Kristrún Frostadóttir
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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And to her, this was a completely natural thing.
This is a very smart lady, well-educated.
But to her, her surroundings had changed massively over the past few decades.
In some cases, not because of the EU, but from like outside EU immigration.
And she associated those things together.
And I think these two worldviews, they just completely clashed, right?
And so that's why I've always been so aware as a politician, even before we put EU on the table on all matters, because we have rural and urban and the small country as well.
How can you bring these two sides together together?
And how you make sure that you're not closed off in your own little echo chamber of ideas and thoughts.
Keeping those conversations open and understanding what people are coming from.
So that's the biggest danger.
That you're just sitting in an office in London, Canary Wharf, and you don't know what other people are thinking.
Yeah, I mean, Iceland is an interesting country on that end because population-wise, it's almost like a city-state.
There's around 400,000 people that live here and 80% of the country lives in the southwestern corner.
And then you have these coastal towns around the country that have seen a dramatic change
change in their way of life over the past 30, 40 years, like you would see in coastal towns in the UK and in other countries, right?
Because of, you know, a big reason is just common modernity, right?
Things have changed, way of life has changed, but also because there have been governmental policies that have changed
the way these places operate.
There was a change in the fisheries law here that made it easier for these companies to basically condense, grow bigger, become more productive.
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