Staunch anti-EU parties sweep back to power in Iceland

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The anti-EU voices now dominate Iceland, in accordance with the wishes of the Icelandic public. Only two parties out of six in their parliament support membership of the EU, and the anti-EU parties together have 76% of all the parliamentary seats. Whether it will be the centrist and agrarian Progressives or the centre-right Independents ruling the country is open to question. A ruling coalition should be very easy to sort out.

Moral: rejecting EU membership and keeping one's national sovereignty is working very well for Iceland, and business is booming once again in the country. It can work for us too.

Those are the parties that crashed the country's economy... the only reason they're back is because the outgoing parties lost their nerve in dealing with the banksters. They did well at first, but lost their nerve and went with austerity and this is an anti-austerity vote. Also, it's clear that the EU right now is a place that guarantees austerity and any suggestions to join the EU are clear messages to the public that it's austerity now, austerity forever.

They also admitted that they were wrong and resigned when they realised what they had done. They have apologised ever since and have learnt from their lessons.

As a tiny country it's hard to see why they would want to give up their sovereignty to the EU - what say would their numbers give them in the European Parliament? Not to mention getting the same treatment as the other fringe nations (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus) got when the big boys decided to lay down the law.

So the Icelanders dodged a bullet. Good for them.

They'd probably have about three or four MEPs.