Most people I've ever met from Denmark or Sweden seem a bit bemused by the UK opinion of the Nordics as some kind of paradise.
An initial Google suggests that the Danish far right fell back in the last election after having been considered a threat (is that right?), but that in Sweden the far right were recently polling as the biggest party.
And on the internationally-recognised scale of Domestic Drill Influence:
Not a paradise by any means, but we're a lot richer and have a larger welfare state than the UK. Lower, but growing inequality and I get the feeling that our labor market is a bit more forgiving.
What people often talk about when this Nordic exeptionalism comes up is the unusually high degree of social trust around here.
The big nationalist right party fell back from something like 20% to 8% this summer. A small portion of that went to two other far right parties. One of those are unabashed neo-nazis and they got 1,8% which is just short of the limit to get a seat in parliament.
The centre left went up and is the biggest party now, which could look like a step in the opposite direction from the rest of Europe. But our centre left party is much less pro immigration so I don't really what it says about the people.