It seems to me that The Netherlands was able to get a satisfactory agreement with Iceland for getting peoples' money back to them without having to resort to threats or invoking any drastic measures. From what I've read in this thread from the thread originator, it doesn't look to me like Iceland was unwilling to pay the money back. And yet I keep seeing angry words from UK people in this thread accusing Iceland of wanting to steal the money and even some comments calling the Icelanders crooks.

All this bluster from Brown looks like a politician trying to divert attention away from his own culpability in the problems his country now faces, and using Iceland as his scapegoat. And it looks like a lot of people in the UK are buying it.