Voting records of members are priceless for accountability. Are they posted somewhere for the assembly?

I could not find them for westminster

aquifer

I don't think there's an assembly equivalent.. yet.. but for MPs -

They Work For You

I much prefer the altered headline for this thread. The first one was very ill advised.

Each of the 'main parties' have examples of votes in the Assembly where they set aside their long held 'principles' due to a sudden dose of political reality.

Kieran McCarthy and his - what, 4? - colleagues could afford to vote to give everything to everyone for free because they were never near the Executive table. same goes for the despicable record of the Women's Coalition.

Still, Bell should learn. slipping back into populist opposition came all to easy for all of them. Anti water charges? they were all prepared to sign off on them prior to suspension in October 2002.

brendan

You have a point, but in any normal political situation, this would have been seen as a major u-turn on party policy by a fairly senior party member.

It's called 'When reality strikes'.

...the Assembly vote, that is, just in case it's not clear. If it was so vital for the UUP, they would have voted differently at the time.

It was one of the times in the Assembly where there was some nice political manoeuvering on a bread-and-butter issue by Alliance.

...but then no-one pays attention to real politics here.

If anyone is interested in providing a similar service to *They Work for You* for the Assembly you can access equivalent (Open) source code at http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/project/index.php .

You can also import their raw Westminster data onto spreadsheets etc if you so wish. I set out on that course a while ago, but didn't have the time to put into the project

I think we could all do with a piece of software that can monitor index pages for changes, access the changes, store the accessed page, and run previously entered search criteria against the data. It would certainly make my life easier.