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The levels of support for councils

Ben page asks if councils will be able to have a decent two-way conversation with the public as they juggle ever tighter spending decisions.

The chancellor, George Osborne got booed. Now he's used to this in the House of Commons, but perhaps not from the general public.

But this wasn't any general public – this was the audience at the London Paralympics.They included far more relatives of disabled people than found in an ordinary crowd.

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