Comments on: MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2009/05/mps-expenses-row-theres-tough-economic-questions-in-this/ Policy news and comment from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Thu, 24 May 2012 10:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this | called2account http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2009/05/mps-expenses-row-theres-tough-economic-questions-in-this/comment-page-1/#comment-2531 MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this | called2account Sun, 31 May 2009 22:00:10 +0000 http://www.touchstoneblog.org.uk/?p=2831#comment-2531 [...] MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this | ToUChstone blog: A public policy b.... As David Marquand put it eloquently in a Guardian piece on Tuesday: what lies behind much of the public anger [about MP's expenses] is the collapse of the post-war social contract whereby citizens offered the state their loyalty in return for jobs, rising living standards and social protection.  I’m afraid it will take a lot more than fixed term parliaments to re-build that contract. [...] [...] MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this | ToUChstone blog: A public policy b…. As David Marquand put it eloquently in a Guardian piece on Tuesday: what lies behind much of the public anger [about MP's expenses] is the collapse of the post-war social contract whereby citizens offered the state their loyalty in return for jobs, rising living standards and social protection.  I’m afraid it will take a lot more than fixed term parliaments to re-build that contract. [...]

]]> By: Tax Research UK » MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2009/05/mps-expenses-row-theres-tough-economic-questions-in-this/comment-page-1/#comment-2530 Tax Research UK » MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this Sun, 31 May 2009 18:45:47 +0000 http://www.touchstoneblog.org.uk/?p=2831#comment-2530 [...] MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this | ToUChstone blog: A public policy b.... As David Marquand put it eloquently in a Guardian piece on Tuesday: what lies behind much of the public anger [about MP's expenses] is the collapse of the post-war social contract whereby citizens offered the state their loyalty in return for jobs, rising living standards and social protection.  I’m afraid it will take a lot more than fixed term parliaments to re-build that contract. [...] [...] MPs’ Expenses Row: There’s tough economic questions in this | ToUChstone blog: A public policy b…. As David Marquand put it eloquently in a Guardian piece on Tuesday: what lies behind much of the public anger [about MP's expenses] is the collapse of the post-war social contract whereby citizens offered the state their loyalty in return for jobs, rising living standards and social protection.  I’m afraid it will take a lot more than fixed term parliaments to re-build that contract. [...]

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