A polar bear display for the zoo. Free towels at public swimming pools. A "drug-free Parliament by 2020." Iceland's Best Party, founded in December by a comedian, Jon Gnarr, to satirize his country's political system, ran a campaign that was one big joke. Or was it?Okay, but I do have one request for the new mayor.. can you just lock up Bjork and keep her under house arrest?
Last month, in the depressed aftermath of the country's financial collapse, the Best Party emerged as the biggest winner in Reykjavik's elections, with 34.7 percent of the vote, and Mr. Gnarr - who also promised a classroom of kindergartners he would build a Disneyland at the airport - is now the fourth mayor in four years of a city that is home to more than a third of the island's 320,000 people.
A Conservative Point of View from a transplanted Mississippian of British and American parents, who's now settled in Missouri.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry...
At the latest results in my country-of-birth (Yes, Icelandic born.. albeit on a military base)
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