Ryan MacMillan

A few weeks ago, Ally (who, had I been in the office during his internship, I would totally have referred to constantly as “Intern Ally” because I am a comedy genius, clearly) wrote a post which justly bemoaned the state of most UK political websites, particularly those maintained under the auspices of our fearless government. I heartily concurred, noting the painful gap between our politicians’ use of the web (amateur hour at best) and that of Americans (10th Level Dragonmage Mad Skillzz).

But it seems that some of our elected representatives are bucking the trend. The British Computer Society (whose Christmas party at the Ipswich Travelodge, by the way, is quite the hottest date on the Suffolk social calendar) recently announced Plaid Cymru’s Alan Price as winner of their “Best MP Website” award, calling it “an outstanding example” of design, engagement, and accesibility. His website really is great (and I say that as someone whose opinion of Plaid Cymru is most charitably described as ‘malign’); hopefully more MP’s will follow his example, rather than that of an unnamed MP whose website’s staggeringly bad design caused one BCS judge to ask “which party does this woman belong to?”