Swedish government proposes "moving Christmas" (to February!)

Published: 1st April 2005 00:09 BST+1

Swedish government proposes "moving Christmas"
As part of a raft of measures designed to increase tourism to Sweden's major cities, the government has proposed moving Christmas to February.

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The government is concerned that the number of foreign tourists visiting Sweden plummets in the winter, with only 1.5 million "tourist nights" in December compared to almost 4 million in both July and August.

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The idea has also won support from the leader of Sweden's Pagan Council, Stig Ormsten.

"It's about bloody time 'Jul' was returned to its rightful place in February," he said.

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The chairman of the influential Christian Business Alliance, Johan Nilsson, said that while he would run naked through the streets of Stockholm if he thought it would increase tourism, he felt that moving Christmas was fundamentally wrong.

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http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1207&date=20050401

Those wacky Socialist Swedes. I'd love to see the uproar this suggestion would get in the USA.


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on edit: "Jul" or Yule was the original Pagan winter celebration before it became Christmas.