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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 28, 2015 17:24:15 GMT
I'm in DK next week so I will see if I can find any leaflets/take some snaps of posters. With regards to the LA question- Sibboleth is spot on, Amager is being covered in yuppie flats. When I first went over in 2001, it was just flatland and nothingness. Tarnby and Orestad in particular are bizarre, and Orestad looks like a weird cross between Alphaville and a giant garden centre. The "8 House" is worth looking up, truly an odd building filled with hipsters. The LA success up there does seem odd but maybe its libertarian message, which is quite rare in Danish politics, struck a chord in pioneer territory. 1. Rasmussen's government looks shaky and illegitimate to say the least. 2. The Conservatives continue to decline. 3. The Social Liberals and Socialist People's Party had an utter disaster. If the Alternative consolidate, I can see them and the Red-Green Alliance stealing their turf further in coming elections. 4. Thorning-Schmidt had a good election, undermined by the collapse of her coalition parties. The SDs had a very creditable result, and I'm surprised we've not got a SD minority government. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 7, 2015 14:34:48 GMT
I am now in Aarhus. A curious spot- the election posters are still up, and they are also on the platforms at railway stations.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jul 7, 2015 14:45:23 GMT
In the middle of the street?
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 7, 2015 17:01:31 GMT
In the middle of the street? I've been waiting years to make that joke damn you Arthur Figgis . |
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Post by Old Fashioned Leftie on Jul 23, 2015 14:46:08 GMT
In the middle of our street?
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Post by Khunanup on Jul 23, 2015 15:35:06 GMT
Would help us stupid folk if you explained it. Aarhus sounds somewhat like Our House... |
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Post by Andrew_S on Jul 27, 2015 1:15:54 GMT
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Post by greatkingrat on Jul 27, 2015 21:13:29 GMT
In the middle of the street? It's very, very, very fine. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 27, 2015 21:58:17 GMT
It's utterly ridiculous. But Rasmussen caught them on the hop. Neither the DPP or Social Democrats will want to bring it down too early. |
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Post by neilm on Aug 4, 2015 8:16:15 GMT
In my tendency to overthink things, I have concluded that the song Our House possibly alludes to the mother dying of cancer. It is fascinating how songs are interpreted. A favourite of mine is 'On A Bus to St Cloud', which I interpreted very differently to what Gretchen Peters meant. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Aug 4, 2015 14:10:13 GMT
I think that new government could be more stable than people expect - IIRC Venstre formed a single party minority government in the 1970s with something like 25 seats! The Danish Conservative Party has also tended to get Prime Ministerial office on such numbers. But it's not a good thing all round. Why a Venstre minority but not a Social Democratic one? Lacks legitimacy and will be punished next time out. |
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Post by maxque on Aug 4, 2015 14:48:45 GMT
I think that new government could be more stable than people expect - IIRC Venstre formed a single party minority government in the 1970s with something like 25 seats! The Danish Conservative Party has also tended to get Prime Ministerial office on such numbers. But it's not a good thing all round. Why a Venstre minority but not a Social Democratic one? Lacks legitimacy and will be punished next time out. Because DPP supports Venstre and not Social Democrats. Procedural votes in parliament are clearly showing a red bloc and a blue bloc (of which DPP is part). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 22:06:48 GMT
Parties are ordered on the ballot by official letter rather than by name. The letters come from the 1943 election (when Denmark was under Nazi military occupation: the four democratic parties were labeled as A, B, C and D and won a landslide) and have stuck. The order actually comes from the first time party letters were used for municipal elections in 1909 and reflected the parties size in the Citizen Representation (City Council) in Copenhagen. Only three parties were represented: the Social Democrats, the Social Liberals (Radikale Venstre) and the Right (which became the Conservative Peoples Party in 1915/16) and they got A, B and C. The Liberals (Venstre) were a farmers party and had no seats in Copenhagen, but got D when they later entered, while the Georgist Justice Party subsequently got E. The Communists got a single seat in 1933 and should then in principle have gotten F, but the ruling Social Democrats thought this was too easily associated with both "folk" (people) and "fagforening" (trade union) and decided they had to stick to their previous K for kommunist instead in order not to give the bastards any advantage, however small. When national party letters were first used in the municipal elections in 1937 the Social Democratic/Social Liberal government decided to use the Copenhagen model, which had the advantage of putting them first on the ballot (despite the Social Liberals only being the #4 party). While the largest opposition party Venstre had to settle for D (changed to V in 1971 to fit the standard shorthand for the party). The municipal system was then used in national elections from 1943 onwards. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 0:15:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2016 3:40:53 GMT
Poll about whether the government puts too much or too little emphasis on environmental concerns in its policies:
Far too much 1%
Too much 2%
Suitable 31%
Too little 33%
Far too little 22%
Dunno 11%
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2016 3:37:09 GMT
New thorough study of different groups participation in the election - its in Danish, but thought I would post it anyway (some stats should be easy to read). www.altinget.dk/misc/Bhatti_et_al._2016_FT-valgdeltagelse_og_v_lgere__671091_.pdfAge:  Gender M/F  Danes/immigrants/descendants:  Region of origin DK, "Old EU", "New EU" (post-2007), Non_Eu Nordic (Norway/Iceland/Faroes/Greenland), Other Western countries, Non-Western countries  Income:  Education: Elementary school, High School, Vocational training, Short & medium tertiary (2-4 years), Long tertiary (5+ years)  |
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