Back in May last year I posted about the situation in Iceland where in 2008 their banking system had been looted and their financial sector had collapsed with debts beyond belief. The people and their elected politicians not least their Prime Minister, Sigmundor David Gunnlaugsson, responded by disbanding some banks and jailing the bankers.
Since then they have opted out of the European Union, they have formed only three relatively small domestic banks to keep the economy going and have gone from strength to strength. They also adopted sensible and pragmatic economic measures to ensure that their economy recovered and prospered. They now appear to be a very wealthy little nation.
Now here is the crux! Their politicians served their people. Their politicians showed a sense of national pride and their politicians were not on the take from the international corporations who have brought such misery to the people. Their Prime Minister is a Prime Minister and not a furtive corporate leader.
They do not squander millions every day on the EU. They don't ignore public opinion and continue to donate our money to China, India, Pakistan and Africa amidst outrage. They put Icelanders first and their country first. Iceland is therefore an example to us all and it is going even further.
Iceland is as aware as most of us are that we are being snooped upon by 'big' government like never before. They have therefore introduced 'Unseen.is' a rival to 'Skype' and 'E-Mail' based in Iceland. Potentially this is a huge stride forward in an effort to release the shackles of the huge tax avoiding multinationals.
In my opinion this is genuine leadership. It is the first instance of genuine, independent, national leadership since the EU was hoist upon us all through the back door. The Icelanders seem to be determined to make their mark. I wish them so much luck because I fear that they may need it. If you have mercenary tendencies you might like to fight for an independent Iceland!
Anyone who has read my ramblings over the past year or so will know that I am not a fan of David Cameron. I believe that he is trying to please too many people and as a consequence he has lost his credibility. Having said that he has done us all a favour by defying the Stalinists from the Lib Dems and the Communists from Labour and insisting that the press regulate themselves.
If we ever submit to any sort of 'independent' authority regulating the press it would soon be stuffed by the usual 'Common Purpose' recruited suspects and we would end up with the British equivalent of 'Pravda'.
Don't get me wrong the press have, in many cases, acted disgracefully in the past. Their pursuit of individuals, the 'doorstepping' and the phone hacking should have had no place in our society. Some of these individuals should rightly be punished and probably will be.
However, the celebrity stuffed group 'Hacked Off' has been given far too much prominence in the media which always makes me suspicious that something nasty is afoot. Amidst them are genuine people who have been treated badly by the press and the Dowlers are probably the most high profile. I do however seriously object to the McCanns being continually linked with the Dowlers because their cases are vastly different.
When I see Gerry McCann being used as a victim of the press when the only victim was his daughter I get angry. Nobody yet knows what happened to his daughter because there is a lot of conflicting evidence but what we do know is that he left his daughter alone and unprotected because he and his wife preferred to socialise. In the case of the Dowlers their daughter was murdered by a beast. Where is the link?
This whole episode is being led by the Media Standards Trust which despite the high sounding title is full of people who do not have our health at the heart of their objectives. They are using actor Hugh Grant as a front man and he of course has his own reasons for hating the press.
If the Lib Dems and Labour gang up on the Conservatives then surely the Coalition is finished for ever and we are all back to square one. If they win the vote on Monday and then a General Election should follow because it is clear that the Cameron/Clegg alliance has collapsed.
Subsequently however, if the moronic public vote for a Miliband/Clegg alliance then you will see a collapse of public freedom the like of which will never have been seen before in this country!
