The more I think about it the more I see some powerful ideologies at work behind all this. I think it's why, for years, the EU continues to admit countries that the original members have to sub, so it is not in our economic interest, but for some larger political interest. I cannot otherwise understand why for the life of me I am made to feel like a racist or a xenophobe simply for wanting a sensible immigration policy like Canada's. Since Cologne emerged, the airwaves have been full of pro-EU 'the sky will fall in without free movement of people' commentators, none of whom can say precisely why.
As soon as Schengen started looking shaky with internal borders going back up, the pressure was bizarrely and unfairly switched to Greece to sort out their external border or face having a new EU border put up the wrong side of them. Some EU official made the peculiar comment that they could use their navy more effectively to police their sea border. But if they aren't 'allowed' to return any boats they find, what use would it be in terms of numbers arriving in Europe?
Europe KNEW that Colonel Gadaffi was the main reason there wasn't a huge influx of economic migrants from North Africa. Yet we went ahead and bombed anyway. We were also clearly warned that stopping Mare Nostrum would lead to disasters in the Med yet it was closed down anyway. Subsequent disasters don't seem to be leading to a 'perhaps we'd better reinstate it and give Italy the money to run it' debate - why not?? Decisions have been made that everyone in power knew would lead to huge influxes of migrants.
David Cameron says he wants to bring down immigration to the tens of thousands yet non-EU migration is higher than ever in our history.
Somebody either wants or doesn't mind this inward flow of economic migrants. And if I had no morals and a game plan of free movement of people, what better way than to foment wars in the Middle East and Africa. Pretend every economic migrant is one of the resultant genuine refugees, knowing that Europe will have a 'we must help them all' attitude with the asylum rule of 'don't turn anyone away' to back it up.