Ministers have blown almost £1billion axing an army of bureaucrats - only to rehire the same huge number.
Government departments have cut almost 15,000 civil servants in the last three years, according to figures released by Parliament.
Because of the generous redundancy packages given to Whitehall officials, the average payout was £60,000 - a total cost to the public purse of
£882million.
But despite the cull of Government waste, it can be revealed that ministries are taking on almost as many staff as they have ditched.
Figures from just five departments - including the Home Office and Department of Health - show that about 5,000 permanent, temporary and agency staff have been taken on.
If this is extended across all Government departments, the number of new staff will be around 15,000.
Jacqui Smith has been panicked into tightening the rules which led to foreigners receiving an all-time record number of work permits as Britain slid into recession last year.
The Home Secretary is expected to announce tomorrow that the Government is ‘raising the bar’ on the new points-based immigration system for non-EU nationals.
The move is likely to cut the number of people migrating to Britain under the work permit system by more than 12 per cent.
Her problem is the numbers already here, plus the fact she can not remove EU citizens under current laws, plus this government has a piss poor record in catching illegal workers.
Up to 400,000 families could lose their homes as the recession drives unemployment to unprecedented rates, a leading economist has warned.
Repossessions could exceed the heights reached during the property crash of the early 1990s amid a ‘huge spike’ in defaults, according to respected economics consultancy Fathom.
The crisis will be triggered by a surge in unemployment to four million, or 13 per cent of the workforce, according to Danny Gabay, a former Bank of England economist.
The multicultural utopia created by a liberal open door policy, allowinfg in almost unlimited numbers of uncivilized barbarians from third world dusty toilet nations.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the murder of a teenager who was one of two knifed to death in London, police said today.
Michael Wright was found with fatal stab wounds outside a train station in an apparent gang killing on Thursday.
The Metropolitan Police said a 16-year-old suspect was in custody at an east London police station.
The forced added that a woman in her 30s had also been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and was in custody.
Big Brother CCTV cameras are to be fitted inside shops and supermarkets on the orders of the state to keep track on anybody buying alcohol.Car crash society - a couple arrest in Venezuela over cocaine appeared on chavscum tv program Jeremy Kyle.
A law is being quietly pushed through Parliament giving councils the power to order licensed premises to fit the surveillance cameras. Pubs will also be covered.
The footage of people innocently buying a bottle of wine in a shop or a pint of beer in a bar must be stored for at least 60 days, and be handed over to the police on demand.
...Paul and Laura Makin who have been arrested in Venezuela for allegedly trying to smuggle three suitcases full of cocaine to Britain.
The TV still is from an episode of daytime talk show The Jeremy Kyle Show, titled 'Husband, how can our family survive your extreme anger?'. The episode was broadcast in October 2006.
Mr Makin and Mrs Makin, from Liverpool, were detained by police at Porlamar airport on the holiday island of Margarita as they tried to board a flight to London on Monday.
No doubt when after doing some serious jail time they will be on Mr Kyles show again in a special episode entitled "My hell in a Venezuelan prison!"...
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