In a populist move to gather political points among those naive enough to support the wave of asylum seekers (and perhaps to deliberately annoy his coalition partner, the Finns Party), our Prime Minister Juha Sipilä (Centre Party) has decided to offer his own house in Kempele, Northern Finland, as an accomodation for circa 20 asylum seekers.
Sipilä has quietly backed away from this proposal, saying that accomodating asylum seekers in the house would not be feasible after all. The original offer was widely reported in the Arabic speaking media and undoubtedly had an effect on several asylum seekers who were deciding between traveling to Finland or Sweden/Germany. Sipilä's words, designed to get him a "tolerant" reputation, thus added several thousands to the number of asylum seekers coming to Finland (and thus adding millions of euros in government spending), and in the end he didn't even keep his word. What a leader.