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Partilederdebatten

Da er den unnagjort, årets første partilederdebatt på TV2 og NRK. Og hvem vann? Jeg synes at både Hareide og Skei Grande gjorde en god figur, Hareide var overraskede offensiv i starten. Til tross for at debatten ble kjørt av partilederne i Stortingspartiene omhandlet akkurat det som vi går til valg på, barnehager/skole, helse og omsorg som ble fokus – omtrent 8 at ti skattekroner går jo til disse lovpålagte formålene i kommuene.

Debatten ble god og intens, hvor Stortingspartiene fikk fremmet sine kjernesaker og gir en god indikasjon på debatt tonen fremover.Nå gleder jeg meg til de lokale debattene, ikke minst mandagens debatt om skolepolitikk i Bærum.
Da skal jeg fortelle om hva vi i MDG vil gjøre med skolen i årene fremover.

The Arbeiderparti debate on radical muslims

The President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) and former Labour party leader, Thorbjørn Jagland, went on a rampage on the Prime Ministers 50th birthday (can you imagine…) and attacked his own party, and particularity the Secretary General Martin Kolberg for its role in the ongoing debate on Islam, saying it is creating fear.

Jagland says the party’s leadership is trying to create a fear that is not real, in order to capture votes.
Last week outgoing Labour (Arbeiderpartiet) party secretary, Martin Kolberg said in a speech that Labour would enter into a fight with what he called “radical Islam”, but Jagland claims that Kolberg does not even know what radical Islam actually is.

- There is absolutely no threat from Islam in Norway, but it is quite possible to create a threat, Jagland said, about the latest leads from the party leadership.
Jagland also reacts to his own party trying copy the Progress Party in order to gain politically by “mixing concepts and ideas” and thereby creating fear.

This morning I was told by the news that Arbeiderpartiet had a crisis meeting yesterday, and the conclusion is “they are all standing by Kolberg”. Who could figure that one out??
And the winner is, as always in these kind of debates, Fremskrittspartiet…

Exhausted

A great INMA seminar about politics and social media earlier today. Thanks to Sindre F. Beyer, Arbeiderpartiet, Hanne Bjerknes, Høyre, Tone Liljeroth, FrP, Marius Myhrvold, ColtPR, Marius Eriksen, Sermo Consulting, Thomas Moen, 4AM, Jan Omdahl, Dagbladet for making this such a great day.
A lot of Twitter and LiveStreaming – I will post it as soon it’s available.
The photo is taken by Marius Eriksen during the debate:
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A fantastic seminar about politics and social media

Friday the 13th March (yeh, I know…), INMA together with us at Confetti and Dagbladet will invite to a huge seminar about the use of social media in politics. One of the new and exciting politicians, Hadia Tajik from Arbeiderpartiet, will tell us some of her experience in her campaign at YouTube.
The list of speakers includes some of the most recognized names in Norway in this profession, both in politics and from the marketing perspective.
You can’t miss it! Download the program Inma Nyhetsseminar 13mars