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Sentence describing how an MP voted missing from page on specific vote #1424

Open RichardTaylor opened 5 years ago

RichardTaylor commented 5 years ago

For example the page at

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2013-05-21-11-commons/mp/10426

doesn't contain the sentence

Theresa May voted in favour of allowing same sex couples to marry.

I think that sentence, which is at, https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10426/theresa_may/maidenhead/divisions?policy=826 should be present.

Perhaps the omission is intentional to avoid repetition; if repetition is a concern the sentence on what the majority of MPs did could be shortened to just "A majority of MPs agreed" or "A majority of MPs agreed".

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RichardTaylor commented 2 years ago

As noted at #1264 particular confusion can occur when the motion is worded in opposition to the description of the policy position.

A further potential source of confusion is the use of a similar red colour for both "No" and to indicate a Labour MP.

Current

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Possible improvement:

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Retaining the coloured dot next to the party name would provide a key to the graphic.

I may have overdone it by repeating the text describing the issue in the headers for the graphics - it's just an idea.

Another, bold, option would be to drop any mention of Aye and No from these pages completely.