New site to help voters campaign on their issues
A new website that aims to give voters “the tools to engage with the policy-makers” launched this week, called ‘Whistle’.
Its founder George Norman says he has raised $1 million in start-up capital to create a site that, ‘brings politicians, activists, voters and candidates together to become better informed, debate real issues, run campaigns and shape their local communities.’
He told Liberal Conspiracy:
If an MP runs two surgeries a month, they might meet 500 of their constituents a year. A constituency has an average of 74,000 voters. That’s a lot of unheard voices. We’re talking about a site that can allow a local politician to connect with voters on a completely different level.
It’s a site where a candidate can prepare the ground for a campaign by explaining their views and answering questions directly and on a large scale.
It’s designed to cut through the arcane trappings of the political establishment and make politics truly popular, says Norman.
The site aims to help people communicate with their MPs (through blogs, forums, and integration with networks like Twitter and Facebook), create their own campaigns and support the causes that matter to them.
It will also charge causes and prospective political candidates £10 for access to campaigning tools.
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