Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Whence spiders spin

I heard two interviews with Icelandic voters on the radio yesterday, giving their opinion about the decision to hold a referendum on the question of paying compensation to the UK & Netherlands governments for the failure of Icelandic banks.

Both Icelanders mentioned the insult they felt at the use of anti-terror legislation by Gordon Brown as a reason for why they felt that they should not be the ones to pay