It had been a while since I got to writing my usual anti-EU ramblings, so here I am again, anent Iceland's decision to enter the European mousetrap Union.
Do behold the dark despair which has moved this bankrupt country to throw herself into the greedy arms of Brussels, wishing and hoping that Brussels will solve her problems.
Perhaps what surprises me the most is the fact that a country in which 70% of the GDP is made up by fishing should join the European Union -- a Union known for its crippling and unfair fishing quotas. I can almost picture the Icelandic fishermen whittling away the hours playing dominoes or taking tourists for three-hour tours; as a matter of fact, doing anything but fishing cod, thanks to Brussels.
It is also sad that a country which has a democratic parliament elder than our own -- the althing, established 930 AD -- should choose to join the most antidemocratic political organism in the Western World. And it has done so in true -- antidemocratic -- Eurocratic fashion: the opposition asked the Icelandic government to hold two referenda: one to see if the people agreed ( 
) and another to decide when they should hold their talks with the Brussels fat cats.
The Social Democrats hoping that the euro and the EU would save the island from bankruptcy (the mind boggles 
) steamrolled the Left-Green movement, the only ones who had the guts to oppose this move.
And yet, the fact remains that fishing represents than no less than 70% of Iceland's GDP.
They were warned.
Iceland entereth the mousetrap
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Originally Posted by King Edward III
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