Posted on06 March 2010.
Icelanders have been voting in the referendum on December’s Icesave law since 09.00 this morning.
There are around 230,000 eligible voters in today’s referendum and the majority have had to wait until today to get their voices heard – although absentee and advance voting have been running for weeks.
The first results are expected at around 22.00 this evening with updates throughout the night.
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Prior to your referendum, the news in the UK reported widespread Icelandic feeling that the UK was a ‘bully’ in the matter of the Icesave collapse negotiations. I have some sympathy with the people of Iceland, having visited the country and enjoyed hospitality their as a student many years ago. I learned then that the Icelandic people are both generous and fair-minded. It seems to me, however, that perhaps the Icelandic authorities have, like the British and Dutch, not called to account, the reckless actions of the bankers involved. Are you, in Iceland, as unhappy as me and millions of fellow Brits, to see these people free to continue unchallenged while ordinary Icelandic people face economic hardship? In Britain, thousands of savers such as pensioners, cancer hospitals and local councils lost huge sums of money because of irresponsible greed. Being bailed out by the government merely spread the problem to ordinary people to the tune of thousands of krona / euros / pounds sterling per head. Our respective government negotiations should agree to prosecute the greedy criminal behaviour of the so-called financial experts instead of ‘bullying’ one another.
What a load of nonsense this all is. Some Icelandic Bank Managers and manipulators are responsible for this mess. Not the People of Iceland. Foreign money was thrown into Icelandic Banks in get rich schemes that failed miserably. The People of Iceland can’t be held to ransom for this. Doesn’t the Althingi realise this?