Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
i lol at all the people who are "non-icelandic - but in favour of them joining the EU", have you not realised it is none of your business?
Erm...it is very much our business. In fact, it is our business only and nobody else's.

But it would suit me just fine if British anti-EU sentiment would put its money where its mouth is and adopted the stance that it is none of Britain's business who joins the EU.


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About that column:
Iceland is a sovereign nation. Iceland is also a democracy - it boasts the oldest parliament in the world. It expressed its sovereign democratic will to start negotiations.

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.

My, isn't that a respectful way to start off negotiations with Iceland with!
Hannan ought to understand that being an elected representative of Britain does not always combine well with smug activist blogging activities.

I'll meet his challenge with another one: I'll give him his pound, if he goes to Ireland this October, starts off a rant in his affected posh English, protesting that the Irish democratic institutions are obviously inferior, incapable of representing the sovereign will of Ireland, and expressing the hope that the Irish people will listen to his superior English sentiments instead.
I'll give him another pound if, next time he meets, say, American members of Congress for negotiations, he publicly and in a derisive smug tone, insists that they will lose the next elections anyway, making any negotiations with American democratic representatives an obviously useless excersize.