Why Norway is Shifting Right 

Why "insert country" is shifting to the right: Migrants

"Why young people are voting for right wing populists is not fully understood": you really don't want to mention immigration, don't you?

Norwegian here. Altough I like Støre, his government is absolutely useless. Currently we have: - Weak Krone (11kr to the Dollar. In 2014 it was 6kr.) - Record High Electricity Prices (Not only Labours fault though). - A Cabinet Filled With Corrupt Politicans & Clowns Then there are also the issues found in every Western European country I guess: - Rising Costs - Immigration - Wasteful Government Spending

insider trading is not a sign of "weak leadership" it is a sign that leadership is strongly corrupt

Imagining losing your streak at 99😂😂

"electrification of oil rigs" made me spit out my coffee hahaha

Our PM suffers from being what we Norwegians call a Tåkefyrste. He is unclear, refuses to take the hard calls cause he is terrified to dissapoint, and speaks almost like in riddles to sound impressive.

I'm Norwegian and I have to say, your pronunciation of Norwegian words aren't that bad. I appreciate that. 🙂

No mention of the fact that most norwegians don't like EU?

Trying to pretend that too much immigration isn’t one of the reasons why Norwegians are shifting right is hilarious and downright devious

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Norwegian Political Science student here Some quick add-ons to the current situation: -A major reason for Støre's unpopularity is that people feel he just doesn't do anything about current issues in Norway, such as soaring electricity prices, fighting inflation, and higher rents, he just kinda sits around and tries waiting for things to fix itself. -People generally poll more radically because both Progress Party and the left wing parties are anti-EU membership, while the two main parties have been promoting the idea of further EU integration, as well as the fact they aggressively campaign on measures they want to take to help with current issues -Erna Solberg's scandal didn't really affect Høyre's polling very much and is generally a popular politician. People blame her husband more cause he's the one who did invest in stocks against the recommendations of the Prime Minister's Office (SMK) -Under the election campaign, Støre was riding the wave that they cared more for climate change than the current government, then proceeded to cut national emissions by 0.1% in one year

Northen norwegian here (tromsø), immigration is also a huge issue up here, lack of funds for proper homes, renovation of old buildings (most apartments are still from the 50-60s) and a severe lack of housing space. just in 3 years i have had to move 3 times due to this, and nothing is being done with this. Even the people who has been tasked of finding housing for immigrants struggle a lot, and dont see why we have such poor funding.

06:30 "why young people are voting for right wing populists is not fully understood etc etc" i do not see any effort in that sentence

Can you not lower the jingle volume? Volume is unbalanced

What I've learned from this video is that there is no Viking party in Norway. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

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As a Norwegian its really cool to see you make a video about it.

Seems almost every few months that I see "[European Country] is shifting Right"

I wish we in Germany had problems like that. In Hamburgs streets Muslim immigrants in the 10 thousands openly went to the streets and demonstrated to transfer Germany to a Caliphate. Glad to see that some countries still have to deal with older problems.

Norway in RU-vid title -> welcome all Norwegians. Hei alle sammen!

As a swedish young man i can tell you why, WE STILL WANT A COUNTRY WHEN WE ARE OLD, its not really a hard concept to understand.

Nice Video: It gave a good outside look at the current situation in Norway with some interesting augmentations from Norwegian perspectives in the comments. Also it feels like Georgina is getting more and more comfortable with hosting the videos. I like having a bit of a mix of different hosts and voices for the channel while maintaining a coherent TLDR style.

As a Norwegian this was analysis so spot on! Well done!

As someone who lives in Norway, this is a very nice video to have about the current political situation here

sounds like the uk government without the resignations

The message, "Actually expect politicians to be good" seems like a dig at some other nations... 3:52

I chocked & then reverse snorted my tea when I heard about the proposal to electrify oil rigs to make them green. BTW, How badly mass immigration is handled in the Nordics also has a role in pushing people towards right wing parties. Mass immigration especially from Islamic countries without asserting assimilation & preventing ghettoisation has resulted in disasters. It's not a mystery when citizens try to vote out the politicians who preceded over it & lectured people to accept it.

Wow Norway, actually holds people in power accountable who commit insider trading unlike America.

The rightwing in Norway is not like what people are thinking about, the different wont be big.

As a non-Norwegian here, I approve of your pronunciations

You are missing a key part here.. look at the Norwegian taxes in every sector, high interest on mortgages… we pay insane high taxes here. Not to mention that our politicians that have to abdicate for wrongdoing does not face any real consequences, while ordinary people would have been sentenced for the same things.. it is called political distaste. Just look what happened to Anniken huitfeld as an example.. forced to leave the government (in shame) and then suddenly she gets the prestigious position of ambassador to the US.. politicians fail upwards in Norway…

As a norwegian, the inflation/shrinkflation here is horrible. Last week i bought myself a ice cream called 'pin-up'. But when i picked it up, it was like 2.5 times smaller and is way more expensive. And yesterday i was in this resturant called Egon. A pepperoni pizza costs frikin 300kr, which is somewhere around 30$.

Tbh the Labour Party has been unpopular for more than a year by now. Their unpopularity mainly collapsed during 2021 and 2022, since then they have remained stable but catastrophic compared to their historic results. Another big loss for the left-wing coalition was the center party which has essentially been in a constantly call since 2021 where they topped some polls but are now between 5-9%. The Green Party also doesn't consider itself as part of the left-wing block (but they are also yet to get more than the 4% threshold for levelling seats and currently only have 3 regional seats) if that changed it would be nice if someone could correct me. In 2023 the Conservatives which gained from the big losses of Labour started loosing support to the new Industry and Business Party which polled over the 4% treshold in some polls and are populist. However now it seems that in the last few months that the Progress Party has eaten all the support of the Industry and Business Party and gained it, while others have remained unaffected.

Brilliant analysis. Fun fact, in Norway we have a thing that we celebrate when we are ending upper secondary school. It is big thing here. The student have a tradition to make like a ironic "business card". Wheir they inskript , humour and jokes.. Støre . Moto was . "Its better to be rich and healthy, than poor and sick. " :-)

The first winter of Støres government we had electricity bills upwards of 1000 dollars. Food bills exploded, same with fuel. 200.000 Norwegian households had to skip a meal to make ends meet. The shelves were empty of eggs for a long time. In 2023 Our interest on loans exploded, like 500 dollars increased just in interest. What a christmas present. And the finance minister had the nerve to say that the average norwegian family earns 1 million nok after taxes and expensed, utterly delusional. So did the boss of Statskraft, she earns like 7 million nok and says she cant see the problem. Wont have much to say in a couple of years when the norwegian crown is worth less than gravel... And still, the norwegian state made more money than ever, while people suffer. Maybe this has something to do that the leader of the norwegian "labour" party being a mega millionaire? My grandfather was a member of the Norwegian parliament for 19 years. He was in the labour party, but was a real worker. He worked on train tracks, and the prime minister at the times dug ditches for a living.

I like how small shift to right is "crisis"

The politicians in Norway are so corrupted and unqualified for their positions to the point it is ridiculous. Here are some examples. Jonas Gahr Støre (Prime minister and head of the labour party) was interviewed and was asked if he have been a worker in his life. His answer was that he is a politician but his grandpa was a worker and one of his leaders also works with welding in a factory. (Yes, seriously this was his answer) Then we have Sandra Borch who was the Norwegian minister of research and higher education until she resigned recently. She was caught for plagiarism on her master's thesis. So even our minister of higher education did not pass her own masters without cheating! Then we have Erna Solberg (earlier prime minister and head of the conservative party) when she was the prime minister she got insider information on companies serveral times and her husband was buying/selling shares in the companies she had insider information on. She claims that information was not shared with her husband but it is definitely suspicious behaviour. The leader of the Red Party (Rødt) Bjørnar Moxnes was caught stealing sunglasses at the airport in 2023 then later that same year he was caught for stealing food from the store 5 times in less than 1 month. He resigned after the incident. I could go on and on and on all day long but this is what our beloved leaders have been upto recently. Edit: Some of this information is in the video, I did write this before I watched the video.

A Norwegian with another perspective here. The Labour party has also become a white collar party and lost most of it's traditional blue collar roots outside of rhetoric. They have trended towards the right for the past 30-40 years, and in so lost a lot of their blue collar support, some of which has gone to the political right side parties for social policy reasons rather than economic. The party more closely in line with what labor traditionally championed is the SV socialistic left party, but they hold some internally conflicting positions on urbanization for climate reasons vs economic left and social safety net policy reasons, leading to them loosing out on some support in blue collar rural workers who again often vote against their economic self-interest for social populist positions of the "progress" party (Fremskrittspartiet). And Norway still has a large rural population where blue collar is dominant. Then there's the "Left" (Venstre) party that has taken a lot of the neo-liberal vote from the labor party (even though that was what Labor was going for 20 years ago), as while their name is "Left", their economics is solidly white collar professional and business friendly neo-liberal with socially progressive policies. The labor party got eaten from 2-3 directions because they lost their hard union and blue collar worker tie-in, and then the left lost a lot of the rural vote on social grounds + EU membership, while the "Left" party went right economically to gain a larger urban affluent voter block that still like to consider themselves left leaning. Also, hardly any politician in the labor party has ever held a blue collar job, while 40+ years ago most of them had that and came up through blue collar union work. Politics don't make sense on a 1-dimensional left-right scale, you really want to use spider-charts with 5+ dimensions when comparing political parties. Market vs planned economics, authoritarian vs libretarian, socially concervative vs progressive, urban vs rural, nationalist vs international, pacifist vs militaristic, secular vs religious, to name a few prime candidates.

It's a small thing, but I just wanted to say that I'm grateful for you saying 'Gen Zed' instead of 'Gen Zee'. It's a frequent annoyance for me elsewhere in the media and I was pleasantly surprised to hear it finally said the British way by somebody. Kudos, TLDR

I'm honestly impressed at the pronunciations here.

Makes sense, happens time and time again in parliamentary systems. When a party enjoys a long period of popularity, they get complacent every single time. The population begins shifting to the other party, rinse and repeat.

the gap between norways left and right parties are very small compared to other countries though idk

Is it really a shift to the right? Or simply the rejection of a project which looked to scrap much of the past and replace it politics, ideologies and theocracies that don’t meet the expectations of reality ?

3:15 You’re forgetting the most obvious, and important reason, Acer and the EU! Just after Store got elected Norway finished the third major electricity cable to the EU, the one to Great Britain. Not long after we accepted the last Acer agreement, and our electricity became just as costly as in the rest of EU, plus’s the hike abuse of the war in Ukraine and what that did to the price. Store and the leadership in Labor as well as the house trained journalists will refute this suggestion, violently, but it is the main, if not the only reason.

Norway: among the richest happiest most educated most advanced most developed countries Also norwegians

TL;DR on the TLDR affecting virtually all Western, industrialized nations at the moment: Inflation and immigration.

The divide between left and right is not as basic as it is elsewhere. AP and høyre are basically the same except for some bullet points. Lets just forget that the "right" has two periods end to end in norway before the current government. Don't push your own political systems on ours. They are not the same.

Really appreciate the well informed and non biased content. This is indeed a tumultuous time for the Norwegian Government for many reasons. I believe one of the bigger reasons for the Labour Party’s decrease in popularity origins from their choice of words for the previous elections “For vanlige folk” - “For the common people. Not the easiest motto when you face inflation, increasing food prices and living costs. The increase of unstable energy prices frustrate many Norwegians as we produce so much energy ourselves through oil and gas fields in the ocean and water craftworks in our rivers which there are plenty. We are self sufficient producers but still get slammed by the unstable energy market which does not make much sense. Then you have all the many cabinet scandals happening repeatedly by the people we expect to be the “best of us” as they are indeed deciding our laws and system, if they can not abide to the rules, then why should the ordinary guy? This hurts the loyalty of many Norwegians as they expect better and already have a high tax rate sponsoring the welfare system, and if that trust is being misused they naturally get disappointed. About the younger generation going more right wing I think its a tendency due to the polarisation of these times with the left side of politics addressing the usual topics of climate change, pro immigration, feminism and LGBTQ , however not really addressing concerns and problems for many young men, which there are a plenty in Norway. The right wing and especially the Progress Party have specifically reached out to this group, and then it is not so surprising that the party that takes your concerns seriously gets more votes. Best wishes and a good day to all from a Norwegian in Germany

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The failure of dealing with the electricity sales to other European nations is understated here. it is a hugely important issue for Norwegians, and Støre has done nothing about it. the short answer for why is that it massively screws up our internal energy markets, and this is important given how important electricity prices are for both households and industry. that is undoubtedly a big part of Labour's decline. not that Høyre would do much more about it, but they benefit on this issue from not being in office at the moment.

Grating sound of the jingle

I miss when Socialist parties were able to actually appeal to the common people

must be nice to have these issues be the biggest thing going on

I question if you guys do any audio processing after recording, hire a sound engineer will do you magic

00:06 Tåkefyrsten( in which translates to Duke Fog ) as a popular nickname does not make the task simple. That said the 2 biggest parties in Norway appears to have the same common goal, hand off of the country's souvereignity.

The whole europe is shifting towards right.

Imagine being norwegian and considering plagiarisma a scandal for a government. I mean, here in portugal we had a minister taking advantage of the secret services to threat a civilian that had in his posession a work computer information that could make the minister look bad in TAP's massive scandal. That minister was not fired.

Norwegian here, people are shifting away from the labour party because the labour party isn't for the labourers anymore. They are too busy buddying up to the EU. Power is also up on average 600% compared to it's average price the last 15 years. Al because of the power cables to the EU.

Norwegians have made incredible decisions on energy and investments since the 60s .. surprised they are not studied more

Though all of these factors probably play a role, the major reason is probably the economic situation where they had to contend with massive inflation rise post-covid and the following interest increases at the same time as electricity prices exploded due to the war in Ukraine. A struggling economy is extra difficult to handle politically in Norway as there is plenty of money available, but which we ideally should not use in order to avoid Dutch Disease, inflation and an even bigger state (+ that it should be saved to deal with the coming demographic collapse Norway like most western countries will face in the cominc decades). It is a very difficult thing to communicate that there is money, but that we shouldn't use it, especially when the prime minister is famous for being quite vague, indecisive and a poor communicator.

There's a lot of good journalism going on in Norway atm. Labour and Senterpartiet are just unfortunate to be ruling when it is happening. The former prime minister and current leader of the Conservative Party just went through a huge scandal where her husband had been trading companies she had been giving contracts to for more than ten years. But she's not in power now, so not much happened to her. Jonas Gahr Støre though, has been a surprisingly weak leader of both the Labour party and as a prime minister. He almost had a kind of rock star status when he was foreign minister. He filled that position very well. But now, whenever something happens. When everyone is looking to the prime minister for leadership. Mr. Støre is sitting there with us, waiting. I can't remember a single time when he cut through the noise and put things straight. He just waits until everyone else is screaming at him about what should be done. Then, after a bit... he acknowledges that gravity exists and orders the shit that hit the fan to fall down and form a puddle. The problem going forward for Labour is that most of the strong candidates to succeed him have been knocked out by some sort of scandal or just disillusionment. I've barely heard of half the people that are supposedly clawing their way to the top at the moment. They even tried to hunt down a retired fishery minister from her cabin up on the barren steppes of Northern Norway to get her back in the game. Apparently she hadn't done much wrong up there. But she wisely chose to stay retired. It's a bit of a mess, but a Norwegian mess. People will shake their heads and make serious faces while trying to sit still enough for the storm to pass. And with the next election over a year away and every scandal being interrupted by another scandal, who knows where we'll be by then?

The grop in the Krone has more to do with the interest rate differential between Norges Bank, FED and ECB not so much Støres leadership.

Several inaccuracies here. The fact is that after a historic left wave in 2021, there is a regression to the mean going on. It"s nearly 50/50. You left out 2 left wing parties in the balance: MDG, and R.

I cannot wait for this government to go...

6:28 probably has something to do with them being more exposed to the issues that mass immigration brings. Older people can usually afford to live in more expensive areas that have less social issues. Guessing most work places have fewer immigrants than the schools.

I really have no faith in neither the current government or any of the alternatives.

Trygg styring does not mean safe steering in this context. It means safe governance.

Voted left in 21, will vote right in 25

No Norway (and many other countries) aren't "shifting to the right". What is happening is the political classes in many western nations are shifting to the left. That means what were centre-left parties are shifting towards the extreme left, centrist parties are becoming centre left and centre right parties are becoming centrist if not centre-left themselves. And harder right parties are shifting to what would once be called the centre right because politics, much like nature, abhors a vacuum. This is only happening within the political class. Amongst civilians the balance of viewpoints remains pretty much the same, they just don't see their "traditional" parties representing them any more. Centre left voters don't see "their" parties representing centre-left views any more. Centrists don't see "their" parties representing centrist views and conservatives cannot recognise what are laughingly called "conservative" parties. All of them are taking a step to the right in party names because the parties have all taken a step to the left.

I really like the subtle combination of tumbnail and title letting everybody know moving right is bad.

The "cabinet scandals" in Norway are blown out of proportion. In other countries politicians having plagiarized 5-10 years ago would simply be ignored or swept under the rug, however Norwegians hold their politicians to the same level of accountability as themselves and thus they are forced to step down.

TLDR EU mostly focuses on Partisans and polarity. can you bring up new topics in EU that are otherwise.

Norway is one of the most underrated countries ngl

For many voters there has also been the growing contentious issue of immigration. Norway has been better than other European countries at integrating migrants into the country, but we have still taken in larger and larger groups of refugees ever since 2001. Now with the Israel and Palestine conflict the labour party recently announced that they would take in more refugees than EVER before. Many people, especially younger people are getting sick and tired of having to "flip the bill" by taking in refugees from wars on the other side of the world we had nothing to do with and in many cases we get spit in our face for our kindness since many of them don't respect our culture. Yet despite a large majority of people wanting stricter immigration policies they instead get looser than ever before. We have seen what happens in countries like France and Sweden when governments take in large swaths of migrants without thinking of the consequences or not integrating them correctly and we don't want that to happen here. This is not exclusive to Norway since it is a lot worse in other European countries, it is happening across Europe and after 20+ years people have run out of sympathy for people that don't respect them.

Truly refreshing to witness this from a Dutch standpoint. It's a simple narrative of a left-leaning bloc making way for a right-leaning one. Remarkably, the Netherlands hasn't seen a left government since the 70s. Instead, the prevailing conflict revolves around the right and extreme right factions. The public discourse seems to have spiraled beyond reason, posing a dire threat to democracy itself.

This is so sad to me and I'm not even European.

One does not simply screw over the people and stay in power.

when you had to think of a new title just to excuse the left and right in 💀

some of the writing felt extremely sloppy at the start and "shifting to the right". felt like it was being repeated every 2 secs.

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There is a need for a Nordic version of Javeir Milei

We are waiting for a video on Croatia!!!

The big problem with Norway’s current govt is its Statsminister is a multimillionaire from one of Norways wealthiest families, he has no idea how people actually live, ironically he’s also leader of Norways Labour Party. The next issue is way too much immigration from the wrong countries and too many refugees. Norway needs to follow the Danish refugee model, where when the country they lived in is now safe they are returned home, that’s how refugee systems should work, it should not be refuge for life.

Why is 'shifting right' presented as a crisis?

You always assume all young voters are pro-European, left wing liberals and socialists that agree with you. Perhaps they're just more able to think for themselves.

We're not 'shifting right', left and right take turns now every 4 years or so.

Lacking from your analysis is the fact that as a ruling party for much of the post-war era, Labour is _the_ centist party in Norway. There's more of an anti establishment (anti-EU, anti-globalism, anti-immigration, anti-internationalist) sentiment, which both the far left and far right have benefited from.

The funny thing is Støre, like Scholz is already pretty conservative for his oarty, but has made nobody happy

electrified oil rig, what's nexts wind powered oil rigs? I can't understand how some people can get so arrogant, thinking all of us are idiots.

"I have full trust in my government and in *said person in a middle of a scandal*" - Jonas Gahr Støre

"Why Norway is shifting right" Thumbnail: *Norway's political *Crisis**

I am from Norway!!!

0:24 Actually, she looks more like the lower education minister to me.

An important aspect of the rightwards shift is that the polling doesn't necessarily show the entire picture at first glance. Polling shows that of the Labour Party's 2021 voters around half intend to vote for them again. Of the remaining half around 2/5 intends to vote for a right-wing party and 1/5 for one of the radical left parties. The remaining 2/5s however, are unsure if they will bother to vote at all (Poll of Polls). This disappointed and demobilized group of Labour voters are not easy to spot in the polling because it shows who people intend to vote for. Despite there being a very clear increase the right-wing, I think it is smaller than it might appear and a substantial part of the reason for the government's meager support is that it disappointed many of its supporters for various reasons.

Arbeiderpartiet, isn't a center left, it's just center. It has shifted right these last 10 years

It's absolutely clear why young people, especially men are voting right wing.If you're claiming it's not understood then you're just trying to feign ignorance for whatever reason.

“Something ture is similar in Norway” 😂

This title is sort of missleading since what we norwegians consider right wing is stil way more solidaric and socialistic then the left wing in USA.

We need center politics, Høyre for economics, FRP for infrastructure and Venstre for social ministries.