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[email protected] appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
Looking at their own site, it's made in webflow (advertised as "make a website with no code"). It's a GUI, there's no actual web development happening here. Fucking joke that this cost 100k, the business license for webflow is ~£40 a month, though they could have got away with making this site on a basic license.
There's no tech bros in the Tory party really, they clearly don't understand tech at all, it's why we keep getting shafted when they give out all our money and get nothing back.
I would’ve done it for 90.
“How can we blame this on immigrants” - Tory thought process.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Records show more than 330 invoices from Bluetree to Conservative MPs, including Hunt, Truss, Javid and Keegan, for web design services.
Other high-profile Conservatives who have expensed services from Bluetree include Ben Wallace, Tobias Ellwood, Mark Francois and Helen Whately.
“Running surveys on a website, paid for with public money, which elicit information about likely voting intention constitutes a breach of the expenses rules.
Rose Whiffen, a senior research officer at Transparency International UK, said: “There are rightly strict rules governing what MPs can and cannot claim on expenses, including using public money for political purposes.
It says it has “the only software designed to provide Conservative MPs with the features to campaign effectively online throughout the election cycle” and that “candidates who use Bluetree consistently receive a higher vote share than those who don’t”.
It says: “We have spent more than a decade working inside the party to provide tools that you simply cannot get elsewhere.” It also promises a site that is “compliant with Ipsa, the UK, Scottish and Welsh parliaments, the Electoral Commission and the information commissioner”.
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