Re: Italy struggles under immigration
Hi
The problem, in EU Terms, can be traced back to Merkel and her bid to become the next Secretary General of the UN.
The job was supposed to be filled by a woman from Eastern Europe, they have kind of a rota system for candidates.
In order to show here credentials, she invited Migrates from the Middle East and Africa to Germany, she called it humanitarian and the Migrants were called Refugees.
She had shown naff all interest before.
Instead of flying them in to Germany, which would have been the correct thing to do, she told them to make their own way to Germany, which they did, over a million of them, flooding in on boats and overwhelming Italy and Greece.
She did not get the job and things started to go wrong in Germany with the mass sex assaults.
She tried to turn off the tap, using EU Money, not Germany's money, giving 3 Billion Euros to Turkey, which Erdogan said thank you very much to.
That did not work, so she is now deporting vast numbers of the ones that she does not want, back to poor Italy and Greece and insisting that each EU Country takes a quota of her unwanted.
She did all this without consulting other EU Countries.
She has berated to the UK for refusing to take any of these, that is in spite of the fact that we are taking 20,000 genuine refugees a year, who we check abroad and bring here at our expense.
Germany, which is a very rich country, they have a Budget Surplus, spends less on Foreign Aid that the UK does, and we have to borrow that money.
That in a nutshell, explains things and in particular explains why I voted to leave, we are being dictated to and I want no part of it.
I didn't want to leave, it simply does not make financial sense to leave, it is going to really hurt, but we had to.
I will not be dictated to my someone I cannot vote for.
It need not have been like this.
We have had years as a huge contributor, to chuck our weight around and say no, we are not having this, so swan off.
Neither Blair, Brown or Cameron had the guts to say this and change things to our benefit.
France has the same size economy as the UK, we should be paying the same, yet France has arranged things so they get far more back from the EU that we do, so their net payments, which is the thing that really counts, is much lower.
I did not like Maggie, I did not like her Politics, but one thing is for sure, she put the UK first, was a great negotiator and would have been more than a match for Merkel, Juncker and Co.
Unfortunately now we have a bunch of jokers doing our negotiating for us.