Who cares if Iceland is a member or almost a member. That's not the point of the article. Can we discuss the main point please, that is a country's population refusing to bail out the criminals of the financial sector.
The lack of fact-based critical thinking is precisely what causes things like the 2008 financial crisis. If an argument is riddled with factual errors I cannot give any faith in its conclusion even if I am generally supportive of them.
Your politician's college was a long time ago, he as a man would have had time to change. The article's mistakes are right now; there's little reason to believe the sloppy fact checking improves right between the first paragraph and the second.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article491012...