Gordon Brown has FURIOUSLY LASHED OUT at hapless Iceland this evening after volcanic ash ground UK air traffic to a halt for yet another day, threatening Britain’s fragile economy for the second time in as many years.
And as the prime minister attempts to position himself as an experienced leader ahead of the next election debate, he is widely expected to demand billions of pounds in compensation from the exploding outcrop he branded a terrorist state just 18 months ago, Happy Claptrap can disclose.
“First their banks brought our economy crashing down to earth and now it seems they want to bury us into the bargain,” thundered Brown as thousands of stranded UK travellers face at least one more day of misery. “Well, I give you a personal guarantee this will not be allowed to happen under a Labour government.”
“Reykjavik has refused to pay back the huge sums defrauded from the British taxpayer,” explained an unnamed source close to number 10. “Now, to add insult to injury, it does rather seem as if they have farted into our collective face.”
But Icelandic President Olaf Ragnar Grimsson hit back at the claims, declaring it “ludicrous to suggest the volcano was a terrorist act committed against the British people.”
