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Scrounging foreigners v. affordable homes for real Londoners

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In one sense I can see what the Tories want to do: end the nonsense of giving taxpayer money to scroungers who are too work-shy to get a job.

In thousands of cases we subsidise, with obscene amounts of our money, those who have arrived in the [...]

Never mind massive credit fraud – how did Chinese gang get benefits and a London council flat?

"Which flat you want? Nummer 33 or Nummer 45? You want rice wi' dat?"

Apart from the fact that they ran a large credit card fraud operation which spread across the world – bad enough in itself – how on EARTH did a gang of illegal Chinese immigrants get free benefit handouts and a [...]