I´m canvassing for Labour - even though, as a Swede, I can´t vote in this election | Susanna Kierkegaard
(The Guardian Sweden)

Labour´s radical programme is what Britain needs, and is a reminder to my country and Europe of what social democracy looks likeThe UK election is probably none of my business. I don´t live here and I can´t vote. And yet I´m so invested in the outcome, I have decided to come over from Sweden to volunteer for the Labour party, handing out flyers and knocking on doors. Having grown up in Sweden, I already know some of Jeremy Corbyn´s proposed policies can work. I´ve benefited from free school lunches, have had access to university without tuition fees, and received free dental checkups into my 20s.Despite having access to all these things back home, I chose to come to the UK in 2014 to do my degree at Oxford University. The combination of subjects in my degree, the tutors who made me think so hard I sometimes thought my head would fall off, and the beautiful city made it worth moving. However, the cultural difference was shocking as I got a glimpse of the class divide in Britain and what life outside the Scandinavian welfare model looks like.Where Sweden´s Social Democrats have lost the plot, the UK now has an opportunity to change course on similar sentiments Related: Writing Labour´s manifesto was a messy process. But it´s bolder and better for it | Sienna Rodgers Continue reading...