This week a government-ordered inspection report accused the council of being in collective denial about the scale and extent of its failings.
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We have all been in a kind of collective denial and are waking up, as if from a trance, and hearing the birds sing.
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The regulator said a 'culture of optimism' had contributed to 'a collective denial' over the impact of the credit crisis.
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