Iceland in EU. Yes or no?

[rory_20_uk]

Why didn't I think of that!?

Instead of 'Lisbon: for or against', give them this referendum:
A) Join Europe, free and independent.
B) Join England.

Is that a joke? Free and independent in Europe? Joint something with Tony Blair as the first President once everyone gets crushed by the re-votes until they get the "right" answer?

Joining the EU is akain to going to a loanshark in difficult times. Sure, you get the money and a big smile, but then you find you've sold your future.

[Pannonian]

Is that a joke? Free and independent in Europe? Joint something with Tony Blair as the first President once everyone gets crushed by the re-votes until they get the "right" answer?

Joining the EU is akain to going to a loanshark in difficult times. Sure, you get the money and a big smile, but then you find you've sold your future.

We in England respect democracy. Once a vote is held, its result matters. However, we may whip you into compliance to ensure the right result comes through.

[rory_20_uk]

Yes, but the government also reserves the right not to vote if it feels it might loose, and hence on some decisions best not give the populace the vote who might vote incorrectly and instead roundly whip the politicians to do the "right" thing... and considering the number in the EU bureaucracy who are washed up domestic MPs or wives (the Kinnocks anyone?) it's hardly a bad thing.

And although the result matters, issues can be "revisited" which amounts to trying to overturn a previous decision.

After all, this is the reason we hadn't yet had an election as by delaying Brown is definitely in power, by holding one he's probably not.

[Louis VI the Fat]

It is now up to the EU to negotiate terms. I say hit 'em while they're down. My list of demands of puny Iceland:

- Higher education on the island of Iceland must be forbidden. Instead, it will be cumpulsory for all women aged 18-24 to spend these years abroad for their adult education.
- Meanwhile all Icelandic men aged 18-24 must perform compulsory military service in Iceland and do something useful involving ice caps or polar bears or something.
- An end to whaling.
- A treaty that finally settles all territorial disputes with the UK, involving a public statement by Elisabeth II that the Royal Navy was defeated by Iceland.
- Agriculture will not be subsidized. Subsidized agriculture in Iceland is as sensible as subsidized skiing resorts in Sicily.
- Iceland must agree to the following stimulus package and economic restruturing: the EU in Brussels and Strasbourg will need interpreters from Old Norse to and from the other twenty-odd official languages of the EU. This will permanently employ half of the Icelandic working population.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Iceland already got fleeced by politicians, bank officials & business leaders taking advantage of finance deregulation *boy that sounds vaguely familiar too, if only I can put my finger on it*. If those are the terms, I wouldn't be surprised if the Icelanders vote to fart in the EU's general direction.

[Louis VI the Fat]

fart in the EU's general direction.

You are just envious they came running to us instead of to you.

But then, we've always had that effect on Viking godesses.


I have not felt this superior since my girlfriend's cat hurt its wee little paw and then rushed over to me for consolation instead of to her. She sat purring on my lap for hours. So I threw her off to see to the cat.

[Kagemusha]

You are just envious they came running to us instead of to you.

But then, we've always had that effect on Viking godesses.


I have not felt this superior since my girlfriend's cat hurt its wee little paw and then rushed over to me for consolation instead of to her. She sat purring on my lap for hours. So I threw her off to see to the cat.

And i was under the impression that in the past it was the vikings carrying your women to their ships while their husbands were performing a strategic retreat or something akin to that. Silly me.

[HoreTore]

You are just envious they came running to us instead of to you.

Hah, they came running to us first!