As the forks are straight, it probably wouldn't affect the steering of the bike too much. Although, if you look at the crown of the fork, it is angled slightly so that it would move the tire's contact point forward (or in this case backwards) compared to a truly straight fork. So the wheel is probably about an inch further back than it should be. Whether this will affect the handling of the bike is another question.
The angling of the fork crown will have the effect of setting the front wheel's axle line behind the steering axis rather than ahead, which I would imagine would make the bike feel horribly twitchy and/or like riding on an over-inflated/solid tyre.
The other issue is cable routing. The cable is turning 90 degrees in to the noodle over a very short area, with no outer cable to guide it, which would probably cause a lot of friction in the cable, and possibly cause the brakes to not operate properly, or perhaps take a while to return.
Totally agree here, this should have been the giveaway to the nurk in the shop it was purchased from, one would have thought
Mind you, the default brake setup herabouts seems to be the 'unhooked brake pipe' style, where the 90 degree brake pipe which connects the outer cable to the cable stop on the caliper is unhooked, normally because the wheel is so far out of true it looks like a banana or has one or more failed spokes which gives the same end effect!
