When does a turkey become a canard? When feathers start flying over Europe. David Cameron has dismissed Brexiteer concerns about a potential influx of millions of Turkish migrants by stating that Turkey wouldn’t join the EU until “the year 3000”.
Sir John Major followed suit on The Andrew Marr Show last weekend by claiming that Turkey wasn’t even close to joining the EU and scorning the idea of Turks pouring into Europe as “nonsense on stilts”.
Their argument is made of straw. Mass immigration from Turkey does not depend on EU accession. Contrary to the claims by Cameron and Major, such an influx is almost certain to happen. This is because Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has set a trap into which the EU, hamstrung