Naked Cowboy Might Win Danish Election, But I Wouldn’t Bet On It

If you ever thought that the one thing politics was lacking was nudity there’s a candidate in the upcoming Danish election you’re just going to love…..

The infrequency with which politics and nudity combine is probably a great relief to us all. There’s nothing wrong with either one per se, of course, but given how most politicians appear when clothed the concept of them stripping off is disgusting bordering on abhorrent. For proof of this just picture, for even the briefest of seconds, the sight of the vast hoards of Republican candidates for president in the USA all naked. See? Unpleasant is an understatement. Warning: Do not attempt to bleach your mind.

Thankfully on the few occasions the two intersect it tends not to be politicians getting naked, but people who are often naked getting into politics. The number of porn stars, for instance, that have become active in politics grows each year, which sounds alarming, but since none of them are ever very successful it isn’t as bad as statistical increase might imply. Porn stars make natural politicians simply turning their experience of getting f–ked to the practical application of f–cking the rest of us.

Politics Laid bare
• Wagner strips off for poster
• Cowboy image his style
• Danish election on June 18th

Perhaps the most famous of these crossovera is Ilona Staller who back in the late eighties was better known under her ‘stage name’ Cicciolina. Elected she served out five years in the Italian parliament, which isn’t perhaps as surprising as Diana Pang who since her porn days has joined the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC) in Gansu Province, or the fact that when Stormy Daniels ran for the Louisiana Senate in the US, her campaign manager was attacked with a car bomb.

Obviously I could now make the point that this means the Chinese Communist Party is more inclusive and accepting than are the people of Louisiana, but that might well be akin to telling you snow is cold and wet, so instead we shall look across the water from the rednecks in Baton Rouge (which, lets be honest, sounds like a strip club) and glance at the next election in Europe, and if you’re Danish gambling laws of decency and propriety will save your blushes, think again.

Will Danes Elect A Cowboy For PM?

John Erik Wagner is standing for Prime Minister, it’s something he’s done before, multiple times, and his unique, almost certainly eccentric approach to the General Election in Denmark, adds one of those flecks of bright colour to what is otherwise a rather bland and grey political landscape. His tendency towards stetson hats and the sort of embroidered shirts that a 1950s country and western singer might have considered trendy just the start of his oddity.

“I know what it is like to be out of work,” said the man who has failed to get elected numerous times over the last decade, “I’m a clothes designer by trade but I don’t have any work right now. So I want a job. I want to go into government to get work. And help other people who don’t have work.” Which is a lovely sentiment except that his actual policy on the unemployment issue is to make everyone vaguely unemployed working six months on and six months off.

However he knows that it won’t be this sort of hard hitting radical solution to an urgent problem that will get him noticed in politics, he is perhaps painfully aware that his image is all important in grabbing the voter’s attention. “I really like country music and westerns – I’m inspired by the Burt Reynolds/Clint Eastwood cowboy look, like in my poster. It’s my style. And I have many women – and some men – getting in touch saying they like it, and me!”

The poster to which he refers has got him a lot of attention, and I’m sure he’s gambling news of it that has spread around the world will gain him more. Why should there be so much focus on a political advert which are typically rather dry affairs with little to make any of them notable from the others? Well quite simply John Erik Wager’s poster depicts him nude wearing a cowboy hat, a gun and holster and absolutely nothing else.

Surprising Penis On Poster

“It helps to look good if you want to be in government and people say I have a nice body, so I thought, ‘This is me, here I am.’ I wanted to get my name out there.” Which isn’t the only thing that’s out there in the picture leading many to refer to them as ‘penis posters’. “Other candidates’ posters are boring – just like passport photos – so I wanted mine to surprise people.” A goal he has doubtless achieved even if it hasn’t forwarded his chances of election very much.

ComeOn! Sportsbook offers a full range of opportunities on the election for those people who are bored of placing the odd bet on sports in Denmark and you should check out their quite reasonable odds on the more mainstream candidates like Lars Lokke Rasmussen who has done the job before and at 1.40 looks set to unseat current PM Helle Thorning Schmidt, who is getting just 2.55. Of course this being Denmark the chances of an outright winner are slim, with coalition a fact of life in the small nation.

This leaves Denmark facing the possibility that whatever happens the far right anti-immigration Danish People’s Party will gain more influence in the parliament with some pollsters putting them on alarmingly large numbers in the run up to the 18th of June election day. Whether Wager will manage to get elected is far less certain and a lot less alarming. “I’ve been trying to get elected for 10 years now, and this is my third election.”

His lack of prior success not daunting him at all he continues; “I think it’s going to be a more successful year for me.” Admitting that his optimism doesn’t equate with victory, and his eye-catching nude posters are no guarantee of a win he’s stoic about his future in politics. “I’ll do one more run, but that will be my last. I’ve worked as a municipal garbage man before. So if it doesn’t work out, I might consider going back to that.” A job in which nudity is even less welcome than in politics methinks.