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[nineveh_uk]

Danish drama Borgen is awesome. Just as I was finally working out some of the political parties (the BBC needs to publish a quick guide to fake Danish political parties) there was a Dead Turk situation!

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[antisoppist]

Definitely awesome, seeing as I am still awake. I have been googling fake Danish political parties in Danish but it is very hard to do so without seeing spoilers for series 2.

[nineveh_uk]

I am going with the Liberals = Venstre*, Labour = Social Democrats, and the Moderates equal some bunch in the middle of unknown provenance with no actual policies so far other than being nice (but who might be more strongly read as an actual party by people who actually knew about it all). Greens and Solidarity seem to do what it says on the tin, as does the Freedom Party, who seem to be the old-fashioned version of The Killing's Folkeparti which is obviously Dansk Folkeparti. I note with interest, but a certain amount (i.e. almost total) ignorance vis a vis its significance for her relationship to the political establishment that our heroine is not a monarchist, but I assume there's a certain amount of outsider status indicated. But I wish someone who was Danish would explain the in-jokes!

Oh, and The Killing's Troels Hartmann was a Moderate as well.

*Well do I remember the class on "where Danish political parties sit on the political spectrum" and an American friend asking, in understandable perplexity from her POV, "But if the Liberals are right-wing, then who is on the left?".

[nineveh_uk]

Also, it would really have helped if the Liberal and Labour leaders didn't look quite similar. I kept forgetting which party the slimy one who looked vaguely like Richard E Grant belonged to.

[antisoppist]

Oh and I also had him in my head as "the one who looked like Richard E Grant"

[nineveh_uk]

There was also the one who looked like Billie Piper, and the one who looked like Ricky Tomlinson.

[antisoppist]

The Danish wikipedia site is very informative once you realise their list runs from left to right, see my post, which I half wrote last night. I am surprised that they put the Freedom Party far right and originally thought their leader was head of some kind of rural pensioners party, though possibly the categories overlap. I was very confused by equating Moderate to the Swedish Conservatives and then finding that she was pro jobs for asylum seekers. Sweden has a party called "Folkpartiet Liberalerna" which doesn't help. I really don't know enough about Denmark.

[nineveh_uk]

I think I saw the Freedom Party as the Jutland farmers/fishermen/inner mission splitters from the older Conservative party, and thus distinct from the new populist rightist parties.

BTW, don't read the Guardian blog comments, as due to overlapping casting it is full of spoilers for the end of series 2 of The Killing.

[profshallowness.livejournal.com]

Hi, here via LJ's search facility! You're right of course, although in Borgen's case, they did set up that Ole had heart problems.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think I missed that!