A politician being held responsible for their poor leadership and bad decisions? Have we recieved a news broadcast from an alternate dimension where everything is backwards?
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Well, the question is: is she actually responsible?
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edited 6th Sep '11 7:00:58 AM by TotemicHero
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Is it ministerial responsibility to prop up businesses which were responsible for their own decline?
The bankers are responsible first and foremost for ensuring that their institutions are able to pay their debts and that they do not expose themselves to dangerous levels of risk. That does not acquit politicians of responsibility, especially with regards to central bank policy. But banksters and speculators have gotten off too lightly amidst financial chaos.
edited 6th Sep '11 7:44:05 AM by Shichibukai
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Idiocy. Banks ruin things and we blame politicians?
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No, just Iceland, although, it might in an alternate dimension.
Well, public opinion is mixed on the issue. Lots of people think the trial is scapegoating the former PM.
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...unless there was malicious intent, charging a politician with something like this is idiotic. It's not as if a single politician actually has complete control over the economy, unless they went from socialist to full-blown Soviet communist while I wasn't looking...
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This
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I wasn't really paying much attention. I only got "holding office during a disaster".
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Former Icelandic PM, Geir Haarde has been attending a special court on charges of failures of ministerial responsibility.
Mr Haarde has said that he wants the charges thrown out and called it a "farce". The maximum sentence for this "crime" is two.
The collapse of the Icelandic banking system, while he was Prime Minster, strained relations between Iceland and both the UK and the Netherlands.
In effect, this man is being charged for supposely allowing or failing to stop the Icelandic banking crisis and the case is being heard in something called the Landsdomur court. This court is a special court in which cabient minsters can be tried.
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