Here at the Purple Monkey Collective we've grown tired of politicians using lies and half-truths to promote an idea or viewpoint seemingly without challenge. This, we believe, needs to stop and the politicians need to be called out on this behaviour. This site is starting point to allow us to address this.

This site (well, the concept it represents) is intended to provide a check on the words and utterances made by politicians of all camps around the UK with a view to help the general populace identify who is trustworthy and who is not.

We'd like to think of this site as a fact checking 'service' of sorts which can help sit alongside the professionals such as Full Fact, and hopefully providing a slightly different, but still objective, view of the political landscape and the discourse occurring within it.

Conceptually, think of this site as providing league tables for politicians, where they can move up and down by telling truths and lies. We plan to provide analysis across different slices, with the intention that scores are provided to rank the lies and untruths to help move the dials.

We are still in the early stages of this concept, so we're not sure how it will operate specifically, but we are going to start with a simple approach to start with and build it up from there. Initially this is going to be a manual crowd sourced effort rather than any kind of automated effort. Specifically fill out our web form below to send us the detail of their untruth or honesty and we will process it.

We can forsee a number of difficulties with what we are trying to do longer term, so we're under no illusion that it’s going to be difficult to manage this properly due to non-objective truths, but we will find our way round those as we go.

We sincerely hope you will come with us on this journey!