..........that the only people who vote for your party are the confused and the senile!

What does it mean?

Because you needed proof ?

Well thats a tricky advertisement meant to deceive you. They are trying to get a "no" vote by tricking people into the belief that a "no" vote means against " Abzockerie". Abzocken= ripping off. The Swiss people have to vote soon to put an end to the " rip offs" by banks etc. A " no " vote would support the " ripping off".


Its the advertising campaign from SVP. Hard to explain it actually. Better you learn more German eh!

No I don't need any proof!!

Come on, that's a lousy answer. Many people on this forum aren't living on the German side nor have any need to learn it.

Absolutely.They're just windmill-tilters and provocateurs, sort of would be-right wingers, politically incorrect for political incorrectness' sake, hence their anarcho-capitalist tendencies.

They don't even have a rudimentary grasp on politics and history.At first they tried to pass themselves off as right-wing, which they aren't, now they're trying to pass themselves off as "bürgerlich" (bourgeois) which they aren't either, since the term "bürgerlich" originated from the french revolution where civil society and civil rights were constituted (as oppposed to feudal society which had existed up to that point), so in order to be "bürgelich" they'd have to be egalitarian (liberté.egalité.fraternité.maxim of the french revolution) which clearly they aren't either (for example they call themselves the middle-class party and favouring one specific class is anti-egalitarian)
a loser-party.

Ok. Then the post is just for those who understand German.

The advert is basically saying 'Stop the fatcats (rich businessmen) getting even fatter by paying themselves huge salaries'. The implication is that if you vote no in the Abzocker initiative, you will indeed stop the said fatcats doing this - this is the reverse of what will actually happen.

The Abzocker initiative is an attempt to allow shareholders in a company to vote explicitly on the salaries (and bonuses) of highly-paid staff (the said 'fatcats'), so if you vote 'no' (nein) there will be no oversight by the shareholders (i.e. the fatcats keep getting fatter).

Yes. Well said!

Except that this is the English Forum. And posting in other languages is not on.
You need to provide a translation if you are using other languages.

I think there are rules on this somewhere....

OK. You have your translation. Stop your whining! ( Jammern)

Is your Avatar you running away, being chased by all the people who want to give you a slap?

Can't be me. I've never worn a suit in my life!

I love how they don't even bother with an Italian page... Is it because they hate the people from the italian part too or is it that the italian part is not interested?

I often read their page to show my Swiss friends how stupid they look on the international stage having a racist party with so much power.

Their older advertising campaigns-especially those dealing with foreigners- sometimes reminded me of the propaganda campaigns of the Nazi's.

This (the advertising campaign as opposed to the initiative), isn't such a big deal. IMO the ad. goes against the stance that one would expect the SVP to take here - purely because the initiative originated in the socialist camp; so the right have to oppose it.

You actually failed to grasp the meaning of the campaign. The parliament agreed on a "counter-law" and if the people says "no" to Minders proposal, this one will come automatically into effect. Some (including Mr. Blocher, although he supported Minder in the beginning, and apparently the majority of the SVP) think that this other proposal is more effective than Minders (I don't agree, I think the original is better).

So that's why it says "vote 'no' if you are against rip-off". But the campaign can only be understood by people who know what it is all about and what is going to happen after a "Yes", respectively a "No".

Hmmm...Minder is in the parliamentery group of the SVP without being part of the party itself. Minder is in no way connected to the socialist camp.

No, it's rather that most Italian speakers understand German perfectly.

Really, I don't know any who don't (and I live in a household of Italian speakers).

Anyway, it doesn't matter, they all vote the way I tell them to vote!

Tom