Iceland and fair play

The English have made much about notions of fair play. It's just not cricket is an expression that could only have emerged on the playing fields of Eton.

The loadsamoney culture initiated by Thatcher and, after John Major's doomed attempt to return to gentler and fairer social values, anchored by Blair's venal love of excessive wealth forever destroyed notions of fairness in English society.

Nowhere is this clearer in the Holland and UK's treatment of Iceland over the Icesave debacle.

There are some 320,000 Icelanders, close to 67 million British and 17 million Dutch. Iceland's GDP some $16 billion, the UK GDP some $2.8 trillion, Holland approx $900 billion GDP.

The laid back, pot smoking, Dutch and the fairplay Cool Britannia - combined GDP $3.7 trillion and combined population 84 million are bullying, bankrupting and robbing some 320,000 with a GDP of $16 billion.

Laid back Dutch? Fairplay Cool Britannia?

Grasping, venal, cheapskates more like - Holland and the UK are demanding all Icelandic people pay one-third of their GDP for a civil banking debt run up by criminal fraudsters aided and abetted by lax regulatory authorities in Holland and the UK!

Mother Jones, the brilliant, independent, US magazine pointed out it is as if all American people owed Holland and the UK some $4.2 trillion. As if all Brits owed one country $900 billion and the Dutch $300 billion.

The role of the EU and IMF in enforcing a civil banking debt, created by criminal fraudsters and allowed by criminal neglect by lax regulatory authorities is an international disgrace.

The Dutch, the British, the EU and the IMF hang your heads in shame. Revisit this disgraceful treatment of 320,000 people and send the Icelandic bankers, most living in luxury as non-doms in the UK and other EU countries, to prison.