Intro

Nearly 27 years ago my wife's MSc project was a database of UK MPs recording their areas of interest, intended to aid charities in their lobbying activities. How prescient.
Nowadays we have a keen interest in UK politics and often look up details of MPs.
So how much fun would it be to run our own online database?

33 years ago I retrained from a Barclays (Bank Trust Company) tax adviser
to a programmer (many thanks to BOC and to the govt. at the time for the six-month TOPS retraining course). I worked on mainframes until retirement, but have been building static web sites since 2000.

The plan is to learn how to build an online database of UK MPs.

This will test my coding and new-learning capabilities to the full, and may be abandoned if it's too much like hard work, but it's worth a try.


One thing to note, the database is only intended to supply information on the current MPs, so the proposed boundary changes for the 2020 election will not cause conversion headaches - I'll just dump the old version and reconfigure on the new boundaries.