Special?

Well it has been a tradition for a long time that once you are inside Althingi you can change sides, but hold your seat. Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, later president, did this. Steingrímur J. Sigfússon did this.And so on. So its accepted.

I, the nag, however am a sceptic. Sometimes people change parties because there is some kind of change in the air. Hannibal Valdimarsson changed parties a lot but they were alll different formations of a Social democratic party that kept changing names,

Its when people change parties because they do not accept the democratic situation. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir went awhol after losing the vote for chairman in the SDP and formed a new - SDP  - party.

In the present Althingi there are 6 MPs that have lost their parties. That is ten percent! Throughout the years its been one or two per session. Six are a party.

The first one since the last election was Þráinn Bertelsson who left the Civic movement - a new party, fighting against the corrupted etc system. The MP left the party as he lost confidence with his fellows, sat as an indipendant and then joined the Left greens. Now lets speculate. Did the people voting for the Civic movement, giving him a seat, whish to support the Left greens? I think not - so he should have stood down and left his seat for the next person on the Civic's list.

Shortly after that the remainder of the civic's parliamentary party left the civics political party...

So MPs that are constantly in the media going on about right and wrong, crime and punishment, democracy etc. leave their party, their voters, but hold their seats?

Give me a break!

And now two more of the righteous people decide to leave the Left greens parliamentary party but stay in the political party and not support the government. Why? They lost a vote...

The problem of the Left green is that there is still one MP on the shaky side and probably two ministers.

So me asks - whom are the representatives representing and how can we take the righteous people seriously when they treat democracy as a personal thing?