Sanna Marin’s Night Out

[Kratz]

I don’t see this being discussed anywhere else, but there seems to be a ridiculous campaign against Finnish PM Sanna Marin for daring to have a night out with friends. She has even agreed to take a drug test.

Do we have any Finns here (obviously there’s @Suomi himself) - is this as big of a story in Finland as it is being portrayed in certain European tabloids?

 

[straightorbroken]

Was Alda there?

 

[Kratz]

Was Alda there?

Yes, hence it was a Real Good Time

 

[GNL]

This thread title set me up for disappointment. Was expecting some prime time Scandi TV show where they choose their next Shlager diva to feed to the minotaur, and instead got political drama

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

I was thinking of posting the video in the female leaders topic.She’s young, she looks great and a lot of people seem to see no problem in her having fun.

@Lume is a Finn.

 

[Lucille]

It could be worse.

 

[Mats]

good for her!

she should ask all of the Finnish Parliament to take a drug test as well bet some would squirm at the thought of that

 

[Kratz]

It’s all just so unedifying - woman has night out. Who cares. It’s refreshing to see a normal person in politics living a normal life.

(She’s also gorgeous, but that is besides the point)

 

[GinAg (39)]

She's beautiful and having a lovely night out in the middle of what I presume is the summer break, as it is across the northern hemisphere. I presume this is a right ring ploy. Pigs.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

They’ve been criticising her for even less before, like wearing a leather jacket.

I wonder if not the Russian trolls are involved too…

 

[Madíson]

I’ve genuinely seen this reaction from a gay Scottish Tory in his twenties:

“Finnish gossip mag Seiska has today published testimony and video that shows she was in such a state of drunkenness in a Helsinki nightclub that it shocked those present. She then proceeded to intimately flirt with men who aren't her husband, whilst her actual husband is forced to stay at home with their four year old. That's more than simply "enjoying herself". It not only brings the Finnish Prime Ministership into moral disrepute, but it's a national security threat too. She wouldn't be in any position to respond to a crisis and Finland would be rudderless until she sobered up. She either needs to grow up, or resign”

“What she did demeans the office she holds. A leader should set an example.”

 

[Lucille]

Scottish Tory in his twenties

 

[Peekaboo]

"intimately flirts with men who aren't her husband" would be a great t-shirt.

 

[OutSynk]

Yeah I was just thinking about this yesterday when I saw it on the FRONT PAGE of one of the newspapers. All I could think was good for her for not being a complete bore unlike those who criticize her and I wanna party with her.

 

[PercyPig]

Man forced to stay at home with kids for once shock

 

[lolly]

I have a Finnish friend at work who has had a 6 month sabbatical to go back to Turku. She's back at work the week after next, so I'll get her hot take on it.

But really, wouldn't you partly vote for a PM in their 30s partly because you want someone who lives like a normal woman in her 30s?

 

[dmlaw]

Frankly all of the criticism of her is little more than thinly veiled misogyny. Plus I’m sure the middle aged male cunts who pile down two bottles of wine with dinner would be just fine if a crisis came up in the late evening.

 

[Lume]

It’s all just so unedifying - woman has night out. Who cares. It’s refreshing to see a normal person in politics living a normal life.

Yeah, this is definitely the general consensus, but there are a few uptight neurotics on board and the media keeps milking it since it's been a quiet week. It's getting quite boring by now.

 

[D5K]

If only our prime minister had been forced to take a drug test during his time in office.

 

[OutSynk]

Shocking footage of Sanna and Estonia's prime minister Kaja Kallas enjoying a girls' night out after long discussion of tourist visa bans for Russians.

 

[GinAg (39)]

CLEARED

BBC News - Sanna Marin: Finland PM's drugs test negative after party video

Sanna Marin: Finland PM's drugs test negative after party video

Sanna Marin took the test to allay concerns after several videos showed her dancing at a party.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Peekaboo]

Oh I'm sure they'll all shut up about it now and let her be right

 

[OutSynk]

Are we sure the test results can be trusted? The videos showed her DANCING.

 

[Sheena]

Thing that gets me is that the drugs would be long out of her system anyway, right? Which shows that the idiots calling for the drugs test in the first place are entirely out of touch with the whole business anyway!

 

[lolly]

Depends what type of test they did.

 

[Lucille]

Shows how JOYLESS these fucks are. Oh she’s having a good time? She must be ON DRUGS.

 

[GNL]

Can we get Liz to apologise for party rocking with the LGBT Cons next.

Definitely snorted some bacon bits in the Sub 101 bathrooms.

 

[wildchild]

I’m from Finland and I find it interesting how this case is presented in the foreign media. It’s not about her partying but more about the security aspect of it e.g. people she trusts, whether she would be able to work in case of an emergency since she’s on duty, when there’s footage of her wanted off her ass etc. There’s a leaked photo from her Prime Minister residence where two women get their tits out in her office, where they are not supposed to be. If you knew the influencers she parties with.. imagine your PM hanging out with Jordan. Last winter she went out partying after she had knowingly been in the presence of a person with COVID, which at the time, was against the policy, and left her office phone home. There’s critique of her concentrating on building her image and avoiding difficult political subjects. It’s frustrating as she’s the kind of person who could get a lot done. We are still granting visas to Russian tourists for instance — Kaia Kallas would not have any of that. The fuss is not about misogony but of course it’s easy to twist it there.

 

[wildchild]

Thing that gets me is that the drugs would be long out of her system anyway, right? Which shows that the idiots calling for the drugs test in the first place are entirely out of touch with the whole business anyway!

Apparently they could catch them from a hair sample but for some reason she went for urine which won’t show anymore.

 

[wildchild]

Shocking footage of Sanna and Estonia's prime minister Kaja Kallas enjoying a girls' night out after long discussion of tourist visa bans for Russians.

Are people contempt with Kaia in Estonia? She’s praised a lot here.

 

[wildchild]

They’ve been criticising her for even less before, like wearing a leather jacket.

I wonder if not the Russian trolls are involved too…

I don’t think the Finnish media criticised her for that. On the contrary it was praised as well as this iconic festival look

 

[OutSynk]

Are people contempt with Kaia in Estonia? She’s praised a lot here.

During Covid she was criticized a lot for how she was handling it but during the war she's been praised a lot. Of course the far right cunts will ridicule her no matter what.

 

[OutSynk]

Queen of Instagram filters

 

[OutSynk]

The way she's STRUTTING through that pavement like she's on a runway in the second post. QUEEN!

 

[Kratz]

She really is an incredibly beautiful person

 

[Kratz]

 

[Peekaboo]

He should have said BOYS AND MAKE-UP, the fucking coward, instead of "common stuff", as that's clearly what he was trying to imply. Shame on him.

 

[Kratz]

Shocking footage of Sanna and Estonia's prime minister Kaja Kallas enjoying a girls' night out after long discussion of tourist visa bans for Russians.

No doubt they’ll be out on the town again like this…

 

[VoR]

The party’s over



Her centre left party fell to third behind the centre-right and far right parties.

 

[dmlaw]

Bizarrely, it looks like her party gained seats but that nearly all of her coalition partners lost them to the centre or far right, meaning that the bellend coalition can get to a majority.