[hinckley buzzard]

Turkey is using the "refugee" crisis as leverage against the EU, coercing agreement to Turkish demands. Basically it is "Let us in and pay up, we'll take the rabble off your hands. If not, we open the sluice gates even wider and you deal with it."

EU is so fractured that they may not be able to resist. Which would mean the end of Europe even sooner.

[erkelly]

I understand the monarchy has great latent power; it can dissolve parliament and take the reins of govt in its own hands until a new parliament is be elected, which will not occur until the monarchy says so. I could be wrong about this of course, but I am fairly sure I am correct about this. Maybe we will see this happen; these are interesting times.