Archive for June 5th, 2009
Constitution Day Speeches
This is the most complete list, as far as I can see:
The Liberal Party – Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Jens Rohde (links to pdfs)
The Social Democrats – Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The Danish People’s Party – Pia Kjærsgaard, Peter Skaarup
The Socialist Party – Villy Søvndal, Margrethe Auken (also links to other SF speeches)
The Conservative Party – Lene Espersen
The Social Liberal Party – Margrethe Vestager
The Red-Green Alliance (haven’t found any speeches on the site)
Liberal Alliance – Anders Samuelsen
The June Movement – Hanne Dahl
Ooops: Forgot the Conservatives… :-/
Transplants
Some people confuse The Simpsons with reality.
What Are We Voting For? A Political Scientist to the Rescue!
The political scientist in this case (or cage) being Henry Farrell who tells you all you need to know about the European Parliament in one blog-post. And it’s free. You even get a pint of beer thrown in for good measure.
Q: What is likely to happen in the forthcoming vote?
A: An excellent question, which should help test the predictive power of political science. In one corner: the ubiquitous Professor Hix et al predicting no very great change in the composition of the European Parliament, on the basis of analysis of multitudes of opinion polls. In the other corner, a gaggle of pundits predicting large votes against ‘ordinary’ parties, right wing extremists doing quite nicely, and general political alarum and disorder. We’ll see who is right, starting Sunday.
PS: Okay, okay. Sorry about the beer, but you have to provide selective incentives to get people to care about the EU