New launch, new launch! We could have just talked about our new votes platform, but it was much more interesting to explore a bit of history, and research into how MPs and the public use TheyWorkForYou. So, together with Dr Ben Worthy, Alex and Julia, that’s what we did.

Further information

• Find the TheyWorkForYou Votes platform here.
• Here’s a blog post about its launch.
• And here’s the same launch event that you hear in this episode of the podcast, only in video form.
• If you’d like to help us do more of this kind of work, please donate to mySociety.
• Sign up for the Repowering Democracy newsletter.
• How to help us gather information on how MPs are voting on the End of Life Bill.
• Ben’s research can be found on his website Who’s Watching Westminster.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:00 Hello again. I’m Myf, Communications Manager at mySociety. We recently launched a new vote information platform, votes.theyworkforyou.com, and this is the first step towards making it much easier to understand the context around how your own MP voted – and also, if you’re a specialist, you’ll find lots of new tools and data that you can use.

Myf Nixon 0:23 We had an online launch event for this, and you can listen to that right now. As well as Alex getting into the more technical details, we’ll first of all hear Julia talking about some of the milestones in TheyWorkForYou’s history, and Dr Ben Worthy sharing some of his fascinating research on how MPs and the general public have, through history, used voting records.

Myf Nixon 0:47 I’ll put the links in our show notes to everything that gets mentioned in the recording. And also, if you’d rather watch this than listen to it, you can do just that on the mySociety site. So again, I’ll make sure that that link is in the show notes.

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