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WHITEHALL

Soapbox

Harry Phibbs believes cutting councillor allowances and chief executive pay are important gestures.

Each day brings more news of councils cutting frontline services, while blaming it on communities secretary, Eric Pickles. 

As the author Lewis Carroll put it in his classic Alice Through The Looking Glass... ‘"I weep for you," the Walrus said: "I deeply sympathise." With sobs and tears he sorted out those [oysters] of the largest size.'

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