Conservative wasps

Even in a small town, there will always be people who want to bring about change. But the smallest ones will always try to keep it as it always were.

As professional train commuter Hjalmar Nordén was walking towards the central train station of Hässleholm today, he noticed a small group of wasps taking down propaganda from the local activist groups. "It would seem as if they were not partial in their removal, but carefully mounted down both the liberal- and the right-wing propaganda that have been put up on the street lights", said the astounded on-looker to local media.

When confronted, the wasps replied fervently that they "just like Hässleholm the way it is, and neither of these two extremists will bring any good change to this town". The conservative insects then eagerly went on and took another chew at the paper. The wasps, it would seem, share the view of the narrow-minded small town residents. "Well, at least they're not all Nazis", says a provocative, anonymous social studies professor in Lund, who has been taking note of the extreme right-wing attitudes that have started to rise up in many of the small villages in the southernmost region of Sweden.

Will fewer people always mean more fright of change?