Given that I was there less than a month ago
You'd think I might have heard something about this when talking to the locals. After all, revolutions are not the sort of information that slips under the radar.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 9:55,
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Well, having never been to Iceland, I can't really comment...
I can only go on what I read on the internet, hence I'm self-consciously wearing a pointy, shiny hat this morning and sitting in the corner while I type.. but I read things like this - cac.ophony.org/2012/04/16/the-icelandic-revolution-why-didnt-i-hear-about-it/ - and wonder.
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That's not a revolution
Firstly, this was in 2008, why are people only interested in it now?
Removing one political party and installing another within the same government framework isn't a revolution. We've had governments collapse in the past and that wasn't considered a revolution. Why in this case?
Nationalising the banks. Wow. That's unheard of. Except that we did it with Northern Rock, Lloyds, RBS, HBOS and I'm sure there were others.
Its viewing things through a particularly skewed filter to say there was a revolution over there. I was also there in 2008 and 2009 and at no point did anyone call it a revolution. You therefore have to ask what particular axe are the people writing that article grinding, and it looks like the same tired old anti-establishment tinfoil crap to me.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 10:23,
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I wasn't aware we nationalised our banks
I thought we kept them private and threw money at them and shuffled their boards around a little bit until they said "sorry, we promise to not fuck up again, here, let us help you write the govt policies that will definitely stop us fucking up again". Interested now? I only found out about it now. That was my concern.
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Also, I'd suggest that people are getting more interested now
because they are now noticing that Iceland's economy is doing rather well and wondering what they've done differently.
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They can pay us all the money they owe then?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 10:48,
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Just found this, if it helps -
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2028276/Iceland-set-pay-British-debt-months-following-massive-sale-retail-stakes.html
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That was over a year ago
Did we get our money back and not told?
*checks bank account*
Also Ireland owes us a few quid, how are they doing?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 11:02,
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hahaha, what am I, your Googling monkey??
I have no idea. Since when did good news make the headlines, anyway? You'd have to do a bit of digging to find out what actually happened next. Let me know what you find :-)
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DANCE FOR ME GOOGLE MONKEY
*throws peanuts* *claps hands*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 12:54,
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Northern Rock certainly were
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalisation_of_Northern_Rock
The others we held a majority stake in.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 11:02,
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Did you get as far as this bit?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalisation_of_Northern_Rock#Eventual_return_to_the_private_sector
It was sold to Virgin for a song, after we taxpayers plumped it up nicely (Or promised to, by way of borrowing money to give it and increasing our national debt)
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