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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Simon Jeffery

The Tory crowdsourcing budget spectacular. Found anything yet?

Tory budget crowdsource project
Screengrab of the Tory project to crowdsource the scrutinising of the budget Photograph: guardian.co.uk

As Alistair Darling sat down, a Tory project to crowdsource the scrutinising of the budget's small print went up. You can see it for yourself at yourbudgetresponse.co.uk.

There isn't a great deal to say yet. The design of the site reproduces each page of the budget with a box to the right that invites you to post your observations: "Did You find anything we should investigate further? Let us know below," it asks.

The format is similar to a cut-down version of our MPs' expenses crowdsourcing tool - the idea is the same (the ability to post comments on documents), though it lacks feedback mechanisms telling you, for example, how much of the budget has already been looked at.

Those observations are not visible on the site (also true for the later versions of our MPs' expenses exercise). But if you have added one, seen anything or have views on the project, why not let us know below.

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