Stop hounding the countryside to fix the municipality's pipes

There is an ongoing, silent witch hunt with no legal certainty against rural residents and holiday home owners in municipalities. Under the guise of ”environmental considerations”, municipal inspectors make five-minute visits and condemn fully functioning private sewage systems based solely on the age of the installation. Subsequently, residents are forced into exorbitantly expensive municipal water and sewerage solutions with mandatory connection fees of up to 400,000 kronor per property. For pensioners and families with children, this is a financial blow that in the worst case leads to the forced sale of their home.

Officials” decision-making data is rarely based on established facts in the form of measurements, but rather on loose guesses. The reports are overflowing with phrases such as ”it can be assumed”, ”it is probable” and ”cannot be ruled out". Is it worthy of a state governed by rule of law to ruin private individuals based on hypothetical risk scenarios?

However, the municipality's own sewage treatment plants overflow millions of litres of untreated sewage directly into our lakes during heavy rain. Yet it is the holiday cottage in the countryside that is portrayed as the environmental villain.

It is not about the environment – it is about money.

Sweden's municipalities have a massive maintenance backlog of approximately SEK 600 billion within the central water and sewage network up to the year 2040. By mandating the connection of rural cabins, current property owners are forced to pay for pipes that are oversized for the municipality's future development plans and growth. Residents are practically forced to give the municipality an interest-free loan to finance an ever-growing municipal administrative apparatus.

Furthermore, this procedure contravenes the law. Parliament tightened the Water Services Act in 2023. The municipality is now obliged to investigate whether residents' needs can be met more cheaply and better through local joint facilities. Yet people are being steamrollered. The Land and Environment Court of Appeal has also established that the municipality may not condemn a sewage system solely on the basis of its age – they must prove an actual, functional defect. Yet the administration is ignoring this.

To our democratically elected politicians on the environmental committees: It is not acceptable to routinely say that ”the documentation is good enough for me” when your decisions crush people's lives and personal finances. You are elected by the citizens, not by the officials. Take control of your administration! Demand that inspectors stop issuing age-based bans, demand real evidence and analytical results instead of subjective guesses. Respect the 2023 law by allowing those who live in the countryside to build their own individual or smart communal solutions.

Mikael Richter

Ambition Sverige

Anneli Kullberg

Ambition Sverige Mark

A welfare state or a betrayal?

Who should Sweden be for – and where did the "Folkhemmet" go?

There are moments when we must stop and ask: What are we doing? Who are we building society for? And who is paying the price?

In Bäckebo lives Ingemo Keib, aged 78. She is a widow and in poor health, a person who has done everything ”right” in life. She has worked, paid taxes, looked after her family, and tended to her home. A person who has never asked for more than to live her final years in security. 

But in today's Sweden, that's no longer enough.

She is now forced to pay for a VA connection she never ordered, an ”opportunity” she cannot use. She is forced to mortgage her home to finance a decision she was never involved in. She is forced to live on 800 kronor a month while the municipality takes 72,422 kronor in seizure. 

She is forced to confront an authority with unlimited resources, while she herself can't even afford to take a new water sample.

This is not befitting a country that once built its society on the idea of security, solidarity, and justice.

This is not worthy of a country that called itself a people's home.

What is a 'folkhem' if not a promise? A promise that the weak will not be crushed by the system. A promise that the elderly will not have to fear their own municipality. A promise that authorities will stand by the citizen – not above them.

Today we are seeing something else. We see how regulations, written far from people's everyday lives, are applied without regard for the consequences. We see how municipalities refer to ”strict legislation” while people lose their homes. We see how financially weak households are forced to bear costs that would break even a well-off family. We see how the balance of power has shifted – from the citizen to the authority.

People like Ingemo, who have helped to build this country, are now being forced to give up the little they have left.

It is not only unfair, but inhuman.

When people can no longer defend themselves against such decisions, when they are forced to remortgage their homes to comply with incomprehensible municipal regulations – then something important in society has broken. 

That is why the association ”VA i Tiden” (Water Supply in Time) exists. That is why we write and protest.

Ingemo's fall is not an exception, but one of many cases that show we have a systemic error.

We are not demanding privileges or special treatment. We are simply demanding what was once self-evident: that people be treated with dignity and that authorities take responsibility for their own mistakes. That laws be applied with reasonableness. Is this truly too much to ask?

Mikael Richter
Ambition Sverige

Stop starving our elderly on the altar of climate alarmism

Sweden has a growing debt to the generation that built the country. This isn't just about pensions or hospital beds, but about something as basic as the food on the plate. Under the guise of ”climate-smart food” and the finger-wagging of Agenda 2030, our elderly are today being forced to eat a nutrient-poor diet that directly harms their health. It's time we stopped prioritising ideological climate narratives over science and quality of life.

Science speaks plainly

The research is clear, but is widely ignored by the politically correct in the corridors of power. Studies published in, among others The Journal of the Medical Association showing that a higher intake of meat is linked to a lower risk of dementia. Older people who eat plenty of meat and animal protein exhibit significantly better cognitive ability than those forced onto a plant-based diet. Meat is not just food; it is brain fuel.

Older people need more protein, more fat, and higher nutrient density to maintain muscle mass and cognition. At this stage, replacing nutritious meat with processed substitutes or ”climate-smart” vegetable purées is nothing short of a medical experiment on a defenceless group.

Malnutrition as a result of climate hysteria

While we talk about sustainability, food waste in elderly care is increasing at an alarming rate. Why? Because the food served is in far too large portions to provide adequate nutrition. When the food doesn't taste good or satisfy, it ends up in the bin. The result is spiralling malnutrition, leading to falls, confusion and premature death.

It is an absurd betrayal that Swedish tax money is used to finance a ”climate transition” that is literally starving our taxpayers. To pit human health against a dubious climate narrative is deeply unethical. Agenda 2030 has become a straitjacket that suffocates common sense and evidence-based healthcare.

Ambition Sverige calls for change

We at Ambition Sverige do not accept that our elderly are being made the victims of international agendas and scaremongering. We demand:

• Real meat on the plate: Proteins and fats from animal sources must be prioritised to ensure cognitive health.
• Evidence over ideology: Costs within elderly care should be guided by geriatric research, not by climate activists.
• End of the platitudes: Throw Agenda 2030 in the bin and focus on ensuring that those who built our country receive the nourishment they deserve.

Providing our elderly with proper food is not a climate issue – it is a matter of basic respect and medical decency. It is time we prioritised Swedish lives over global narratives.

Anneli Kullberg

Ambition Sverige Mark

Imagine your grandmother, mother, grandfather. She who baked cinnamon buns, he who told stories from the war and held your hand when you were scared. Now they sit and wait for home care. The plastic container with the industrially produced food needs to be heated in a non-existent microwave. The vegetables are pale, the pea patty tasteless and the potatoes overcooked. The nutritional content makes the elderly weaker each day. Undernourished, exhausted, alone. The staff don't have time to sit and talk. They hurry on to the next.

When she coughs a bit too much or seems tired, the ”comfort injections” suddenly appear. Palliative care, they call it. ”Grandma is going to die,” as the investigative journalism programme so ruthlessly revealed in its series. Medications intended for the very last hours of life are given to people who are still eating, drinking, and awake, sometimes without a proper medical examination and without relatives always being informed. This is not end-of-life care – it is active euthanasia in practice, hidden behind fine words and overloaded systems. How many grandmothers and grandfathers have faded away too early because someone somewhere thought it was "reasonable"?

Meanwhile, those who are still struggling are forced to deal with a society that no longer sees them. BankID, e-services and soon government digital IDs where everything is to be done via mobile phone or computer. Those who have never learned, who have trembling hands and impaired vision, or simply cannot afford the latest technology, are excluded. They cannot book appointments, pay bills or even ask for help. They become invisible. Forgotten in a Sweden that prioritises efficiency over human dignity.

This is not a coincidence. It is the result of a system that for decades has prioritised other things than those who built Sweden. We have seen how money has gone to things other than core operations, how bureaucracy and digitalization have hit the weakest hardest. And we, their children and grandchildren, have let it happen. We have hurried past, believing that our social safety nets work. Our parents have also believed that help would be there when it's needed most. But it isn't there anymore.

It's time to feel the shame. For real. For every cold meal, every unnecessary injection, every elderly person who can't reach their home care because the system demands an app.

We at Ambition Sverige In our party manifesto, we have a clear stance: elderly care should be based on Safety, dignity and respect for the individual human. The party Requires Legal protection in elderly care and that we prioritise Swedish pensioners who have toiled their entire lives. We want to significantly raise the basic deduction for pensioners so that those who built the country can keep more of their pension and avoid living in poverty. Migration, war and EU membership are draining resources from welfare – money that should instead go towards better food, more staff and care that doesn't treat people as costs.

We need a policy that puts people first again. That says no to digitalisation that excludes the generation that fought for our prosperity. That demands that palliative care is indeed relief – not a shortcut to death. That ensures food is warm, nutritious, and served with time and dignity.

Your grandmother, father or uncle doesn't deserve to die in silence while we scroll on. They deserve to be seen, heard and valued until the very end. It's time to wake up. It's time to demand elderly care with ambition – not acceptance of decline.

Anneli Kullberg

Ambition Sverige Mark