And our banking crisis was managed in an exemplary way, except they didn't put draconian enough legislation in place to stop future excesses.

Calling our government "conservative" is, well, I guess it's just the British way of saying "right-wing". Our government is to the left of Brown, and certainly of Blair.

This guy puts me in mind of some crazy old marxist who has become disillusioned, turned to neoliberalism and started to hate the idealised old model which couldn't meet his sky-high fantasy expectations. He has probably never even been to Sweden.

For example, the following are just outrageously blatant lies:

Take healthcare. Swedes do not enjoy free public care: it costs to see a GP. That is, if you manage to see one. Queues are long and scandals rack the system. Psychiatric care, the source of many such scandals, has a near-medieval penchant for authoritarianism with few European equivalents. People are locked up for months for not taking medicine, given no therapy, and spat out of the system into despair and destitution. The mentally ill die in wards and in outpatient isolation. And they do not even have charities to turn to because state-run healthcare is supposed to work: this is Sweden, after all.