Are you a Parliamentary candidate? Do you know one? If so here’s a handy reminder:

TheyWorkForYou.com has sent online surveys to nearly 3000 candidates  across the UK, including most of your party’s candidates. If you don’t know it, TheyWorkForYou is probably the largest politician transparency website in the UK, with about 3m visitors last year.

The survey we’ve sent is a rigorously neutral attempt to clarify candidates positions on many of the biggest national and local issues at the election. It is also a long-term document – the data that comes from candidate responses will be viewed millions of times between now  and the general election after this one. It also contains both local  and national questions.

There are 6000+ volunteers across 99% of constituencies waiting to start nagging non-responsive candidate, but they won’t be putting on the pressure for a couple of days yet.  In the meantime, you can help your party improve its responsiveness rating by passing on the word that TheyWorkForYou’s survey is important, and is emphatically NOT a) push-polling b) single issue or c) time consuming. And the data from it will be seen by a lot of people, both before and after election day.

TheyWorkForYou will be one of the main ways that new MPs from all parties (and none) will be scrutinised and neither we nor new MPs want to start our relationship with a “refused to go on the record” badge on their pages. Please take 5 minutes and do us and your voters a favour.

If you are a candidate, and you want to do the survey, check your email for TheyWorkForYou (no spaces). If you don’t have the survey email already, drop a mail to [email protected] and it’ll be sent along shortly.