REMAINER MPs, HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR EU?

EXAMPLE: EU’s migrant crisis is over, right? Er... NO

EU asylum applications

Latest EU asylum figures make for shocking reading

Most Remain MPs know very little about the EU. Brexit Facts4EU.Org continues their education with an update on the EU’s continuing migrant crisis.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

The EU’s migrant crisis did not end in 2015
From 2016-2018 there have been 2.4 million first-time asylum applications
In 2018 alone there were 580,800 first-time applications in the EU
79% of all applicants were under 35 years old
70% of all applicants were male
Only 13.9% came from Syria
In the last 10 years there have been 5.6 million first-time asylum applications

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The EU’s migrant crisis did not stop after the disastrous episode in 2015, when Angela Merkel unilaterally broke the EU’s Dublin protocol and opened Germany’s borders, precipitating a huge influx of migrants into the EU.

Note: In this article we have looked only at first-time asylum applicants, to avoid any duplication. In other words, we are excluding those who have tried to claim asylum more than once. This gives a truer picture of real numbers. Needless to say, the figures we have researched do not include those who have entered the EU illegally and who have not applied for asylum.

Remainer MPs remain misinformed

Brexit is by far the most important issue facing our MPs in two generations. It has dominated the political landscape and has occupied more Parliamentary time than any other issue over the past three years.

As such, MPs who pronounce on the subject should of course be informed. Sadly, we have not found this to be the case.

Three years ago the EU Commission placed the cost per migrant at € ¼ million. On that basis, the cost of migrants making asylum claims in 2018 alone would run to €145 billion.

Observations

Over the past three years we have researched and published detailed articles on a wide variety of topics in relation to the EU and the UK’s membership of it, from economics to defence to law-making to sovereignty and everything in between.

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In each case the facts we have published differ significantly from the bald and vague claims of Remain MPs.

Is immigration the main issue?

Many MPs continue to believe that immigration was the overriding issue which caused the majority of the electorate to vote to leave the EU.

Based on our interaction with Leave voters we are as certain as we can be that their decision was based on a combination of many serious concerns about the EU. Immigration was just one of these. Ending freedom of movement was never going to be enough.

Nonetheless, the EU’s migrant crisis was a factor, and for very good reasons.

It showed up the hypocrisy of the EU. Angela Merkel acted unilaterally and without any agreement from the other 27 countries when she opened Germany’s borders in 2015 and effectively tore up the EU’s Dublin Protocol.

Rules based?

If this had been done by anyone other than the EU’s largest economy, does anyone seriously think that the EU Commission would not have moved to punish that country? In fact Germany has never received any censure from the EU Commission, let alone a fine of billions for the cost her actions have caused to other member states.

If the UK had done this, we are sure the British government would be looking at a fine of tens of billions of pounds.

Not that Remain MPs will be interested, of course….

One final point

The BBC regularly refers to “over a million refugees” entering the EU. Even if we only look at asylum applications in 2015 and 2016, the true figure was 2.5 million.

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[ Source: EU Commission's official statistics agency (Eurostat) ]

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, 18 Mar 2019

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Reader Comments 3

1. Steven Chambers , Monday, March 18, 2019, 08:06:

BBC are either masters of understatement or exceptionally sparing with the truth. The latter I’m sure.

2. Not4EU, London , Monday, March 18, 2019, 08:10:

I applaud your persistence to try & educate the anti-democratic remainiac MPs (it's way past remoaners now). It has been somewhat enlightening watching these people repeating proven lies as the 'truth' in Parliament. No facts, just 'feelings'. As evidenced by your EU troll, they are not interested in 'facts' nor can they provide any supporting facts to counter for their 'arguments'. They just have their fingers in their ears, shouting "La, La, La... EU good, UK bad." (Apologies to G. Orwell.) Watching the shenanigans, there seems to be significant evidence to have an IQ test for Parliamentarians. They must all be ousted and never let near the levers of power again.
As to those 'pretending' to support leave, no one with brain cells could consider May's surrender Treaty as leaving in any shape or form. I don't believe that the German surrender terms, after a war, were as bad. For those thinking that they'll 'get it over the line' & fix it later, you are being played for the fool that you are. As to 'if we don't agree, we won't be leaving', IT ISN'T LEAVING! Read the 'kin 'agreement'. To help you, look at this simple chart, which only covers the BIG issues (there's plenty more demonstrating that we will remain under the EU jackboot)...
https://lawyersforbritain.o...
The people (remember them?) are NOT with you on this.
Stand firm, vote the 'deal' down. Leave as instructed on 29th March 2019 on WTO terms. It is the only way that you will (possibly) save yourselves. If a democratic country fails to implement a democratically made decision, it ceases to be a democracy. The 'deal' is not leaving. We become a slave colony. The Emporer has no clothes.

3. barbara Jell , Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 00:34:

Sir Bil Cash gave a wonderfully upbeat speech on the BBC Monday evening for all of 5 minutes WITHOUT any interruptions from the presenter! He assures us that we are legally bound to leave the EU on the 29th March and I believe him in spite of the shameful behaviour of Parliamentarians. John Bercow has at last remembered how to carry out his job with some integrity and has refused to allow another vote on the same deal. I am convinced that, as I cautiously predicted, events are spiralling out of control in Parliament and we will leave by default.
Booking my transport to London for the 29th.

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