Here we go again. Having fought three rather pointless - though at times bitter - little wars over fishing limits, Britain and Iceland have now allowed a problem over British deposits in a failed Icelandic bank to become a crisis. Instead of two North Atlantic islands who are partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and who both charged into financial danger zones quietly sorting this out, prime ministers have swapped insults. Echoes of those cod wars are heard. The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has publicly declared Icelandic actions to be "effectively illegal" and "unacceptable" and the Icelandic Prime Minister, Gier Haarde, has expressed his annoyance that the UK used anti-terrorism legislation to seize assets in Britain of the one of the Icelandic banks. In a situation where people's money is at stake, one government tends to blame another and vice versa.
Here we go again.
Having fought three rather pointless - though at times bitter - little wars over fishing limits, Britain and Iceland have now allowed a problem over British deposits in a failed Icelandic bank to become a crisis.
Instead of two North Atlantic islands who are partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and who both charged into financial danger zones quietly sorting this out, prime ministers have swapped insults. Echoes of those cod wars are heard.
The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has publicly declared Icelandic actions to be "effectively illegal" and "unacceptable" and the Icelandic Prime Minister, Gier Haarde, has expressed his annoyance that the UK used anti-terrorism legislation to seize assets in Britain of the one of the Icelandic banks.
In a situation where people's money is at stake, one government tends to blame another and vice versa.
He evidently doesn't realise that the legislation was actually intended to allow the government and the police to do whatever they want whenever they want. Loads of people have been prevented from demonstrating under it, all dissent,be it against government or private industry,is now covered by the legislation.
We are all terrorists now. keep to the Fen Causeway
"Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep,
It starts when you're always afraid, to step out of line, the man comes, to take you away."
Thank You, Buffalo Springfield, 1960s In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
