On 16 November 2012 09:42, Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is worth bigging up Tim Green who took time from his own > life to build http://www.yournextpcc.com to plug at least some of the > gap.
Certainly: Big hurrahs for Tim! Tim was also one of the reasons that YourNextMP.com worked for the 2010 general election. One of the motivations for that site was that for some parties a lack of information was a benefit. My hunch was that people voted for the BNP because they didn't like the other parties, rather than because they liked the BNP. By shining a light on them and making the individual candidates more that just a name next to the party on the ballot I hoped that people would dig deeper and make a more informed choice. No idea if it worked, I hope it did. I still wonder if in some elections the best campaigning strategy is to stay at home and rely on unthinking party loyalty? In some cases saying anything will just lose you votes. Obviously I don't like this. The next time there is an election we should strive to make information readily available as we've been doing. But we should also take some time to make it clear where it is not available, where candidates are hiding? Staying at home should be the worst thing a candidate can do - if they don't campaign there should be a way to call them out on it. Anyhoo, good work Tim! Cheers, Edmund. _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
