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A party that hangs a skull-and-crossbones flag at its HQ, and promises to clean up corruption, grant asylum to Edward Snowden and accept the bitcoin virtual currency, could be on course to form the next Icelandic government.
The Pirate Party has found a formula that has eluded many anti-establishment groups across Europe. It has tempered polarising policies like looser copyright enforcement rules and drug decriminalisation with pledges of economic stability that have won confidence among voters.
This has allowed it to ride a wave of public anger at perceived corruption among the political elite - the biggest election issue in a country where a 2008 banking collapse hit thousands of savers and government figures have been mired in an offshore tax furore following the Panama Papers leaks.
The left-leaning party is part of a global anti-establishment typified by Britain's vote to leave the European Union. But their platform is far removed from the anti-immigration policies of the UK Independence Party, France's National Front and Germany's AfD, or the anti-austerity of Greece's Syriza.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iceland-election-idUKKCN11Z1RV
(Score: 5, Informative) by Webweasel on Wednesday October 05 2016, @01:37PM
I'd like to write you a polite reply about why I did vote to leave.
I could mention stuff like the Lisbon treaty and give solid reasons for my vote.
However, due to the insult in your post its quite clear that it would not have been possible to debate you on this subject. Your a zealot about the topic, so it would be a waste of our time.
I did vote from an anti-globalist view though, despite what you may think.
Not all of us are "they took our jerbs" idiots. Working in IT, its the Indians taking my jerb, not the Europeans, so EU immigration was not a deciding factor in my vote.
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @04:30PM
> Not all of us are "they took our jerbs" idiots.
Great you are a special snowflake.
Obviously no large group of people is monolithic, but hiding behind the fact that there are exceptions just obscures the fact that the majority of brexit voters were not so principled.