VoteMatch - help in decising who to vote for in the European Elections

With the current events in Westminster, you could be forgiven for not realising we are just a couple of weeks from an election.  On Thursday 4 June, voters in Britain will have a chance to elect their representatives in the European Parliament for the next five years.

Today I came across Vote Match

This tool is incredibly simple: give your opinion on thirty statements, mark which ones you consider to be particularly important or unimportant, and the website calculates where you stand in relation to the parties standing for election in your region based on their own responses to the same statements.  It's totally transparent - the website doesn't just give you a match, it explains how the calculation was made.

No doubt you are planning to cast your vote on 4th June and if like me you are somewhat unsure about which party stands for what what in these elections it might just help you make up your mind.

Have a go now. And please forward it on to all your friends and family to help them make up their minds as well.  They've tried to make this as easy for you as possible with the help of Twitter and Facebook.

On the “party choice” question at the end I suggest that you select all by skipping the page.  It means that you can compare your thoughts with all parties.  You can skip the details section at the end too.

I am reliably informed that a number of people have been very surprised by the results. For myself it helped me confirm that the party I was going to vote for, purely instinctively, does in fact have the best match to my answers to the policy questions put forward.

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