Rate Your Leader UK

20/08/2024

06/02/2020

It’s been a busy week for the makers of digital democracy app Rate Your Leader with high profile appearances on both television and radio. Project director Joel Popoola was interviewed on the UK’s third biggest television news channel for the second time as part of a feature on how politicians a...

05/12/2019

The amount of physical, verbal or online abuse suffered by local representatives has risen by 500% in just two years – with local politicians reporting receiving bomb threats, being spat at, and having dog poo smeared on their cars.
https://www.rateyourleader.com/uncategorised/councillors-face-rising-tide-of-abuse-as-attacks-rise-500/

13/11/2019

No politician has ever gone into an election saying that this election isn’t close at all, and that your vote will make no difference but the General Election 2019 is undeniably unprecedented in many ways
https://www.rateyourleader.com/uncategorised/general-election-2019-where-will-your-vote-make-the-most-difference/

06/11/2019

RYL connects politicians to verified voters in their constituencies at the touch of a button without fear of abuse or harassment.
https://rateyourleader.com/uncategorised/election-2019-needless-registering/

03/11/2019

https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2019/10/31/abuse-proof-social-media-only-cure-as-threats-against-mps-become-commonplace-and-normalised

01/11/2019

A Parliamentary report has laid bare the sickening scale of abuse suffered by MPs – with threats of r**e and violence described as “commonplace” and death threats “frequent”.
https://www.rateyourleader.com/uncategorised/abuse-proof-social-media-only-cure-death-threats-against-mps-become-commonplace/

10/10/2019

Too many voters are voting for people they don’t know. We have quite a number of local voters who cannot name their councillors, they don’t have an idea.
Likewise, they cannot name their MPs, their mayors or their Police and Crime Commissioners. They are voting for people they don’t know

Digital democracy app Rate Your Leader has reached a worldwide audiance after its creator was interviewed on international television.

18/09/2019

“Panic button politics” leads to unprecedented number of MPs standing down
https://www.rateyourleader.com/uncategorised/panic-button-politics-mps-standing-down/

13/09/2019

Government figures show that:

52,408 applied to register to vote on Monday September 2nd
64,485 applied to register to vote on Tuesday September 3rd
58% of the applications came from people aged 34 and under.
https://www.businessupnorth.co.uk/theres-an-election-coming-but-can-you-vote-in-it-free-app-lets-voters-know-at-touch-of-a-button/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0OK_qCQCdSEamY6ZVqe2KidNszzKjrY14t_TeXFM-NbBMWjoL6moUptRg

29/08/2019

MPs spoke publically about the abuse they have endured from members of the public – including being sent pictures of decapitated bodies.

Makers of democracy app call for politicians to break up big tech companies if they fail to take action to prevent online abuse