If, in advance of the coming May 6th UK elections, you happened to be looking for a comprehensive rundown of where the main candidates—and their political parties—stand on the subject of videogames, then today is your lucky day.

The [URL=http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/102673/Page/1/]sprawling Cadred.org piece[/URL] begins by asking “what would happen in the election if we looked purely at what each of the parties could do for gamers?” While the site itself focuses on e-sports, the author notes that this sliver of the industry isn’t recognized very much, or at all, by politicians, so the article adopts the angle of finding out “who supports what and why within the wider industry of video games.”

A sampling from the piece’s report on political parties:

[B]Labour [/B]– “Labour have shown a positive attitude towards the video game industry in several ways over the last year, particularly with the introduction, finally, of tax breaks for the games industry announced in the last budget.
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