take that, Harry Lime

I haven’t been to Strange Maps in a while, which is silly of me because there’s usually something rewarding there. Swiss Imperialism, for instance: 

Ideally, he would like to see Switzerland snatch the Land Vorarlberg from Austria; the province Aosta, Varese, Como and Bolzano (‘Bosen’ in German) from Italy; the départments Jura, Ain, Savoie and Haute-Savoie and the région of Alsace (‘Elsass’ in German) from France. The single biggest chunk would be the German Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, bringing in almost 11 million new Swiss citizens. If all went according to the Mr Baettig’s plan, the new, Greater Switzerland would count around 25 million inhabitants. 

When they think of us, they will no longer think of cuckoo clocks. Take that, Mr Lime! That proposal’s from the SVP, the outfit that brought you the minaret ban. Not just nasty but nuts, it seems. Mind you, there’s quite a bit of it about: Savoyards still griping about the rigged plebiscite of 1860, insalubrious Insurbrian revivalists and whatnot.

Comments

[Alex]

Interestingly, one of the groupuscules in that post has very obviously copied the Northern League's logo.

[Phil]

Not sure - I think that format (symbol on white above slogan on colours) is pretty generic in Italy.

[Peter L]

Clearly you don't get Swiss humour