{"id":5362,"date":"2017-05-02T23:44:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2017-05-03T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T06:10:08","slug":"thursdays-election-rapid-response-from-the-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5362","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8217;s election: Rapid response from the Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some people saw our recent post on the local election as a personal attack on the candidates.<\/strong> Not so. The point was that \u00a0poor communication meant we would have to judge them on publicly available (i.e internet) \u00a0sources.<\/p>\n<p>Step forward <strong>William Wallace<\/strong>, the only candidate to react to our challenge, who has now shared his impressive election communications with us. The Blog bunker was obviously not on his circulation list. We are happy to publish it for the benefit of other voters who may not have seen it<\/p>\n<p>Other candidates are welcome to submit their election material up to midnight on Wednesday. <em>Good luck to all -Ed<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Election Communication from William Wallace, Conservative Candidate for Somerset County Council<\/strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5364\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=5364\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory2-e1493766077278.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1751,1771\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ENVY 4520&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1493769421&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;3&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tory2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory2-e1493766077278-1012x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5364\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory2-e1493766077278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1751\" height=\"1771\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory2-e1493766077278.jpg 1751w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory2-e1493766077278-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory2-e1493766077278-768x777.jpg 768w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory2-e1493766077278-1012x1024.jpg 1012w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory2-e1493766077278-1200x1214.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5363\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=5363\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2473,1722\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ENVY 4520&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1493769241&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tory1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory1-1024x713.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5363\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2473\" height=\"1722\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory1.jpg 2473w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory1-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory1-768x535.jpg 768w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory1-1024x713.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Tory1-1200x836.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5344\">Original article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people saw our recent post on the local election as a personal attack on the candidates. Not so. The point was that \u00a0poor communication meant we would have to judge them on publicly available (i.e internet) \u00a0sources. Step forward William Wallace, the only candidate to react to our challenge, who has now shared his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5362\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday&#8217;s election: Rapid response from the Conservatives&#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-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1ou","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}