Cameron accused of using fear campaign

The British Prime Minister David Cameron warned on Monday that thousands of refugees may enter Britain if it leaves the European Union. 

Cameron’s position that has been expressed through a spokesman is already being described by the critics as a "campaign of fear" to try to keep voters in the EU. 

Cameron’s spokesman has further warned that leaving the bloc could harm an agreement with France which allows British border guards to make immigration checks there. 

"We have that relationship with the French partly because we are both partners in the EU. Should we leave the EU there is no guarantee that we would see those controls continuing," Reuters has quoted the spokesman as saying.

"If those controls didn't continue then as we know there are thousands of people there, who are there specifically because they want to come to the UK, who would then come to the UK ... there would be nothing to stop thousands of people crossing the Channel overnight." 

Cameron has thrown his weight behind a plan by European Council President Donald Tusk to keep Britain in the 28-member bloc. He has emphasized that if agreed by other EU leaders, he would have got the best deal for Britain and would campaign to stay in.

Many in his own ruling Conservative Party have accused Cameron of refusing to seriously entertain a departure from the European Union, and those campaigning to leave said the latest warning had been choreographed to provoke fear in voters.

Asked whether Cameron had launched 'project fear', his spokesman said the leader was raising a genuine concern, especially since voters have repeatedly said they wanted him to tackle rising migration in the EU renegotiation.

Hafsa Kara-Mustapha, a UK-based journalist and political commentator, has told Press TV that the Cameron’s remarks show the policy of the British government toward the refugee crisis has already failed.

This, Kara-Mustapha said, is because Britain together with certain other European countries are responsible for what triggered the current refugee crisis in the first place.

“The British government is actually stuck because it has been responsible for the influx of the refugees both in bombing Libya, destroying Iraq and obviously supporting various terror outsets that travel to Syria to remove Bashar Assad,” she told Press TV’s UK Desk in an exclusive interview.

“The consequences of this policy are coming back basically to haunt David Cameron and each party … is actually trying to escape the refugees in a bid to distract … their role in the destruction of the Middle East that has caused this refugee crisis in the first place,” emphasized Kara-Mustapha. 

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