Front from left - Cllr Gill Slocombe (stripy top), Deputy Leader of Sedgemoor District Council; Cllr Adam Dance from South Somerset District Council; Cllr Ros Wyke, Leader of Mendip District Council and the leader of Somerset West and Taunton, Cllr Federica Smith-Roberts were joined by others in a silent protest on Thursday, against Somerset County Council’s refusal to take part in the Advisory Poll on Options for Change in Local Government in Somerset.