Icelandic president on Newsnight with übercool Jeremy Paxman
Here are peoples’ comments on mbl.is’s commentary on the interview. Most folks, I included, thinks he did a fine job. Not once did Paxman manage to talk all over him, which is what he is so good at. He’s a tough one, that Paxman, which is why people like him. Weird how he very disrespectfully referred to the president as just “some president”, though.
Paxman didn’t really have a come-back on the fact that, though the governments of countries like France, Holland and Ireland, and other EU countries, have trusted the people of their nations to vote on important issues in national referendums, Britain’s governments have never shown its people this trust.
Said president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson:
In Britain the parliament is sovereign; in Iceland the people are sovereign.
