Political Party RSS Feeds

Comment on General Election 2017 by David.

Well you have to laugh at yourself when you get things so wrong :-)

After looking closer the following political parties DO NOT have a full RSS feed.

Conservative Party
Labour Party
Liberal Democrat Party

And the following political parties DO have full RSS feed.

BNP
Green Party
UKIP

IF I can get a WordPress RSS feed aggregator working in a way I’m happy with I will be able to add the latter three parties news to http://www.votesprout.com/ in full automatically.

Kind of interesting the three main parties don’t have full news feeds. I wouldn’t put it down to a conspiracy to stop commenting on their news or anything, just that they are not working in the 21st century like the rest of us :-)

I planned to email the three main parties to see if I could get a full RSS news feed (worth a try to make my life easier) and contacted the Lib Dems first (not got around to Labour/Conservatives yet) via their contact form and it was ‘broken’: when I tried to send a relatively large message via the form, it wouldn’t send. Sent a smaller message and it went through fine and I received an automated email saying the email address my message had gone to is to a person who no longer works for the Lib Dems and I should email someone else (at least supplied an alternative address). I used the alternative email and got a reply quite quickly which is good as many organisations with websites don’t respond to queries even when they supply contact details!!!

If you look at the Labour party site it’s a mess, there’s a news section that is way out of date and where they have different sections (like a women’s section) the Labour policies do not match the links on the main site and don’t work. Basically whoever is managing the different sections is not updating the policy links when I guess the main webmaster removes old policy documents and uploads new ones with new links resulting in lots of dead links through the domain, DOH!

So far nothing excessively wrong has jumped out at me about the Conservative website other than it’s Conservative :-)

David