Danish politics thread 2016

Drama in Danish politics! We're getting a new government! It'll still be a right-wing government, but where before there was only one party in government supported by three other parties, the Prime Minister has asked two of the smaller supporting parties to join his government. Talks begin monday. This'll be fun.

Problem is, the four parties are so far apart. There's the Libertarians, who thinks lower taxes for the rich means everything. There's the Conservatives, who has been decimated as the populists have overtaken their patriotism. There's the Populists, our Trump-lites, who is the biggest party of them all with 37 mandates. And then there's the Liberals, the ones in charge, who has had the Prime Minister post for 12 of the last 15 years, but has lost a lot of mandates due to the scandals of Lars Løkke Rasmussen. This is not an easy coalition, the parties are far apart on a lot of things, and the leading party, the Liberals, are becoming weaker and weaker.

The problem is taxes. The Libertarians has promised to take down the government if they don't get a 5% tax cut to the riches, while the Populists, who has almost three times as many mandates as the Libertarians, has promised to block such a cut. There's almost nothing to do about it, so Lars Løkke Rasmussen will try and get the Libertarians to change their minds by giving him posts in government...

He is basically buying them off with positions, that is now held by members of his own party. The real fun is that there was a second possibility: He could resign and let someone else have a fresh start, so he basically chose to fire his party-members to safe his own job. Such a great leader. He has already come close to being fired as leader of the party due to his many many scandals, and I'm guessing they all feel really happy for sticking with him now.

Wow, that was quite long. The reason I wanted to post it is to remind everyone how hard it is to govern, especially in a coalition between the rich elite and populists promising to focus on helping the little man, a coalition that is always based on deceit to begin with :) It can all come tumbling down quite easily.

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