer's boy' accent which reportedly helps him appeal to anti-elite feeling among some Swedish voters. He is said to have intensified the party's modernisation programme when he became leader (for instance changing the logo to a flower) in an an attempt to sanitise its far-right politics.<ref name="JWS"/>
+According to journalist [[Jake Wallis Simons]] in the [[Daily Telegraph]], Åkesson maintains a 'carefully crafted image of professionalism' and has a 'farmer's boy' accent which reportedly helps him appeal to anti-elite feeling among some Swedish voters. He is said to have intensified the party's modernisation programme when he became leader (for instance changing the logo to a flower) in an an attempt to sanitise its far-right politics.<ref name="JWS"/>
 ==Contact==