{"id":460,"date":"2011-04-19T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2011-05-07T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T09:42:26","slug":"runners-and-riders-in-the-district-election-stakes-%e2%80%93-5-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Runners and Riders in the District Election stakes \u2013 5 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are just over two weeks away from the District Council elections AND the referendum on Alternative Voting.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe two current Blackmoor Vale councilors, Tim Inglefield and William Wallace are standing again, in a five-candidate field. Remember \u2013 every voter has two votes, so don\u2019t waste the second one.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 Blackmoor Vale candidates are:<br \/>\nRichard\u00a0 CRABB\u00a0 Lib Dem (lives over the border in Sherborne)<br \/>\nTim INGLEFIELD Conservative (present incumbent, lives Horsington)<br \/>\nDavid NICHOLS\u00a0 Independent (lives Henstridge)<br \/>\nJo PENBERTHY\u00a0 Labour (lives Cucklington)<br \/>\nWilliam WALLACE Conservative (present incumbent, also a County Councillor,\u00a0lives Yenston)<\/p>\n<p>South Somerset District council has 60 Councillors. It is currently controlled by the Lib Dems, with 37 seats, against the Conservatives 17, and 6 independents.<\/p>\n<p>The only clear water between the main parties\u00a0 seems to be\u00a0 <a title=\"Election News: A look at the council\u2019s finances\" href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=455\" target=\"_blank\">finance<\/a>, and<a title=\"Wincanton Window - Car parking charges\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wincantonwindow.co.uk\/what-parking-charges.htm?jneef9c0d0=2#jotnaveef9c0d036d6b7aa26e62ce2c229f302\"> car parking <\/a>in market towns like Wincanton. The LibDems want to introduce charges, the Conservatives do not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are just over two weeks away from the District Council elections AND the referendum on Alternative Voting. The two current Blackmoor Vale councilors, Tim Inglefield and William Wallace are standing again, in a five-candidate field. Remember \u2013 every voter has two votes, so don\u2019t waste the second one. The\u00a0 Blackmoor Vale candidates are: Richard\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Runners and Riders in the District Election stakes \u2013 5 May&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-7q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}