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  "textContent": "The outcome of the Birmingham elections encapsulates the situation across Britain: a cash-strapped council with a paralysed, fractured leadership, clashing with a public that has rejected the status quo. Includes an update on the Birmingham bin strike.\n\nThe post Birmingham City Council: Political paralysis ahead as crisis deepens appeared first on The Communist.",
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