When I was a child and approaching my teenage years, I was very enthusiastic about a TV series called “V”. We were not accustomed to much in those days; we had only three television channels: NRK as well as the Swedish state channels SVT1 and SVT2. NRK was regarded as boring. The best programmes were shown on Swedish TV, and that also applied to “V”.

“V” is a science fiction story about extraterrestrial beings who land on Earth and present themselves as friends. They look like us and have advanced technology that they wish to share with humanity. Many people buy the message. But some see behind the façade and discover that the visitors are not who they claim to be. The visitors have a hidden agenda. A resistance movement is formed.

The extraterrestrials (called “visitors”, hence the name “V”) naturally cracked down hard on the humans’ resistance struggle. The pet project of one of their scientists was to capture the leaders of the resistance movement and convert them. This was done in a kind of mental torture chamber where the resistance fighters’ defence mechanisms were broken down and their weaknesses and traumas exposed. A successful conversion ended with them forgetting everything about resistance struggle and instead devoting themselves to cooperating with the extraterrestrials, that is, brainwashing.

I remember Jens Stoltenberg’s time as Prime Minister until 2013 well. He made some blunders, the most serious of which – in my opinion – is the health trust model, with which we are still struggling today, and which has probably harmed both patients and health workers. Beyond this, he did not differ notably from other politicians at the time. They all made mistakes. They all promised things they did not keep. But by and large they worked for Norway and Norwegians. Norway was also in a continuous economic upswing until 2013, when real wage growth increased every year (source “Landet som ble for rikt”). Jens Stoltenberg therefore did much that was right. There was no reason to fear or hate him.

When he suddenly returned in the spring of 2025, I was therefore more puzzled than sceptical. I quickly understood that he was a strong card for Ap. I also realised that Ap was desperate after extremely poor opinion polls and that Stoltenberg had been brought in to save the unpopular party. I thought it was a transparent and desperate move, but I remained open to the possibility that things might now perhaps improve for most people.

But it soon became clear that the policy did not change even though Stoltenberg made a comeback. Ap pursued the same anti-people line. Stoltenberg was not the mitigating feature that I believe many had hoped for and counted on. He became no “bridge” between the people and the rest of Ap. I therefore became exasperated when I observed the effect his entry had on the opinion polls. From hovering between 15 and 18 per cent, Ap jumped to 30 per cent, and this only a few months before the election. Were people really so easily bought?

The election result ended at 28 per cent for Ap. Thus not quite at the level of the best opinion polls, but a huge leap from the lowest polls, and it secured them four new years in government. Now they could let the mask fall. And they did so thoroughly.

Only six months after the election, Stoltenberg has thoroughly shown what he stands for today. He pushes for tax and duty increases wherever he can. Many increases have been adopted and implemented, with a highly noticeable effect on household finances. When fuel prices soared as a consequence of the war against the clerical regime in Iran, the Storting finally put its foot down, and Ap suffered a well-deserved defeat after already having burdened people’s private finances to breaking point. That was presumably what the Storting finally understood: that now it could go no further.

Afterwards, Stoltenberg has behaved like a sulky child who was stopped on a wild tricycle ride towards grandmother’s hip and did not get his way. He threatens that the duty reduction is unlawful.

But as the critics quite rightly point out: this is twaddle. Why, then, are not all the duty increases also unlawful? The critics also point out that Ap, with Stoltenberg’s threats, exposes itself. They have now surrendered so much Norwegian sovereignty to supranational authorities that the Norwegian Storting cannot even adopt a duty reduction without asking foreigners for permission. Stoltenberg ought to have understood that his offended behaviour works to Ap’s disadvantage. In the end, Stoltenberg reveals how little concerned he is with Norwegians’ welfare and well-being, in favour of satisfying non-Norwegian authorities.

Now he is also denying the public access to his communication with ESA about the duty cut. Why is he doing that? Does the dialogue reveal where his loyalty lies?

Behind what has been said, a sensation appears. Stoltenberg is no longer the same man he was when he left the office of Prime Minister (and Norway) in 2013. His protests are a signal, not to us, but to someone else whom he has promised to satisfy: “look here, I am doing as you have asked me, but I am being sabotaged by the Storting”. And behind his actions, a revelation.

He is not working for Norwegians.

What has he done in the years between 2013 and 2025? We know that he has been Secretary General of NATO, but do we really know much more? Who is the man Stoltenberg today? What were his movements over a long period of twelve years? With whom has he established contacts? Who has influenced him while he was Secretary General of NATO? Who has promised him gold and green forests in exchange for treason against Norway?

Is it the WEF? The UN? The EU?

Has Stoltenberg become radicalised?

The sensation brings me back to the TV series “V”, when the resistance leaders returned to Earth brainwashed, with a different agenda. They pretended nothing had happened, but those closest to them no longer recognised them. The way they spoke and gestures that reflected their personality had changed. Small things that perhaps only those very closest saw.

Personally, I am no longer in doubt. Stoltenberg has an agenda that he did not have before, and which is not communicated directly. It is nevertheless revealed through action, and is otherwise in tune with the rest of the Ap apparatus anno 2026.

He is therefore harmful to Norway, like the rest of Ap, and the goal must be to have him and the entire government removed as quickly as possible. At the pace at which they are lowering the standard of living for “ordinary people”, they simply cannot remain in office until the end of their term. 2029 is too far away. There will be nothing left of us by then.

Let us hope that the defeat in the fuel-price case was only the first of many, that the Storting has awakened, and that it will culminate in the government’s resignation, the sooner the better.

Norwegians’ welfare depends on it.