What This Site Does
This is an independent, nonpartisan transparency platform built to hold British government to account using facts, data and journalism. No party affiliation. No government funding. No advertising. Its purpose is accountability.
The site tracks MPs’ voting records, publishes declared financial interests, expense claims and outside earnings, records every division in the House of Commons, assesses government departments on delivery and examines what councils charge against what they provide. Sources are linked. Corrections are published. Claims that cannot be verified are excluded.
The editorial content is written by working journalists who publish without bylines. They are not anonymous because they have something to hide. They are anonymous because the work should be judged on accuracy, not personality. Politicians spend careers building personal brands. This site strips that away and publishes what they actually did, how they actually voted and what they actually claimed.
MP profiles use caricatures rather than official photographs. Political image management is part of the problem. Official portraits project authority and seriousness regardless of whether either has been earned. The caricatures strip that back. Some MPs serve with genuine integrity and the data on this site reflects that. Others leaked confidential documents to the wrong email address, destroyed careers over three penalty points, faked their own death and fled to Australia, or claimed £650 for a £36 phone bill quarter after quarter. The serious and the absurd sit in the same Parliament. Satirical illustration has been part of British political commentary for 250 years, from James Gillray to Spitting Image. The facts are serious. The faces do not need to be.
The site includes an open voting platform where the public can record how they would have voted on the same divisions that MPs vote on in Parliament. The purpose is simple: to show whether the people’s representatives are representing the people. Serving MPs are among the regular visitors to this site. They read the editorials. They check the data. They see how the public votes. Whether that changes how they behave is for them to answer. But a politician who knows the public is watching, voting and keeping score is a politician with one less excuse for not listening.
The site is free. The data is open. The sources are visible. The journalism can be challenged.
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