Archive for January 27th, 2008
The End of CD
No, not the Compact Disc but the Danish party Centrum-Demokraterne which was founded by maverick Social Democratic MP and mayor of Gladsaxe Erhard Jakobsen in 1973 and played a central role in Danish national politics from December 1973 until the late 1990s.
The party lost its parliamentary representation in 2001 and failed to run in 2007. Now the party – which always had a very weak organisation but in the end was down to 320 members – announced that it will cease its activities on 1 February 2008.
The question is if anyone will notice.
State Elections in Germany
First impressions: A competitive election keeps turn-out relatively high (compare Hesse and Lower Saxony).
Points of note about Hesse – Roland Koch less sympathetic than Andrea Ypsilanti, Koch strong on “hard policies” (economy, crime) – Ypsilanti on “soft policies” (education, social justice). Voters had “soft policies” – especially education – as priority.
As of 19:15 nothing is really decided in Hesse – Die Linke may or may not be in the Landtag.
References: Election broadcast on Deutschlandfunk, data from Heute and Tagesschau.
links for 2008-01-27
Some Words from the Manager
No matter how the Denmark-Croatia match this afternoon ends, Danish viewers and listeners can look forward to a barrage of profound insight from commentators and analysts and ever more profound interviews with players and managers (“How did you feel when you scored the all-important goal?”, etc). So, just to wrap things up in advance we bring you the best of Gordon Strachan:
Reporter: Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?
Strachan: No, I’m just going to crumble like a wreck. I’ll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump off a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah.
There’s even more here.
By the way and hoisted from memory – Michael Manniche once answered that stupidest of questions:
Don’t know. I just kicked the ball.