Secret expenses: EU ruling on MEPs’ cash is a scandal

It is difficult to believe that the politicians we imagine, in the widest sweep of the term, to be social democrats are capable of sustaining that system, one that created more equality, more wealth, more tolerance, and a longer-lasting peace than any other political credo in history.

Familiarity has bred contempt for the reality that social democracy must be nourished and be seen to be fair and honest, if it is to survive.