I am old enough to remember when Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s leftist prime minister, was telling everyone that the massive influx into the Spanish city of Ceuta at the end of July was (essentially) a one-day wonder. Just about everybody had gone back to Morocco. No biggie.
People who were actually in Ceuta kept insisting otherwise, but they were probably “far right” or something. And so, in an editorial published on August 4, the Financial Times, a paper that can usually be relied upon to parrot the euro-technocratic line, declared that “none of the 72,000 [illegal migrants] have made it [to Spain]; all but 2,000 have returned to Morocco.”
Neither statement was true.
And now, Jim Lawley, writing in The Spectator:
Government sources now accept that around 20,000 were still in Ceuta after July 30; last week Ángel Víctor Torres, the minister in charge of the crisis, put the current figure at around 18,000.
Sánchez is a strong advocate of online censorship.
I wonder why.