{"id":1997,"date":"2015-04-27T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:08","slug":"uk-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/04\/27\/uk-election\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fantasy Front bench<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who would be your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyfrontbench.com\/\">fantasy front bench<\/a> for the UK government?<br \/>\nThis fun tool has been created with the support of mySociety and Joseph Rowntree Trust using data from <em>Public Whip <\/em>and<em> They Work For You.\u00a0 <\/em>It encourages voters to deepen their knowledge of the work of politicians by providing them with information on individual MP voting records on specific issues.<\/p>\n<p><em>Other recommended voter education tools for 2015 include:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/democraticdashboard.com\/\">Democratic dashboard<\/a> &#8211; find out the facts and figures about local constituencies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforpolicies.org.uk\/\">Vote for policies\u00a0 not personalities<\/a>. \u2013 supported by the Joseph Rowntree Trust.\u00a0 Encourages voters to examine the content of the manifestos<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whogetsmyvoteuk.com\/region_select.php\">Who gets my vote<\/a> from Queen Mary College.\u00a0 Answer the questions to find out your party<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positiondial.com\/welcome\">Position dial<\/a> produced in collaboration with the University of Westminster enables users\u00a0to compare their own viewpoint with party policies using a online dial<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.votematch.org\/\">Vote match<\/a> from Unlock Democracy.\u00a0 Take the quiz and in under 5 minutes find out who you should vote for<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy Front bench Who would be your fantasy front bench for the UK government? This fun tool has been created with the support of mySociety and Joseph Rowntree Trust using data from Public Whip and They Work For You.\u00a0 It encourages voters to deepen their knowledge of the work of politicians by providing them with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41,115,242,93],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}