Agreed, If I could I’d vote for a hung parliament, keeps the buggers honest. I may be in a minority but I think the outcome of the last election was the best possible thing for the country.
As for “Borgen”. I enjoyed it too. I love the political shenanigans and it doesn’t hurt that the PM is easy on the eye.
Since 1901? Through the Great Depression and two world wars? Disagree. Sometimes a national government ought to be able to get stuff done without worrying about annoying a coalition partner, or two, or three.
Denmark seems not to have unduly suffered: Failed States Index: 173 of 177, Democracy: 3 of 167, Transparency: 1 of 180, etc
Imagine how they’d dominate Europe today if they didn’t always need to cobble together coalition governments!
If only they had a bunch of founding fathers!
Yeah, like we really need dominant Danes. :rolleyes:
Like a lot of people, I have a soft spot for the modern happy, mumbly, drunken socialists of Denmark, but back when their forebears were projecting power they managed to annoy people as empires do.
More seriously, I don’t think Elendil’s Heir gets it.
All normal, non-tyrannical politics is about coalition, and so it was in northern Europe even in feudal days. You’re wishing for a unifying national majority party without understanding how much that would still be a coalition; and without seeing why such a party is unnecessary in a nation that already has a strong national identity.
Gee, thanks, but I think I do. The PM in Borgen has a lot of trouble from the outset, assembling a coalition of several different parties that disagree on numerous issues into an unwieldy governing coalition. Then she has to spend a lot of time and effort holding her government together whenever a crisis arises. American presidents and British PMs, for example, have, since 1901, often been able to effectively govern without having to do that. No Danish PM has, since 1901.