• Ed Miliband links riots to banking and expenses scandals | guardian.co.uk #ukriots
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/aug/12/ed-miliband-links-riots-scandals?CMP=twt_gu

    Ed Miliband has said Labour failed to “rebuild the ethic of our country” in its 13 years in government as he linked the looting and rioting of recent days to the “irresponsibility” of MPs’ expenses, the banking crisis and phone hacking.

    Attacking a “me-first” culture in which people had lost their sense of right and wrong, the Labour leader said: "There is an issue which went to all our souls – this is an issue not just about the responsibility and irresponsibility we saw on the streets of Tottenham. It’s about irresponsibility wherever we find it in our society.

    “We’ve seen in the past few years MPs’ expenses, what happened in the banks, what happened with phone hacking.”