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| Steven Lambert |
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Liberal Democrat (Aylesbury) |
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A great aggregator site! Thank you for making things much more simple! |
| Jean Samuel |
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Labour (Canterbury) |
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All groups participating should be required to include a comments box with their commitment / pledges / questions as it is rare to agree 100% with everything and readers could take away too black and white an impression e.g. you end up saying No to a question because you would not want be held later to one element of it that you could not agree to, but actually you agree with a good part of it. |
| Ben Duncan |
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Green (Brighton, Kemptown) |
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Digital campaigning becomes a little more important at every election. I think it amazing that the TV debates have just come on stream as newer technologies are taking over from the medium of TV! Personally I think the political exchange will have a greater long-term impact. I look forward to using it if I stand in a future election. |
| Mark Fletcher |
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Green (Devizes) |
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Excellent |
| Ian Wright |
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Green (Truro and Falmouth) |
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Good idea Good luck |
| Hazel Dawe |
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Green (Tunbridge Wells) |
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Good idea keep up the good work. |
| Steve Churchman |
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Liberal Democrat (Dwyfor Meirionnydd) |
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Good idea, liked it - please do it again. |
| Jim Craig |
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Green (Halton) |
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Great idea for a web service and well implemented thanks guys! |
| Graham Lee |
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Green (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) |
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Hopefully if you are able to more widely disseminate the pledges it would reduce the very large number of emails I was getting from individuals all sending the same stock email asking me to either sign up or alternatively asking the same questions that are covered in the pledges. |
| Paul Brown |
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Green (Mid Sussex) |
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I am dubious about the usefulness of political exchange in the context of our current British political system. At the end of the day the undertakings given and views expressed by individual candidiates, whilst giving potential voters a flavour of their views on current issues and response to pressure groups, have no direct route to influence the political agenda - determined by the cabinet and presented in the queens speech. In my view the only issue is constitutional reform. With that on line e-activist and similar fora may be useful in determining the political agenda in the future. I wish you well. |
| Philip Latham |
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Liberal Democrat (Stockton North) |
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I am not sure how well known your service is. If it can be expanded to help voters connect with policticians that would be providing a great service. |
| David Drew |
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Labour (Stroud) |
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I do have concerns about reducing often extremely complex issues to simple yes/no responses and am worried that this is not either helpful or that it produces an accurate response. |
| Elizabeth Simpson |
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Liberal Democrat (Tonbridge and Malling) |
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I thought it was really good - would probably benefit from being more widely publicised. |
| Dilys Cluer |
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Green (Scarborough and Whitby) |
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It was a useful way of publicising my support for various organisations. |
| Sharon Carr-Brown |
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Labour (Bournemouth West) |
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It was useful to be able to put all these things in one place. |
| Cherry Allan |
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Green (South West Surrey) |
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Out of all of the pledge systems I encountered, I think this was the best. I particularly liked the way it informed constituents who were interested in a single issue wholesale once I'd posted a response (although see above for my comment on 'thank you' notes). It also made me aware of invitations to endorse other pledges etc - i.e. those to which no constituent had alerted me to. It would be helpful if this system was in operation for local elections too. |
| Nic Best |
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Green (Wansbeck) |
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really good idea - needs more development and more particularly recognition. Are you going to keep it going between elections? |
| Justine Hall |
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Green (Manchester, Gorton) |
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Really good tool to allow candidates and voters to communicate more effectively - it was great to get emails from constituents to say thanks for supporting pledges/campaigns I'd supported on Political Exchange |
| Hazel Thorpe |
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Liberal Democrat (Worthing West) |
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Sceptical about it at first , but once reassured it was not run by 'vested interests' very happy with it, perhaps next time greater clarity about the host? |
| Margaret Park |
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SNP (Glasgow North West) |
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Thank you for the opportunity as a candidate to utilise such a useful portal |
| Charles Graham |
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Green (Bridgwater and West Somerset) |
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The difference between this campaign and the one 5 years ago, is the use of email to ask candidates about their policies on particular issues. as the Green Party candidate for Bridgwater & West Somerset, was unprepared for the number of emails received and unable to find time (I have to work as well!!) to reply to them all individually. Would like to see some recognition, that people should make, at least some attempt, to find out about some of the parties' policies themselves. I know this is not always possible, but some of us do not have the time, resources or the money to take time off work, to devote to increasing email responses. I had 273 emails on various topics!! Your system, does favour those local parties that have sufficient resources to fruitfully engage with the process, but works against those candidates that don't. |
| Peter Krakowiak |
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Green |
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The Political Exchange website certainly helped in making a candidate's position clear on a number of issues. This also helped reduce the volume of e-mail requests from voters requesting a canidate's views on a particular isssue. |
| Hilary Charles |
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Green (Ochil and South Perthshire) |
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There are so many of the sites asking for questions and comments and it is difficult as a candidate to keep up with them all - login / password etc |
| Bill Greene |
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Liberal Democrat (Blackpool North and Cleveleys) |
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With any policy position thre will always be more people against than for. Politically parties are not single issue organisation - they are are people who *on balance* agree to work together - Is there a way that people making comments can indicate their 'starting positon'. For example I would be interested in the views of those people who are basically centre left and have aboslutly no interest in those who are extreme right |
| David Stokes |
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Labour (Bournemouth East) |
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You did a very good job. Well done. |
