Icelander Puffin-eating merchant bankers
That guy has the nerve to say we could have helped Iceland more !
While it is a universal truth that banker, anywhere, is rhyming slang, I can't help feeling that the 'cod wars' are due again for a re-match, how would they like it if the gloves were off or they tried that against Russian warships ?
The only Icelander I knew, and unfortunately it was one way or another over 5 years +, was a lazy, thieving, treacherous bastard - he even stole my father's computer, and just before that when I bought a mobile phone for him on returning to the UK so he could find work, his first reaction was to sell it for a few pints of beer in the local pub ( and I was not exactly overflowing with money at the time, out of a job myself briefly ).
I thought he was an exception, but now I'm beginning to wonder - as said, let's see how they like it under Russian rule !
If it's so bloody strategic, well I'm sure there's a way round that,
A, I don't think even Putin is daft enough to start WWIII,
B, It might kick our politicians - of any flavour, the tories are just as bad - into funding things like a decent amount of Type 45 ships & Astute class subs, and keeping to their promises re. CVF & JSF, also Typhooon tranche 3.
Yours not particularly optimistically,
DZ