A New Metternich

  

                                                     Danke Mutti Merkel!

Greatness is comparative.

Take David Cameron, for example. Nobody’s ever thought of him as great with the possible exception of his mother and his dog. And his dog doesn’t count because as Aldous Huxley had it, “To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”

But imagine David Cameron next to Angela Merkel and suddenly he starts to grow and even look vaguely Churchillian.

Take their respective handling of the Syrian migrant crisis.

Earlier this year while Merkel was bullying Greece into accepting the latest “rescue package”, David Cameron was quietly funnelling a billion pounds into the refugee camps in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon to keep a lid on the as yet invisible crisis.

Then less than two weeks ago, though it seems like a month, Merkel declared that any Syrian who reached Germany could claim asylum. As you would expect there was a roar of adulation from the media, which would even have chuffed Hitler in the Sportsplatz. Ever since Cameron has been fighting a very brave rear-guard action, patiently explaining that accepting more and more refugees just isn’t the answer; we have to look after them in the region till they can return to their homes. Very brave because of the media reaction to this plainest of common sense. In short hysteria, Cameron is a heartless monster, racist Islamophobe, etc... Cue various lying lefties and degenerate ex-rockers offering their own homes to the “helpless (male, military-age, aggressive) refugees”.

Now there is an orgy of rape and intimidation going on in the refugee centres in Germany as this letter from a well-known women’s rights group attests. But you’d never know it from the German media. What they do report is “Mutter Merkel’s” threat that, “There will be no tolerance towards those who are not prepared to help”. Apparently she is a bit upset about any dissent whatsoever to her will. Sound familiar?

Back in June The Independent reported the very reassuring news that 98.3% of the 3.9 million Syrian refugees were safely bottled up in camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey. Now following Merkel’s whim they are on the move. And not only the Syrians as a report from the EU suggests that they only amount to one fifth of the migrants marauding across Europe.

Merkel, clearly still in the first flush of a liberal righteousnessgasm, said last Tuesday, “If we now have to start apologizing for showing a friendly face in response to emergency situations, then that’s not my country!” She’s got it back to front, of course. It’s the showing a friendly face to this invasion that will guarantee that it won’t be her country. Mutter Merkel has sold out everyone else’s future.  

So I am swelling with national pride in David Cameron. I know he is the not-particularly-bright-son-of-privilege; a creepy condescending liberal; the heir to Blair who leads the Conservative party under false pretences. Absolutely. But Merkel is making that very same Cameron look like Metternich bestriding Europe like a colossus.