A Newport manufacturing manager has created a free website allowing people to see exactly how their MP has voted in Parliament.
Phillip Bishop, 58, who works as a manufacturing manager at Red Composites in Newport, created the website YourMPRecord to make parliamentary voting records easier to understand and access.
The website allows users to search for any MP and view every vote they have taken part in since the 2024 General Election, using official parliamentary data presented in plain English.
For Isle of Wight residents, that means being able to look up Richard Quigley or Joe Robertson and see how they have voted on issues affecting both the Island and the country.
Rather than ranking politicians or expressing political opinions, the website simply presents each MP’s voting record alongside plain English explanations of what each vote was about.
Phillip built the website largely using AI through Claude Code despite having no previous coding experience.
Building the website involved linking together a number of different online services before everything worked as intended.
Phillip said:
“It was a little bit complicated getting all the sites to connect with each other. I needed to sign up for lots of different accounts, but I completed the build mostly using AI through Claude Code, despite having no coding experience.”
His aim, he explained, was to make it easier for people to understand how their MPs had voted in Parliament and what individual Bills actually meant.
He added:
“The site was an idea to help people see how their MP had voted, both locally and across the country, in a clear and concise way, along with AI information explaining what some of the Bills actually mean. I intend to grow that section.”
YourMPRecord is free to use and covers every MP elected to the House of Commons since the 2024 General Election, with voting records updated using Parliament’s official data.
All it probably shows is that, on the whole, Joe Robertson votes for the good of his constituents and Richard Quigley votes the way his party tells him to!
Well done will be a great read thank you for putting in the
effort.
Pity the website doesn’t work… AI clown again…
Or, for those who don’t need it explaining in words of one syllable the’ They Work For You’ website that’s been going for years.
And for those who don’t understand, there are free votes where they vote the way they please, and whipped votes where they vote they way they are told. Works the same in any party. Sometimes it’s not because they necessarily agree/disagree with the vote, but to kill the bill on first reading in order for it to be amended when presented again. Things like a blanket ban of alcohol because of youngsters drink driving would be voted against by most parties (you mean you AGREE that drink driving should continue??) in order for an amendment to be made like ‘only the over 40s can purchase alcohol’.
How about creating a website that shows all the vehicles
driving around the island with NO MOT
There’s been one coming from the council houses
along Great Preston Road in Ryde for months.
THE DVLA system is rubbish, if a vehicle is taxed their
Tuppence ha’penny system FAILS
‘another Public Sector FAILURE’
Anyone would think they are driving to South Africa
MOT rules.
Lol
I think we may assume that cowards and the unprincipled will always vote the way they are told by the Whips. Anyone who still thinks they work for us is deluded. Only if the whipping system were to be abolished would we get any semblance of democracy.
They do as they are told, sadly they don’t represent us.
Democracy died off years ago, the pandemic was a reminder
of that.