LENE ESPERSEN (2)

No sooner do I point out Lene Espersen's current political troubles on this blog than the Danish Conservative Party, of which she is the leader, is falling over itself to apologise to the electorate for her shortcomings.

Henriette Kjaer, the party's political spokeswoman (and de facto number 2), admitted over the weekend that the cost of being since 2001 the junior partner in the right of centre government has been a loss of distinctiveness for the Conservatives. Core voters have been "let down", and nobody now knows what the party stands for. All of which will now change. True, Lene Espersen was not mentioned by name. But if the expression "the buck stops with me" is to have any meaning, then she must bear a fair amount of responsibility for the current situation.

Does this mean that this blog is beginning to have political influence in Denmark? No. But what it does show is that Lene Espersen is fighting for her political life.

Walter Blotscher