The line of outspoken men whom the Progress Party (FrP) over the past few years has castrated or expelled has become so long that this is no longer a matter of isolated transgressions by the individuals concerned, but of a deliberate strategy to streamline and polish the party with a view to making itself palatable to the Conservative Party (Høyre) and thereby able to take power.

Within a fairly short period of time, FrP has alienated, degraded, rid itself of, tamed or trained beyond recognition Christian Tybring-Gjedde, Geir Ugland Jacobsen, Kent Andersen, Espen Teigen, Per-Willy Amundsen, Tor André Johnsen, Hårek Hansen … Jon Helgheim’s career was delayed. And Carl I. Hagen no longer has the teeth to counteract the development.

Taken in isolation, each individual case need not testify that there is something seriously wrong with the party. Amundsen perhaps should not have posted to Facebook after a few rounds of whisky. But he was undoubtedly right that “Islam has a whole gang of psychopaths who kill”. Why could he not instead have received a medal for that remark?

But when one draws a line through all the points, it is not a pretty picture that emerges. We might just as well rename FrP the Miss Party, or perhaps the Mrs Party.

From Miss Jensen to Mrs Listhaug, FrP has ended up with a gang capable of winning elections, but when there are no men with balls left in the party, the Norwegian people can simply forget about obtaining any reckoning with the nation-destroying policies that have been pursued for several decades now.

What is the use of winning elections if you cannot save the country? What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet loses his soul?

Conduct the thought experiment that it was Tybring-Gjedde and the other aforementioned figures who today were the leading persons in FrP, while Jensen and Listhaug were excluded or consigned to the doghouse. Would that not have been a party with better prerequisites for grappling with today’s problems?

Listhaug has from time to time debated with Eivind Trædal. Fiercely disagreeing, naturally, but she recognises him as a legitimate debating opponent. That is bad enough, but the greatest problem is that she and Eivind Trædal are almost certainly touchingly in agreement about what constituted the correct punishment for Hårek Hansen: dismissal from his job and exclusion from the party.

The FrP leadership is now treating its own people in the same way that the Left treated Carl I. Hagen.

One understands well enough that Listhaug will throw the Norwegians to the lions with the same ease with which she has sacrificed or castrated the alpha males in the party, persons of the type who gave her associations with National Socialism.

Matt Goodwin, author of “Suicide of a Nation” (which Document will publish) and politician for Reform UK, has said that in order to save Great Britain, the British people must rid themselves of the ruling elite.

That is perhaps more than the Norwegian people are capable of, but if large countries such as Great Britain, Germany and France take the lead, there is hope for us as well.

Goodwin would almost certainly have been excluded from FrP, but perhaps he will nevertheless be an election winner before too long lell.