I agree with to a certain extent Francis but I think it should be more of an information site rather than a campaigning one.
It should be a new site and maybe you could run a test during the next by election to get it ready for the next general election. I am not a member of any party as once I used to work in a politically sensitive job so I don't take part in local parties but I could be wrong my understanding is that with the Liberal Democrats and Labour parties that it is the members who vote and they are likely to be more knowledgeable but with the Conservatives it is anyone who is eligible can vote. I was unable to attend the last primary but the information on the candidates was lacking and the vast majority of people who attended were not members of the party so they had no time to gather any information. Support solar power in the developing world. http://www.everyclick.com/solaraid http://www.solar-aid.org/ ________________________________ From: Francis Irving <[email protected]> To: "mySociety public, general purpose discussion list" <[email protected]> Cc: - <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, 10 April, 2010 13:07:54 Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] Conservative Primaries Great idea Abdul. Julian Todd has been saying similar things, and we reckon something like the following would fit the bill: After the Election, I would like somebody (it would fit well with YourNextMP or DemocracyClub, or could be a new project) to track candidate selection for all parties on an ongoing basis. The site would feature: * A page for each local party, with information about how it selects candidates, who is up for nomination, what stage it is at, who has been selected, deselected etc. * All the data obviously structured, with history etc. Would have to be user submitted data (YourNextMP style). If there are any votes, how many people voted which way, how many attended the meeting etc. * Email alerts to give you updates about parties in your constituency, e.g. when there are public selection meetings, or when it might be worth joining a party in order to influence selection. * A way of sharing information about people running to be PPCs. Basically a YourNextMP type set of information on them. * A measure of how democratic the process is for each party (locally and on average nationally). Other national party statistics aggregated from the local party info. * Possibly could be a campaigning site, with a way of asking / lobbying for open primaries, or other improvements to candidate selection processes. * Possibly could be a "local party" scrutiny site - so could have info other than about selection, such as number of local party members, local party donations and so on. What Voter Power (http://www.voterpower.org.uk/) reminds us, is that most people don't get a vote for their MP. The MP is preordained, based on the process the party uses to select the candidate. A way of improving democracy would be to have more scrutiny of the candidate selection process. Francis On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 07:18:47PM +0000, Abdul Hai wrote: > I have been thinking about this for sometime and I was thinking > wouldn't be a good idea to have a site for all Conservative > Primaries for the next election. Before people starting making > comments I would like to say that even though I am Conservative > supporter it would be useful for non Conservatives as the Primaries > are open to the general public who live in the area even if they are > not natural supporters. > > We had one in my local area and it would have been useful for people > to have a site that gave information. I know a lot of people who > went there are not Tory voters. _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
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