Public Whip
Internet site analysing the activity of members of the British parliament / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Public Whip is a parliamentary informatics project that analyses and publishes the voting history of MPs in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was developed by Francis Irving and Julian Todd following the 18 March 2003 Parliamentary Approval for the invasion of Iraq as a tool to record which MPs had defied their party's whip long after the information had become effectively inaccessible for reference.
On 1 August 2011 Irving and Todd handed control of the site to a new team.[1]
The project is loosely affiliated to mySociety's TheyWorkForYou with which it shares a large part of the same parliamentary parsing code-base.
In 2014 the OpenAustralia Foundation launched a fork of the project for Australia's federal parliament called They Vote For You .