To apply anti-terrorist laws to freeze Icelandic assets is a long way beyond what is acceptable and it has left a lot of bad feelings,” he told The Daily Telegraph. Almost nobody on this island nation can fathom what made Britain think it proportional to list Iceland’s central bank alongside al-Qaeda as a terrorist organisation.
“Somehow we have to solve this problem in a civilised manner, but the IceSave agreement is very unpopular. People feel that this imposes a terrible burden,” he said. Indeed, he himself has to walk a daily gauntlet, passing youths wearing “IceSlave” T-shirts on the Hverfisgata drag.
In Iceland they now realise they are going to be in debt for generations, in Britain Nu Labour are still spending our money in their heads and making promises the national credit card cannot support.