Iceland's former Prime Minister on trial for negligence!

A precedent of considerable concern to many supposed democratic leaders and Commission officials across the EU is set today when Former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde goes on trial at a special court on charges of negligence in his handling of the 2008 financial crisis. The BBC News report on this trial is linked here.

As detailed blow by blow on this blog, the British Government's handling of the banking crisis, the full effects of which have been merely deferred rather than confronted; sometimes pale into insignificance when compared to the events within the eurozone, but what Brown and Darling accomplished nevertheless will eventually require their being brought to account!