1st of May in the Copenhagen park of Fælledparken is an annual event that draws thousands. Several hundred thousands were reported to show up. An this workers' day should still be relevant with the growing dissatisfaction, rather than progression, of the red block opposition. But it has become somewhat of a cirkus - where the most red you will see comes from the procession standards and the red noses and cheeks of sunburnt onlookers.
Still, in the afternoon some of the speakers - among them Frank Jensen (S), heading for a carreer as mayor of Copenhagen, Bente Sorgenfrey from a Danish union for public employees, and Ole Sohn (F) - and later Villy Søvndal (F) and Helle Thorning-Schmidt (S) repeated the same points over and over again: The current government should initiate a much more comprehensive growth plan with investments in the public sector, should assure jobs in a situation where unemployment is on a rise, should assure a more diverse and inclusive jobmarket - and should bring down the rising inequality between different income groups.
Here's what the youth organisation of The Social Democrats (S) thought of the prospects of government under PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen (V), hinting to a news raid against him for fiddling with receipts for draught beer - as public spending: (themselves having had several draught beers under their vests)