Danish Election!

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Any polls?

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Any chance of an upset?

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Any chance of an upset?

Perhaps. The last election was very radical (Venstre becomming the largest party, DF doubbleling) but the PM is smooth and it looks like the Socialdemocrats will run a clean campaign
- I'm not sure that that is the clever thing. 3 MP's has left Venstre since 2001. One because he is on trial for embesselment and irregularities in Farum, the city where he was mayor; one for sexually harassing his secretary; and the last for having sex with a minor.
The former enviromental minister donated large amounts of money to his old school and his constituency. The former Tax minister failed to do anything about a tax hole. That cost the government 2-3 billion DK kroner. The current minister of finances has bought several farms but failed to live there and tried to limit the access to a public trail on his lands. Both quite illegal things.

If that sort of stuff happend over here, Venstre would be dead in the water

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Good stuff Jens :-)

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As for the unemployment figures, that's due to a change in reckoning standards...and people know that.

Unusually for a change in calculating unemployment figures (oh, btw there's a thread on that in the international general politics thingy. You are needed) it's actually added *more* people to the list of unemployed... the complete opposite of what the Tories did over here in the '80's...

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It wasn't supposed to turn out that way...it seems the fools who did the math really believed that a slightly stricter means test
a) would catch hold of lots of people
b) wouldn't simply be lied in

Why on earth would they think that?

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I understand why now...