AND FINALLY

Now, the SchNEWS crew have become somewhat divided on the subject of voting. But one thing’s for sure a few of us would have been tempted to put the big X next to the name of Jon Gnarr, now mayor of Reykjavik. Doyenne of the city’s bohemian underground (his massage therapist wife is Bjork’s best friend), he named his party - “the Best Party”, handily putting it head and shoulders above the rest.“No one has to be afraid of the Best Party,” he said, “because it is the best party. If it wasn’t, it would be called the Worst Party or the Bad Party. We would never work with a party like that.” His manifesto commitments included free towels at swimming pools, the re-introduction of the polar bear and the promise of “a drug-free parliament by 2020”. They gained 34.7% of the popular vote.

Mr Gnarr is best known there for playing a television and film character named Georg Bjarnfredarson, a nasty, bald, middle-aged, Swedish-educated Marxist whose childhood was ruined by a militant feminist mother. In reality he’s an anarchist whose political party is a who’s who of the Icelandic punk scene.

With his party having won six of the City Council’s fifteen seats, Mr. Gnarr needed a coalition partner, but ruled out any party whose members had not seen all five seasons of “The Wire”. The Social Democrats duly brushed up on the antics of Stringer Bell et al and joined the Best Party in power. Shee-it!