Migrant boats on southern Spanish coasts has been a story for the last 340 years but last year’s surge in arrivals, especially to the Canary Islands, and particularly to the small island of El Hierro, is a vivid illustration of a complex and multifaceted crisis. Arrival numbers in 2023 soared by 82%. Over 50,000 people turned up, and almost 40,000 of them did so in the Canary Islands. At its core, this situation is a confluence of economic disparities, political instability and migration route shifts in the years after the Covid pandemic. And it’s all mixed in with polarised national populist identity politics.
Controlling immigration (which arrives mainly by plane, by the way) is common sense. Letting the extreme right be the only ones defending common sense political plots like this (and some others) seems crazy.
But if I always wanted to win the elections in Spain, I would encourage the possibility that the extreme right would win, and then appeal to fear so that everybody vote for us, the "crazies"...
Just curious. Was this article penned by you Mathew? It doesn't follow what I consider to be your "trademark" style. Just curious!
About GPT!
Controlling immigration (which arrives mainly by plane, by the way) is common sense. Letting the extreme right be the only ones defending common sense political plots like this (and some others) seems crazy.
But if I always wanted to win the elections in Spain, I would encourage the possibility that the extreme right would win, and then appeal to fear so that everybody vote for us, the "crazies"...
In France it works!
A nation without borders is no nation. Europe without borders will soon be Africa, and all that implies. Demography is destiny.