Local media response to the Comprehensive Spending Review

For those of you who are interested there's an article in This is Somerset about the Cabinet Member for Enironment at SCC, Anthony Trollope-Bellew, resigning.  He's open about the reasons and about how irresponsible the cuts to the highways budget are.  So congratulations to Ken Maddock for doing something so daft he's managed to get me agreeing with Anthony Trollope-Bellew.  

This is Somerset: http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/news/Cuts-willlead-road-deaths/article-2788998-detail/article.html

Also a piece in BBC Somerset.  Of note two other councillors seem to have gone as well (Stephen Martin-Scott & William Wallace).  Not sure as to the reasons but Ken Maddock is trying to spin it as a savings decision, with it leaving just five cabinet members left. There is more to it and may indicate some fracturing in the Tory group.
 

BBC Somerset: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-11597481

Some more in the County Gazette, which I think is more than went in yesterday's print edition.  The question I'd ask is where are the Lib Dems? Do they even have an opinion on this as I haven't seen a remark/quote from them in weeks?

    

County Gazette: http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/8469231.Spending_review___more_on_Somerset_County_Council_s_savage_cuts/