The Labour Party has chosen its prospective parliamentary candidate for the Wells constituency, which includes Burnham-On-Sea.
Chris Inchley will represent Labour at the 2015 General Election and will be fighting the seat against incumbent Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt and the Conservative’s James Heappey.
Chris lives and works in Shepton Mallet, represents Shepton West ward as a Mendip District Councillor and is also a Town Councillor.
He was educated at local state schools and gained a City and Guilds in Amenity Horticulture at Radstock College. He was very proud to be a governor at his former comprehensive school, however he resigned in opposition to the change to an Academy.
Chris asserts that young people are not commodities so schools are not businesses, with the strong surviving and the weak closing. “The best education is where schools are at the heart of every community with young people, teachers and support staff working together,” he says.
Chris has been an elected councillor in Shepton Mallet for 19 years; five as a district councillor, two of which were as portfolio holder for community regeneration as an executive member of Mendip District Council.
He is currently the only District Labour Councillor in the Wells constituency and is an experienced campaigner who says he knows what it takes for Labour to win.
“At the last election people voted for change, yet they got an MP that has supported Conservative policies, supporting austerity with the chronic squeeze on living standards, a government that has failed to tackle powerful vested interests, failed to tackle energy firms that exploit their customers, failed to tackle bankers and those responsible for the banking crisis that caused such harm to our economy,” he claims.
