A benefits cheat who stole £50k getting a job at the DWP exposes chaos & feebleness of soft-touch Britain

Soft-touch UK

THE chaos and feebleness of soft-touch Britain has seldom been amended exposed than by the astonishing lawsuit of crook Chido Vincent.

A benefits cheat who overstayed his visa successful 2007 and utilized a fake missive to assertion helium had a close to enactment here.

Who scammed the payer retired of £50,000 successful handouts and got jailed.

And who, adjacent aft that, ended up moving astatine the DWP processing Universal Credit claims.

Vincent should person been deported to Nigeria years ago, erstwhile helium overstayed oregon aft his prison stretch. But no.

He blithely applied for a authorities occupation and got it due to the fact that DWP civilian servants failed to spot his condemnation for stealing from their ain department.

The antheral has lied, cheated and stolen from the nationalist purse passim his years here.

And yet we look incapable oregon unwilling to footwear him out.

Small wonderment our immigration numbers are retired of control.

Brussels doubt

THE UK, Keir Starmer says, “is undeniably stronger erstwhile it works successful lockstep with its closest planetary partners”.

He means Brussels, of course.

But we are nary longer meant to enactment successful “lockstep” with the EU.

That ended with the ballot successful 2016.

And that is not what independency means.

The information the PM uses the connection truthful glibly should interest those who fearfulness Brexit is not harmless nether him.

Today helium is successful Brussels, limbering up possibly to hold a “youth mobility” scheme.

That’s escaped question of sorts — age-limited, possibly time-limited.

What precisely it looks similar whitethorn beryllium connected which Starmer turns up:

The diehard Europhile who championed the failed “People’s Vote” to overturn Brexit, and aboriginal promised alternatively to “defend escaped question arsenic we permission the EU”.

Or the supposedly hard-nosed Brexit realist who lone past week had “no plans” for a younker mobility scheme.

Will helium motion thing binding america much intimately to the EU?

He should beryllium precise wary of doing so.

Millions of Leavers who lent Labour their ballot successful July are watching.

Fags snag

SMOKING has plummeted to a grounds low. Excellent. But there’s an evident problem.

The Government has chosen THIS infinitesimal for a foolish caller warfare connected ­ciggies, outdoors this time, which could bankrupt thousands of pubs.

An economically damaging crackdown, closing galore assemblage hubs . . . erstwhile the wont is dying retired anyway.

We cognize the nationalist health nanny-state bores are everlastingly bending ­Labour’s ears implicit fags, booze and grub they disapprove of.

Ignore them.

Don’t wreck pubs and dump barroom unit connected the dole to combat a warfare already each but won.