{"id":16790,"date":"2016-06-17T00:54:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/councils-or-company-bosses-those-in-power-have-a-duty-of-stewardship-letters-from-paul-nicolson-and-les-bright\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T00:58:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:58:54","slug":"councils-or-company-bosses-those-in-power-have-a-duty-of-stewardship-letters-from-paul-nicolson-and-les-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/councils-or-company-bosses-those-in-power-have-a-duty-of-stewardship-letters-from-paul-nicolson-and-les-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Councils or company bosses, those in power have a duty of stewardship | Letters from Paul Nicolson and Les Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Related: More freeloaders than free market. How Britain bails out the business chiefs | Aditya Chakrabortty Aditya Chakrabortty (Opinion, 14 June) compared my appearance before a Tottenham magistrate [for refusing to pay council tax in protest against cuts to social security] with Philip Green\u2019s appearance before MPs. It is an apt comparison. In both cases the authorities failed to take steps to prevent the kind of\u00a0disasters facing the pensioners of BHS or the benefit claimants of the London borough of Haringey. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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