{"title": "The Unrestrained Man of the National Coalition | Sture Fjäder | Negotiator 162", "titleOriginal": "Kokoomuksen hillitön mies | Sture Fjäder | Neuvottelija 162", "episodeNumber": "162", "guest": "Sture Fjäder", "publishedAt": "2022-11-20", "duration": "44:42", "durationIso": "PT44M42S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1T5WAxy5A", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/233-kokoomuksen-hilliton-mies-sture-fjader-neuvottelija-162", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["finnish_economy_policy", "leadership_governance"], "description": "Sture Fjäder, for many years president of the Finnish confederation of professionals Akava, is moving into party politics and says plainly why. The episode covers public debt, an employment rate trailing the other Nordic countries, and the question Fjäder says nobody asks: whether everything currently paid for out of tax revenue is actually needed. He argues for lower income tax, Canadian-style work-based immigration and voucher-funded primary healthcare. It also carries his criticism of the nurse staffing ratio and of the social and health services reform, and a discussion of why defending a market economy remains such a delicate subject in Finland.", "chapters": [], "sourceTranscriptType": "none", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. No chapter marks are published here: the publisher's list holds only two marks, at 0:00 and 0:45, and the second one's own text quotes a timestamp of 44:42 — it is a split of the show-note text rather than a chapter list, so republishing it would assert timestamps that do not hold. No transcript is published either — the channel has no English caption track for this episode and the Finnish one is YouTube's automatic track. The guest was preparing a parliamentary candidacy for the National Coalition Party when this was recorded, and the episode is his platform in his own words; the labour-market organisations and the healthcare professions he criticises are not represented in it.", "coreTheses": ["The question Fjäder wants asked is prior to the usual one: not how to fund the state's commitments, but which of them are still needed.", "A labour-market leader moving into party politics changes what he can say, and the episode is partly about that transition.", "Work-based immigration on the Canadian points model is presented as a growth instrument rather than a social policy.", "The employment-rate gap with the other Nordics is treated as the single number that summarises the problem he is describing."], "slug": "ep162-kokoomuksen-hilliton-mies-sture-fjader", "guestsCanonical": ["Sture Fjäder"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/sture-fjader/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep162-kokoomuksen-hilliton-mies-sture-fjader/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep162-kokoomuksen-hilliton-mies-sture-fjader/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "yt1T5WAxy5A", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "metadata_only", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep162-kokoomuksen-hilliton-mies-sture-fjader/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep162-kokoomuksen-hilliton-mies-sture-fjader/"}