They should have suspected that the possibility might occur that they would win the required majority of votes in last weekend’s election.
So what are we waiting for?
Five days later and there is still no announcement of an agreement between the Social Democrats and the Left Greens. What is going on?
They keep repeating that they are in no hurry, but then they are not really representing their constituents properly. The collective sigh of relief breathed by the nation when the election was finally over is making way to despair.
Don’t you see the country is broken? You have been allowed to lead the way, but do you know where you are going?
I only buy parts of the explanation that they don’t see eye to eye on the EU. I suspect the bigger hold-up relates to the fact that this is one of the largest financial mess any country has found itself in in recent history. And they aren’t sure which road-map to trust on the way out of here.
We are fed up with waiting. What are you going to do?
Much has been written about the Independence Party, the Progressive Party and the Social Democrats and the parts they played in the ruin. But the Left Greens have to start showing that they are able to handle complex matters and offer solutions.
All their existence so far has revolved around being against. When you’re always against you don’t have to offer solutions. Atli Gislason, MP tread in that quagmire earlier this week when he said he was totally against talks with the EU, other options should be looked into. It is always a dollar, Norway or something but rarely a well thought out plan. The people who have managed to climb the steps in the party seem to have focused their interest on issues that relate to values. Feminism, nature-issues etc. that are very important indeed but hardly what is required to stop the fire. The importance that was given to banning strip-clubs from operating in Iceland during the 80 days previous to the election was peculiarly odd.
So are we waiting for the Left Greens to complete a crash-course on economics? Or could it be something as terrifying as waiting for May 1st to declare a victorious new left-wing government? That would be a major eff-you to the nation for the benefit of ideological spinsters.
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Physchim62
1 year ago
I’m increasingly convinced that nobody in Iceland’s political class has the faintest idea of HOW to apply for EU membership, let alone what the implications would be for the government and the country in general. If true, this would be truly worrying (but hardly surprising). I’ll try to blog on it at more length at the Ministry of Puffins, once I’ve done my research, as I quite agree with the sentiments you raise here.