CHARLES HOWDEN
As examples of the sheer incompetence, corruption and arrogant disdain, two grim tales from the Daily Telegraph are hard to beat. Each on its own lays bare the decay of our governance: one of a ruthless Islamist killer being handed taxpayer’s money because his “rights” in jail were infringed, and the other of a Bulgarian band of thieves who plundered the welfare system of tens of millions, with only a pittance retrieved while they walk free. These are signs of a deep sickness, that of an anti-British ruling class, drunk on wokeness globalist ideology and bent on breaking the land’s back. Britain’s legal and welfare frameworks, meant to shield and foster fairness, have turned into tools of oppression, favouring foes over friends, aliens over kin, and fatuous fantasy over truth.
Begin with the case of Fuad Awale, a killer who has milked the taxpayer for £240,000 in payouts and law fees. Awale, a Somali, shot dead two young men in a Milton Keynes alley over a drug feud in 2011. Sentenced to 38 years, days after the cowardly slaying of Fusilier Lee Rigby by Islamist butchers, Awale and his mates seized a prison warder, pinned him to a chair, and held a knife to his throat. Awale snarled, “I’ve killed two people—I’ll kill you.” Their demand? Free Abu Qatada, the hate-spouting cleric, and Roshonara Choudhry, who knifed MP Stephen Timms. For this, Awale got six more years behind bars and was deemed an “extremist” fit only for a segregated unit, to curb his poison and protect the staff.
Yet, in a twist that mocks us all, Awale sued, claiming his lack of contact breached his “right to a private life” under Article 8 of the ECHR. He had demanded to be allowed to mix with one of Rigby’s killers, a plea rightly rejected. The High Court, however, accepted his plea which had, according to the fool of a judge “some weight and length.”. And to no one’s surprise, David Lammy, the fool of a Justice Secretary, chucked him £7,500 for his “hurt,” plus £234,000 to foot his lawyers’ bills. Taxpayers, bowed under the weight of feeding and housing such scum, now pay for their own noses to be rubbed in their merde.
This farce spotlights the legal system’s corrupt core. The ECHR, a post-war yoke run by globalist lackies, twists “human rights” into a shield for beasts against the herd they prey on. Awale’s segregation was obviously a protection for warders and a guard against his venom seeping into weaker souls. Yet the court prized his “private life” over the lives of those who guard our prisons. Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick rightly called it a “sick joke,” warning that it unlocks floods of like suits from extremists and endangers staff if such fiends can’t be penned alone. Lammy mumbles lies about law tweaks to block ECHR as a “barrier to national safety,” but deeds speak louder: he paid up and went with the human rights brigade. This is, of course, a pattern, reflecting the establishment’s creed, where “compassion” for killers trumps care for the common man, our laws bent to serve an abstract “humanity” that hates us.
And on to a Bulgarian gang allowed to plunder our absurd, corrupt welfare ‘system’ of unimaginable sums. Galina Nikolova, Tsvetka Todorova, Gyunesh Ali, Patritsia Paneva, and Stoyan Stoyanov ran a slick fraud ring, forging papers to claim Universal Credit for hordes of ghosts and kin back in Bulgaria. They peddled fake National Insurance slips for £80, sham tenancy deals for £60, and bogus job nods or healer notes besides. British prosecutors estimated their haul at £53 million, but Bulgarian lawmen say it was more like £200 million yearly, stolen from Britain’s taxpayers. Caught and jailed for only 25 years combined in 2024, they confessed all, but the clowns running our so-called justice system cocked up again, clawing back a mere £2 million.
Universal Credit, meant as a net for the needy, is low-hanging fruit for fraudsters. The gang “processed” claims for 2,400, some phantoms, their benefits funnelled to hidden pots, yet prosecutors couldn’t find them. The judge bemoaned “literally millions not recovered,” but bowed to what was “realistically traceable.” Why such meekness? The Proceeds of Crime Act binds hands, holding crooks liable only for what they “obtained,” not the full loss. And the culprits? All but Ali freed on bail, ripe for deportation—stalled till hearings end. Nikolova crowed post-ruling: “I can’t believe it. I get to go home. I am very excited.” Home to Bulgaria, where no doubt she will have no trouble finding the stolen millions, and British taxpayers will be fleeced to refill the pot.
This theft unmasks true corruption in the welfare system: not outright bribes but a sly rot where oversight fails and borders leak. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), tasked with policing the system, chased shadows while millions bled out. Why no unrelenting hunt for overseas hoards? Why let fraud bloom unchecked for five years? Why indeed: Britain’s open arms to migrants, even crook and killers, under woke banners of “diversity” and “inclusion.” These Bulgarians, EU ‘kin’ till Brexit, easily exploited the system while British taxpayers are treated as criminals. The establishment’s disdain for borders feeds this: welfare as a global right. Incompetence reigns: probes drag on, achieving nothing, leaving taxpayers fleeced. Police in Bulgaria knew the scale, yet British cops couldn’t grasp it.
Weave these threads, and the full stink of the corruption is appalling. Britain’s establishment, from Whitehall to the bench, reeks of it, together with anti-British zeal. In Awale’s case we again see legal malevolence prizing terrorist “rights” over British safety. The ECHR lets killers game the courts, costing fortunes in gold and court time. Corruption lurks in the payouts: lawyers fatten on the teat, while ministers like Lammy collude, reviewing “frameworks” instead of slashing costs. The Bulgarian burglary spotlights bungling oversight and globalist blind eyes: porous borders, fraud unchecked, recovery feeble, barely attempted. The gang’s light payback mocks justice, their quick release insults the taxpayer. Together, these cases paint an establishment intent on Britain’s fall, pampering foes while the British people bear the brunt.
Delve deeper into the incompetence: judges twist ECHR to absurd ends: Awale’s “severe depression” from solitude trumps the terror he sows. Prison rules require reviews of segregation, yet managers bungled them, “opaque,” as Awale’s briefs crowed. Racist inmates in the unit? A trump card but presented without evidence, yet the court swallowed it. Warders, brave souls facing daily peril, now fear to do their job. Jenrick’s call for emergency laws, rich from a Tory, have merit: without them, safety crumbles. Lammy’s “active consideration” is mere wind; the terror watchdog’s review urges appeals and rewrites, yet nothing will be done.
Welfare’s blunders mirror this: DWP let claims stack unchecked, forgeries flourish. Prosecutors admitted the “business-like” fraud ran rampant yet clawed back crumbs. Why no crypto cracks or global chases? Inept tools or fear of “rights” suits from abroad pointing to rot higher up: ministers tout welfare as compassionate, yet let it bleed, the taxpayer that is. The parasitocracy’s woke lens sees migrants as victims, not vultures, blinding them to the harm they do.
Corruption is the word. In Awale’s case, the £234,000 legal bill swells the human rights industry’s purse, lawyers, often of the same class, thrive on such fights. Lammy contested the sum, he claims, but paid anyway. Graft need not be bags of gold; it is favours, nods, a system where the powerful shield each other. The ECHR’s grip ensures this: Britain pays Strasbourg dues, her judges echoing globalist tunes. In welfare, corruption hides in lax enforcement: DWP chiefs overlook leaks till too late. The gang shipped cash abroad, admitted it, but faced no real reckoning.
These cases, cry for reckoning. Awale’s payout and the gang’s thefts mock justice and spotlight a system rigged against Britain. Incompetence reigns in bungled oversight, corruption in favoured foes, woke globalism in yielded sovereignty. The anti-British elite, intent on this path, hasten ruin—unless the folk rise to reclaim their land.





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