Honour.

a comment by 'runar' on Daniel Hannan's Telegraph blog

It is worth reading, it needs a very wide readership.

"Hi. I am an Icelander and currently I am studying in Denmark. I could never in my wildest nightmares imagine this situation, which is upon us. It is amazing how things can alter within few weeks. As I left Iceland one year ago everything was fine, I had been working as a fisherman for many years to be able to pay for my education, and therefore raised some capital, which I believe is almost gone today (it was stored in Landsbankinn).
The little money I got left is impossible to transfer to Denmark because no one will accept Icelandic currency today. My part in this madness was ZERO and same goes for 99, 99% of the Icelanders. It was a group of ca 30-40 persons who are to blame for these crimes, some of them even had a tight relationship with the government.
Today I have lost much of my savings, many, many people has lost everything and face bankruptcy. I am mad at my government, I am really, really mad at the owners of Landsbankinn, Glitnir, Baugur and other companies who may cause the bankruptcy of my nation. But I am furious at Gordon Brown for his use of anti-terrorist law in the UK to freeze assets belonging to Icelandic banks. I believe that he is doing that to cover up his own mistakes as a leader and uses the lowest imaginable method, finding a mutual enemy, and chooses one of the smallest nations in Europe to step on.
I and thousands of Icelanders have lost our money, maybe Iceland will loose its economic freedom, but we will never accept loosing our honor, which is way more valuable the money ever can be.
Iceland will pay their dept to the British people, no matter what. I will quit school and abandon my dreams, go back to my ship and work till my fingers bleed to do my part in paying this dept. Because the people which is to blame, has all left Iceland in their private jets and left their financial crimes, all around the world, to the Icelandic people.
I apologize for the errors I believe are in this text, but English is not my strongest language to communicate with. But I do my best.
Best regards to the English people and I hope you will not judge the Icelandic people for the errors made by so few."

There is no way through The Telegraph site to contact people who comment on that blog, so just to put on record somewhere, thank you Runar. I wish our politicians had the same understanding of the word and the concept...... honour.