Wells

	12/05/2017	The Guardian 151.101.192.67
Somerset: secret Lib Dem voters could give Theresa May a fight https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/11/somerset-secret-lib-dem-voters-could-give-theresa-may-a-fight Excerpt: As comfortable as Heappey?s majority seems, the Tories are not as confident as they might be. Their expectations of retaining the seat suffered a blow at last week?s local authority elections, when Munt took the seat of the Conservative county council leader John Osman in the city of Wells by 95 votes. If they weren?t taking the fight seriously before, the Tories are now. Their campaign in Wells is bound to be complicated, for this constituency is a sprawling, diverse one. Its stretch of coastline includes sandy beaches, holiday parks and the resort of Burnham-on-Sea. Further east there is hugely varied countryside, including the Cheddar Gorge, the Mendip hills and part of the Somerset Levels. ... Munt, too, is echoing Farron by making the case that May is bound to be PM, so her constituents should vote for a party that will form an effective opposition ('This is not North Korea,' is one of her lines) and for the person that will make the best local MP. ... By and large, though, while the area voted to leave the EU, few people immediately bring up Brexit when asked what issues bother them. They talk about poor mobile phone signals, the patchiness of broadband, the lorries that trundle to the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant site from the quarries in Cheddar, the possibility of fracking in the Mendips, the closure of banks in Glastonbury, schools funding, GP waiting times, cuts to bus services, plans to extend a traffic-free path along the old Strawberry Line rail track route.
	05/05/2017	JC 162.23.111.62
Former Liberal Democrat MP Tessa Munt got herself elected to local council, defeating Conservative council leader John Osman. This is while the Conservative Party took 35 out of 55 seats (gain of 6) to retain control of Somerset County Council with an increased majority. However the local result generally does not bold well for Lib Dem. Lib Dem retained only 12 of its 18 seats. Given UKIP's collapse, it is even more difficult for Munt to make up the 13-point gap. If they are going to regain any seat, it will likely be Yeovil, not this one.
	27/04/2017	Jack Cox 24.212.227.58
13 percent Tory victory here last time. They'll hold it easily.