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250,000 surveys completed = we want policies!

Posted 1 year ago | Comments | Tags: policies crunchy nut cornflakes bad jokes election

By Matt Chocqueel-Mangan

We were delighted to sail past the 250,000 mark today! This is entirely thanks to the incredible support from all of you out there who have shared, tweeted, forwarded, posted, blogged, dug (digged?), emailed and generally just shouted about the Vote for Policies website. Thank you all. Being able to compare policies, it seems, is something we find useful in deciding who to vote for. 

Also pleased to report that the site has never been busier, with over 25,000 surveys being completed today alone! This is also after some really frustrating technical issues over the weekend that we know inconvenienced many of you. Sincere apologies to all of you we haven’t managed to reply to yet - hings are back to normal, so if you have time to try the survey again please do. Thanks also for being so patient with us - it helped soothe the pain of getting no sleep and surviving on little more than bad jokes and Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

We were also delighted to release a new feature (and the source of our weekend troubles) showing results for specific constituencies. We’re still adding the data from all of the surveys so far, so the full picture will be revealed tomorrow morning. Great to see people are already posting links to for their constituency results!

We’ll be posting here later today and will be keeping you abreast of developments post-election. In the meantime, I hope you’re all as excited about the election day as we are, and looking forward to whatever tomorrow (literally and figuratively) may bring.

Do remember to vote too (I say this mainly for the benefit of our Simon…).

Thanks all ;-)

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