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Those pesky Swiss have the BBC's knickers in a twist - Swiss right in political avalanche:

The far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) has won the biggest share of the vote in parliamentary elections, throwing a decades-old system of consensus government into turmoil.
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The party, once the smallest of four governing parties in the Swiss coalition, is now the largest.
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The party has doubled its share of the popular vote in the last 10 years.

The "turmoil" is that they will have to rearrange things in the coalition cabinet to maintain proportional representation. What really chaps the BBC's hide is actually:

The party ran an anti-foreigner campaign, in which asylum seekers were portrayed as criminals and drug dealers.
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The United Nations refugee agency also said the party's propaganda contained some of the most anti-asylum advertisements ever seen in Europe.

Say what? The United Nations is messing about in a national election?

Yep - UN condemns Swiss asylum rhetoric:

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Ron Redmond said publicity by the People's Party (SVP) was among the most blatantly anti-asylum seen in Europe.

A recent newspaper advertising campaign said left-wing policies had left the country with, among other things, "a brutal Albanian mafia" and "black African" domination of drug crime.
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The advertisement suggested that foreigners had played a major part in the surge in violent crime in recent years.

"Instead of severely punishing stubborn, criminal asylum-seekers, we give them apartments, jobs and welfare," it said.

How un-PC!

And Ron is wagging his finger:

"The politicisation of the asylum issue, and rampant manipulation of facts and statistics... to cast asylum seekers and refugees in as ugly a light as possible in support of a fixed political agenda is a disturbing phenomenon wherever it happens," he said.

"Recently in many industrialised countries it's happening all too often," he added.

The agency spokesman said some European politicians were deliberately using the term "asylum seeker" alongside words such as "terrorist", "criminal", "rape", "disease", "fraud" and "bogus" during campaigning.

Correspondents say that while the agency has frequently criticised similar phenomena elsewhere in Europe, these remarks are unusually strong and indicate a growing concern.

That'll learn 'em, Ron!

But hold on a sec!

Meanwhile SVP General Secretary Gregor Rutz described Mr Redmond's comments as "absolutely scandalous" and an interference in Swiss politics.

Ya think?

Ya gotta admire the United Nations bureaucrats. On one hand, they sponsor some of the most decrepit and scandalous Third World dictators who ever lorded over benighted pest holes and on the other, they lecture First World citizens on how it's their responsibility to bring into their homes any citizens of the pest holes who make a break for the border. I believe the technical term for this is "Maximization of Expense Account Opportunities" or perhaps "Enhancing Upside Career Potential".

But spouting off in a national political campaign? That's a new low even for them. On the other hand, we already have UN bueaucrats gadding about on propaganda tours in the USA. How along before one of them pipes up during a campaign?

Please!