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Originally Posted by Taf
Politicians in many other European countries are also twitching over the effect the migrant crisis will have on their share of the vote. And UKIP has shown them a way forward.
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Yes they are but still the Eurocrats plough on virtually regardless.
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Meanwhile back in Brexitland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37405598
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Theresa May has criticised the West's response to the migration crisis when she addresses world leaders later.
At a UN summit in New York, she called for a greater distinction between refugees and people trying to enter a country for economic reasons.
The PM also said refugees should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach and stressed that nations had a right to control their borders.
The UN says a record number of people have been displaced by conflict.
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Will UN refugee summit be enough?
It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year.
The UN summit for refugees and migrants is aiming to agree a "more humane and coordinated approach".
Mrs May warned "unprecedented levels of population movement" risk undermining public confidence in the economic case for legal migration.
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Undermined it already is I'm afraid. The abuse of the system is quite staggering and getting worse as the people traffickers refine their trade in human misery.
... and Merkel admits migration 'mistakes'.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted responsibility for her Christian Democratic party's "bitter defeat" in Berlin state elections.
She voiced regret over mistakes that contributed to last summer's migrant crisis in Germany. More than a million migrants reached Germany - a record.
"If I could, I would turn back time for many, many years, to prepare better," she told reporters.
Her CDU party can no longer run Berlin with the Social Democrats (SPD).
The centre-right CDU won 17.6% of the vote - its worst-ever result in Berlin.
Mrs Merkel conceded that her open-door policy towards migrants - embodied in her phrase "wir schaffen das" (we can manage it) - was a factor in the election. She has now distanced herself from that phrase, calling it "a sort of simplified motto".
She has been widely criticised in Germany for the policy, which was a humanitarian gesture faced with the desperate plight of migrants, many of them refugees from the war in Syria.
The right-wing, anti-migrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD) will enter the Berlin state parliament for the first time with 14% of the vote.
The AfD is now represented in 10 of Germany's 16 regional parliaments. Earlier this month it pushed the CDU into third place in the northern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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Funny how admitting mistakes seems usually to be turned into an argument for staying in office to put things right rather than resigning.