So... you're a foreigner in Switzerland, you're a bit miffed about all these horrible posters that paint you and your fellow foreigners as brutes, scoundrels, criminals and parasites, but you don't have the right to vote.

Apart from letting off steam on the internet, what can you do about it?

All answers gratefully received.

Laugh it off...

nothing honestly, it's not their country

Did you recently give your password to transition?

prove them wrong...


(oh. and take a black sharpie marker to the posters and add a creative touch...)

Since you asked for it: exploit the swiss system by misusing a company jacket

I know that wifey is impartial to your belly, but how does she feel about your impotent outrage?

And do you leave your discounted jacket on?

It didn't work the last time.

Form the EFP

I would stand in front of the offending poster during the rush hour and gently stare and shake my head slowly side to side.

Sort of, what Swiss people do, when they can't understand something.

Seriously, is there any possibility of forming our own political party? What does the constitution say?

Nothing. Each time someone has made me feel like I'm a crappy foreigner, someone else comes along and makes me feel the opposite.

Print out a hundred of the attached and put them up around your community (probably translate into perfect Swiss German, which I can't do).

Shoot people

Prove them wrong. And maybe try and understand where these fears that the SVP pries on come from.

Think and be different. It's good for Switzerland.

Smile to them, gracefully, knowing that they are getting old, not being replaced by aborigenes and that we, the foreigners, will eventually take over the joint.

Well I am a foreigner, and I am also Swiss. And I will vote.

Who are 'they' exactly?

Tell all your neighbours around here, (who think you're nuts anyway and have threatened to shoot your Rottweilers, who think it's a scandal that you have horses (arabian at that) on land that has been dairy seen (their) God was a boy) that you are selling your farm to a charity in Zurich (the BIG smoke) who want to provide a mountain retreat to children from illegal immigrants homes so they can see really get in touch with the Swiss countryside and traditional farming practices.

Also tell them what wonderful work this charity does and how you are so confident that you, my lovely God fearing religious neighbours, will welcome these deprived children into your homes to give them such a heart warming Swiss welcome.

Then put your ear to the ground and listen for the rumour to spread around the mountain like wild fire in, about 37 seconds flat.

Offers to buy your farm at well above the market rate will come flooding in the next day.

I love it!

(Remind me though never to get on the rough side of your lovely Swiss OH... )