The word is about, there’s something evolving,
whatever may come, the world keeps revolving
They say the next big thing is here,
that the revolution’s near,
but to me it seems quite clear
that it’s all just a little bit of history repeating
- Shirley Bassey /
An Independence Party MP being caught in dirty business? For Arni Johnsen, substitute Asbjorn Ottarsson.
The year? For 2001, substitute 2010.
Independence Party leader who stood by his man despite him having broken the law? Substitute David Oddson for Bjarni Benediktsson.
Morgunbladid’s response? For travelling to Vestmannaeyjar to photograph false evidence and publish as the truth, substitute a story about Asbjorn having made a mistake and quickly returned the money when he realised.
For returning fabric taken illegally, substitute returning money taken illegally?
Next move? Arni got re-elected, don’t bet against Asbjorn winning over the souls who’ve lost themselves to the party line.
It must be hard to lead a political party where one of the MP’s has publicly admitted having broken the law by paying himself dividends from a business run on heavy losses. Especially when the leader himself is emboiled in serious fraud involving the wiping out of the country’s largest insurance fund. It would have been nice to be able to call upon a vice-chairman for a PR whitewash if she herself hadn’t benefitted from a 900 million ISK bullet loan which still has to be seen whether she’ll have to pay or if it will be written off.
It should be disturbing enough that Asbjorn who appeared on TV last night to say that he broke the law but that is alright because he has returned the money, is in the parliamentary committee which is supposed to review the investigation committee’s report before it is published.
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icelandbob
7 months ago
Why all of a sudden do i feel a massive cloud of DOOM come over me…
Will it ever end? Probably not….
Blubber
7 months ago
Ignorantia legis neminem excusat.
Thankfully that woman who ran off from her 16000 kr cab fare was sentenced to a month in jail. Can’t have people like that roaming the streets freely.
One might perhaps suggest that she serve her time in Althingi?
The Chosan
7 months ago
What scares me the most is the fact that when the report comes out and all the bullshit, corruption and systematic breach of common decency is put in the open, nothing will happen.
The people will be angry, blog, fuss and then keep voting the same people, keep reading their media outlets such as Morgunblaðið and they will accept that nothing will change.
Boggi
7 months ago
As with icesave, soon people will start getting “gag reflexes” when they hear about this subject, that they won´t want to “hear anything about it” and just “desire” to “move on with our lifes”, this media tactic worked with icesave, why not with this too?
RLJ
7 months ago
Does noone else find it even slightly annoying that he can just pop into his bank and “pay it back” as though it is pocket change. It’s 20m ISK – that’s 5 times the average ANNUAL salary in Iceland. After taxes, it would take about 8 years for the average employee to earn that much.