“The Continental types, the elites there, are a bunch of fools”
They are arrogant, but they are not fools.
Merkel made a mistake thinking the draft dodging Syrians would be like the come to Germany to work Turks.
As for May, she’s getting bad advice.
Anyone who tries to pull their own roof down over their head is a fool IMO regardless of how cleverly they have couched their words.
Merkel made a remark a while back in response to criticism of immigration that drew controversy - what is a German? she said. Since WW2, Germans have apologized for being German. By diluting the pop, and then asking, what is a German?, did Merkel attempt to redefine or, what’s the word, reduce the need for future apologizing, paving the way for a larger militarized Germany (currently less than 1/4m active duty)? But her new guests didn’t want to enlist. Or do much of anything it seems. Always wondered what her end-game thinking was.