Nothing that the socialists do are a good thing, perhaps this should serve as a warning.

Social Democrats leader Mette Frederiksen. Photo Thomas Lekfeldt/Scanpix

Published: 29 Jan 2016 13:53 GMT+01:00

A Megafon poll showed that the Social Democrats plummeted seven percentage points, going from 26.3 percent support in November to just 19.3 percent this week.

The drop was so significant that Megafon conducted an extra poll just to make sure the numbers hadn’t lied.

“The poll shows an historic large drop in support for the Social Democrats. The drop is so big that we have to go all the way back to 1998 to see anything similar,” Megafon CEO Asger Nielsen told TV2.

Measured by parliamentary seats, the poll would mean that the Social Democrats would go from their current 47 down to 34.

The reason for the drop in support was clear. Voters rejected the party’s hard lurch to the right on immigration and asylum policies.

“We asked everyone who left the Social Democrats in the poll to explain why and when I looked at all of the explanations, for 80 percent of them the refugee situation was the clear reason,” Nielsen told Politiken.