Men who go their own way

Jan Bøhler. According to Sandberg. Geir Lippestad. Erik Solheim. After a lifetime at their party, they leave with a bang. What happened to loyalty in Norwegian politics?

Jan Bohler He has 15 years at the Storting behind him. You have our Party Secretary and Organizational Secretary in the Oslo Labor Party, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rune Gerhardsen Head of Oslo City Council Secretary and much more.

The last time you had a job outside the labor system was once in the 1980s.

But this summer They told him he could be challenged in the Storting nomination, and then he was thanked. On Thursday morning the surprise message arrived: He announced the transfer to the Center Party.

It is thanks to a party that has given him power and positions for more than three decades.

Thorbjørn Berntsen, Honorary member of the Groruddalen Labor Party, he told Dagbladet: “Now he has done too many arms lifts in pine trees. It almost looks like he slipped on the roof and hit himself.”

Former owner this week He gave Geir Lippestad the message that enough was enough: he didn’t get what he wanted in the Labor Party, and then he could easily start the Party Sentrum.

It has both our Oslo City Council and a board member of the Social Democratic think tank Agenda.

By Sandberg He got twenty years in the Storting, twelve as vice president and almost three as minister of the Progress Party. Then most of it went to the ball for him.

“I’ve done lots of back and forth reviews. Should I have fun with Bahareh and do bar, reality show, travel here and there and have fun? Or should I make the decision to re-engage in Norwegian politics? »He told VG.

Did not say. Now he is active in the Liberals.

Erik Solheim left SV and joined MDG after being the leader of our party for ten years. Former SV Deputy Director Øystein Djupedal went to the Labor Party.

And that’s how we were able to move on. Even Lars Sponheim has resigned from the Liberal Party, but he should at least have to not close the door when leaving.

These are men who have received high positions of trust from their parties. Thank you is to thank for yourself.

At the moment it is worse in the Labor Party. It seems that the culture of loyalty in the party is about to erode completely. If you don’t get the position that suits your own personal ambitions, you can go your own way.

Stand or sitting on the board of the home team is like for other people.

Now there is a battle for third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth place on the Labor Party’s list in Hordaland. It is hard to believe that it is only about what the candidates believe is best for the party.

Well so important it’s the best for them.

This can apply to both women and men, of course. The workers also go to the PR agency, next to the employer and to the business interests that Labor is fighting.

However, it seems that it is first of all the men who have this throne who sign with brask and bram.

They stay in the game as long as there are professional opportunities there. Then they can jump.

For the infantrymen in Ap and second part are pure provocations. In election campaign after election campaign, the rank and file in Groruddalen have stood up and knocked on doors to help Jan Bøhler enter the Storting. Then he just ran away.

It is not exactly the image of the “grassroots man” that is characterized by such behavior.

Many social democrats now he is angry with Bøhler, as SV-arar has been angry with his defectors.

At the same time They must ask themselves what is it about the party culture that makes this type of shopping possible. It’s probably about several things, but at least this:

Today it is difficult to see what is the unifying project in the Labor Party. And for decades, a party culture has been fostered in which one’s ambitions have been allowed to dominate.

In other words: There is little indication that this is the latest defector from the Labor Party.