It's in Danish but the figures speak volumes. An extraordinary result for the Danske Folkeparti which has been in existence for less than 20 years though much of the original leadership was in Mogens Glistrups' Progress Party which finished second in the 1973 election so the wheel turns full circle and Venstre has been marginalised.
The Social Democrats haven't done that badly but their main allies Radikale Venstre and the Socilistiske Folkeparti have been hammered.
For all the cheering from some on here, look at the Conservatives - just six seats for a party which provided the Prime Minister and was the third largest not so long ago.
So does Kristian Dahl become Statsminister - there's no tradition the Venstre leader has to be Prime Minister of a borgerlig Government so he could.
Dahl probably won't even enter government.
Why on earth would he not want to be PM? The Liberals have had a terrible result, how could Rasmussen claim a credible mandate?
Only in Denmark could a party finish third and "win" an election.
It shouldn't even need to be said, but Denmark is not Britain and ideas of electoral fairness are very different. Continental Europeans have asked me how can David Cameron be a single-party prime minister on 36 point something per cent. So different countries have different standards of how you "win" an election.
The technical details are: O doesn't want to enter government, because it sees itself as having more influence outside, but it supports the blue bloc, which supports Rasmussen. Realistically, the extra influence is probably because many European leaders would be less favourable in dealing with a PM who says Muslims are unwelcome in his country (not David Cameron though - bizarrely). EDIT: O also fears losing blue-collar workers who are a vital part of its base by coalescing too closely with what literally translates as the "bourgeois" centre-right parties.
Surely the election result makes Dahl "leader" of the blue bloc? How can you have more influence in opposition than as PM?
As I said, it is one part European diplomacy to two parts euphemistic desire to separate oneself from the "bourgeois" mainstream centre-right.
NBC announced today that Brian Williams will not be returning to his NBC Nightly News hosting job.
He was suspended in February for several untrue statements he made about his activities in Iraq and during Hurricane Katrina. An NBC investigation uncovered several more 'mis-statements' made by Williams.
But he will be staying with the organization - he will now be on MsNBC, which is far and away the worst of the news networks, with the lousy ratings to prove it. They have travesties such as the Ed Show and Al Sharpton.
A curious fact about Winston Churchill - "Greatest Briton" that he was - is that he only won one out of the three elections that he fought as leader of the Conservative party, and even that victory was small. (A overall majority of 17 seats in 1951)
Without the Ulster Unionists there would have been no Tory majority in 1951 when ,of course, Labour won the popular vote.
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He was suspended in February for several untrue statements he made about his activities in Iraq and during Hurricane Katrina. An NBC investigation uncovered several more 'mis-statements' made by Williams.
But he will be staying with the organization - he will now be on MsNBC, which is far and away the worst of the news networks, with the lousy ratings to prove it. They have travesties such as the Ed Show and Al Sharpton.
Looks like he's where he should be at last.
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Holmwood (Mole Valley) result:
LDEM - 50.2% (+24.0)
CON - 30.7% (+2.1)
UKIP - 12.5% (-19.1)
GRN - 6.6% (-)
Changes from 2014.
Liberal Democrats hold their Holmwood seat on Mole Valley District Council and gain the second seat from UKIP.