Weird Granny Slater wrote: In fact asylum applications have dropped considerably and Merkel has toughened deportation rules.
Germany says 280,000 asylum seekers arrived there in 2016, a drop of more than 600,000 on the previous year.
Yup. I'm sure electorate were totally impressed that last year's applications had dropped considerably (sic) to just over a quarter of a million. (Insert emoji for sarcasm here)
In passing I note that Merkel got 32.5% of vote whereas Theresa May
only got 42.3% of vote.