Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
It is not on for Daniel Hannan - an elected MEP himself! - to insist that this ancient parliament is not expressing the will of the Icelandic population. Is Iceland not a democracy? Should we perhaps not take this parliament of Iceland's own choice seriously?
Does that clown Hannan not see both the double standard and the diplomatic affront of his juvenile column? He himself is speaking as an elected member of a parliament. Yet, here he is close to claiming that the elected members of another parliament do not represent their constituency.
His claim is also just plain false and irrelevant.

First of all, the Icelandic parliament haven't decided to join the EU without putting it to a vote by the public. That's just what they're doing! They have decided to negotiate with the EU so that they can let the people of Iceland decide, by referendum, whether to join or not. The discussion has been whether to have a referendum on beginning negotiations too, but that would've been undemocratic. Why? Because such a referendum would undoubtedly be presented as a for or against the eu-referendum, and without the negotiations, the Icelanders wouldn't know what deal they will get with the EU, and would therefore be asked to make an uninformed decision. While I can see why some capitalist managers would like that option, making uninformed decisions is after all their livelihood, to us others it's rather dumb...

And I say this as a "no"-man. because the EU, while a good idea, are held captive by the market-libby hippies.... get rid of them, and I'll support ya