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Brexit has paralysed the system Channel 4 News SUBSCRIBE  680K The urge to leave and the desire to remain, to paraphrase one of our guests, they are both elements of the same country... sometimes even at war within ourselves. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe ) Peter Oborne and Melissa Kite join the programme. Peter Oborne today published an article that reads like a roadmap to Damascus: "Brexit has paralysed the system. It has turned Britain into a laughing stock. And it is certain to make us poorer and to lead to lower incomes and lost jobs. We Brexiteers would be wise to acknowledge all this." We asked him why he'd changed his mind about Brexit?

Former MEP Ashley Mote jailed over expenses fraud 13 July 2015 Share this with Facebook   Share this with Messenger   Share this with Twitter   Share this with Email   Share Image copyright PA Image caption Ashley Mote sat as a South East England MEP between 2004 and 2009 A former MEP who fraudulently claimed almost £500,000 in European Parliament expenses has been jailed. Ashley Mote, 79, was convicted of 12 charges relating to claims for payments to people he said were whistleblowers. The offences included fraud, acquiring criminal property and false accounting. Mote, who was elected on a UKIP ticket but sat as an independent MEP for South East England, was sentenced to five years at London's Southwark Crown Court. 'Greed and dishonesty' In May,  he was convicted  of four counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, three of false accounting, two of fraud, and one each of acquiring criminal property, conc...