Electionleaflets.org is one of those simple, focused websites that provides a service that no-one else has thought of.
Anyone can upload photos of election leaflets that they have come across, and you can then search them by constituency or by party. That’s it.
Like Lib Dem Voice, the site is run by volunteers, so we have to thank them for the time they put into analysing and annotating the leaflets. The project is a brainchild of Unlock Democracy.
They have a target of gathering 10,000 leaflets between 1st January this year and polling day. The national media use it as a valuable resource. So you all know what you have to do, don’t you … ?
By the way, we’ve referred to this site before: Is this the most bizarre election leaflet of all time?
* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.
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What to do with your spare election literature:
Give them to your local 6th form students studying politics, as party policies and ideas is probably on their syllabus if they’re studying UK politics.
Regards,
Simon Foster
(Head of Politics, Birmingham Metropolitan College).
PS: No, don’t post me leaflets, I’m going have quite enough, thank you 😉
Aren’t those leaflets just dreadful? Take a look at the first few pages at Electionleaflets.org and disregard your party preferences. All of those leaflets look very similar.
There’s a design style for take away food providers — with different tweaks for chinese food and pizza providers. Political pamphlet designers have copied one another in iterative fashion to create something new: 21st century political messages for the recycling bin. Take away food and throw away politics.
It may be smart to use a party template for a leaflet, but citizens have access to wheels and travel across the country. If the same template is used in Newcastle (strong emphasis on castle) and Newcastle (midlands emphasis), “working locally” doesn’t work.
What happened to the local Focus leaflet, printed on a creaking offset? What happened to eccentric Letraset and wonky type? Desktop publish technology changed it a bit, but the designers expected it to be used creatively. What we see now in political leaflets are blue skies, bland typefaces and templates. Voters don’t perceive exciting candidates through the content and design of leaflets.