Merkel’s mistakes threaten Britain

THE Germans seldom do this. They are usually too careful, too methodical, too organised. I mean, making one mistake after another. But that seems to be what Chancellor Merkel has been doing.

First, she opens Germany’s doors to a million incoming refugees, hoping to score a moral triumph. It works for a week or so. Then when the full reality dawns, her people turn against her. The dislocation to their orderly lives starts a torrent of protest.

Then she rams through a deal that puts the tyrannical Turkish President Erdogan very much in the driving seat. He will confine in camps inside Turkey a few thousand of the human tide sweeping to Europe. In exchange 78 million Turks get visa-free access to Europe, plus three billion pounds for starters.

Now a leak reveals a German plan to create a true EU military union of army, navy, air force and command headquarters but separate from Nato with which we have happily and efficiently co-operated for years.

Add that to one police authority, one intelligence structure, one law code (corpus juris) and one judiciary. It is called a superstate – what David Cameron and his pro-Brussels sycophants said was never going to happen. On June 23 can we please have our country back?