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ON EVERY EDGE: Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre and Conservative leader Erna Solberg. Photo: Frode Hansen
Over the course of 20 years, people have become more positive about government interference and more negative about privatization. – Conservatives don’t take this seriously, says Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre.
– It is a dramatic change that has occurred in 20 years. It has major consequences and the game has turned halfway completely, says John Spilling in Ipsos to VG.
In 2001, 69 percent fully or partially agreed that there was too much state interference and regulation in today’s society. Today, the number has been cut almost in half, while the opposition has risen from 25 to 56 percent.
“Besides the change in belief in God, this is perhaps the biggest megatrend that we can track in the last 20 years,” says Spilling.
Figures come from Norwegian Monitor survey. Every two years since 1985, Ipsos has asked 3,800 Norwegians some 3,000 questions to mark.
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Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre believes Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) is out of step with the people.
– A year before the elections, we see that the central theme of the conservatives is to allow private people to enter hospitals and the elderly. The Labor Party warns against this, it is a recipe for the health care of weakened joints and the care of the elderly and a shortcut to the dichotomy in Welfare Norway, he tells VG.
Støre believes that conservatives have the ideological belief that there is no difference between welfare services and other services.
– Norwegians see the difference, he says.
He admits that these are new beats for the Labor Party.
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– There is a policy change with us. We state very clearly that basic welfare services, such as child welfare, hospitals and care for the elderly, are not a market.
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– It should be a primary responsibility for public and non-profit organizations that have profit and profit as separate objectives for operations. It must work efficiently and we must use money with great responsibility.
– Conservatives say they want to preserve a society with small differences. But this is a society that has growing differences. Conservatives don’t take this seriously.
– Dramatic change
The great opposition to state interference and regulation in society has disappeared, Spilling believes.
– This is a megatrend that will probably surprise a lot of people. This is because the changes have been smooth and gentle from year to year, but for such a long period of time that many have simply not noticed the dramatic change in attitudes that has actually taken place, he tells VG.
Attitudes towards public or private welfare are one of the biggest differences between the traditional blocs of Norwegian politics, that is, the right and the left.
– It is interesting to see that the change in attitude has continued and continues regardless of who has been in power in the government, says Spilling.
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Erna Solberg refers to Minister of Health Bent Høie, who responds to VG by email:
– It is good that there has been less regulation and interference from the government in recent years and that Norwegians have confidence that their tax money is used well and efficiently, he writes.
– Conservatives see no contradictions between a good offer from public and private actors. We believe that people benefit from the fact that there is a combination of both.
He believes that one explanation for the fact that fewer people see the need for private welfare services is that the conservative government has worked to get a better offer from the public sector and that health care queues have been shortened.
