Online resources worth perusing

In addition to the BBC's continuous feed of election updates, every major UK media outlet are providing critical resources for their readers/viewers. I'll be highlighting two in particular.

The first is Sky News' constituency guide. Although that link leads to their generic election map, clicking on a constituency's news page leads you to an RSS-fed page for that constituency, featuring the Tweets of Parliamentary candidates and active followers, as well as recent news from reliable local news sources. For example, the page for Folkestone and Hythe features the Twitter feeds of Damian Collins from the Conservatives and Lynne Beaumont from the Liberal Democrats, as well as headlines from the online-based Hawkinge Gazette.

The second is everyone's favourite party platform matchmaker, this one provided by the Daily Telegraph. A voter answers 30 questions about 12 subjects to determine which parties' manifestos are the best fit for them. Although this is standard in every election that's been run in the online age, the Telegraph's engine allows the voter to de-select parties he/she would never consider voting for, or are not running candidates in his/her constituency. And, with separate engines for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, you can see how your political persuasions would fit in different parts of the UK.