Iceland votes to join EU

Members of the Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi, have narrowly voted to surrender one of the oldest parliaments on the planet to the European Empire in 2013.

Iceland has had its own parliament since 930 with only a 45 year break.

The Icelandic economy relied almost exclusively on fishing, banking and tourism until recently when most of their banks collapsed (helped along by the British government abusing anti-terrorism laws to force the UK arm of an Icelandic bank into administration) and the Europe-wide recession meant nobody could afford to go to Iceland on holiday. Iceland is now bankrupt with no hope of paying its way out of insolvency in our lifetime and sees the European Empire - and more specifically, our money - as the only way to balance the books.

Emperor Barroso is happy with the vote, saying that Iceland is a "European country with long and deep democratic roots". He likes a challenge does Emperor Barroso, unravelling 1,079 of parliamentary democracy in 4 years will keep him busy.

He went on to say that it was evidence of the "vitality of the European project and indicative of the hope that Europe represents". Hope that the net contributors to the imperial treasury - the UK, the Netherlands and Germany - will bail them out and they will need bailing out for a long time because not only has their banking sector been devastated but they will find their fishing industry eradicated by EU fishing quotas and their tourism industry wiped out by the EU's green taxes targeted at preventing people from flying.

Iceland has two options for the future - they can either stay as an independent, sovereign nation and emerge from recession in a few years as an independent, sovereign nation or they can submit themselves to EU imperialism and have their economy pegged at third world levels for the next few decades.