Amid the international clamour over Ceuta, the Spanish city invaded by 60,000 migrants from Morocco, there has been a noticeable hush from one quarter: the Left.
There have been no rallies in solidarity with the Moroccans, no celebratory tweets from the Greens’ Zack Polanski. Labour backbenchers seldom silent on these matters can be heard on neither television nor radio.
It is as though socialists and other progressives recognise that events on the shores of the Mediterranean expose the grim reality that underlies their utopian worldview. Their dream, when put into practice, becomes a nightmare.
🇲🇦🇪🇸 A Spanish resident of Ceuta recorded the scenes he encountered on his way to work.
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