Tomorrow is the first national referendum Icelandic citizens have been allowed to participate in by the political elite since the conception of the republic in 1944. By all measures, this should be a happy day for democracy in Iceland. But instead it is not a cause for celebration but a large milestone in the farcical [...]

“Would you like the EU to take the credit for our victories?” Does this video imply that we can claim victory if Germany, France or Spain wins the World Cup in July? Or that we can claim victory no matter who wins Eurovision? And does this mean that people in Spain take great pride in [...]

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 [...]

According to DV.is Asbjorn Ottarsson, Independence Party MP paid himself and his wife 65 million ISK in dividends from their fishing company Nesver in 2008. The company lost 574 million ISK in the same year and had a negative equity of 157 million ISK. This is one of the 63 people who is supposed to [...]

For people from outside Iceland it is probably hard to understand the world Bjarni Benediktsson seems to live in. The chairman of the Independence Party who is normally afraid of speaking his mind under the watchful gaze of his predecessors says in an interview with Frettabladid today that he is pro-European. He claims that it [...]

The love hate relationship between the Independence Party and Jon Asgeir Johannesson’s Baugur gets stranger every day. The right wing politicians of the Independence Party loves to blame everything that is wrong with Iceland on Jon Asgeir and Baugur. If you believe what they say in the media then you’d deduct that they actually hate [...]

Gisli Marteinn Baldursson, Independence Party city council member doesn’t want the state to be responsible for the debts of “some private business downtown”, i.e. IceSave. Except Landsbankinn is not just a private business downtown. It was privatized by David Oddson from the Independence Party, into the hands of Independence Party favorites Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson and Bjorgolfur [...]

Every Thursday morning, Independence Party MP Petur Blondal can be heard on radio Bylgjan’s morning talk show arguing against a Left Green MP, usually Atli Gislason. When his opponent tried to explain that the perilous budget cuts and tax hikes facing the state were a necessary hangover cure needed after the last few years Petur kept scolding [...]

What is Fanney Birna Jonsdottir thinking of her beloved Independence Party today? The only candidate for the leadership position of SUS (Association of Young Independence Party members) on the morning of election Sunday, the moderate conservative who’s been working her way up the party ladder for years might have been forgiven for thinking that this [...]

What are people like Bjarni Benediktsson, Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir and Olafur Stephensen thinking now? Do they really belong in the same corner of society as David Oddson, Bjorn Bjarnason, Hannes Holmsteinn Gissurarson, Kjartan Gunnarsson and Oskar Magnusson? Or is their political career “paid” by the same interest groups? The list of Independence Party coat-tailers whose [...]