Tuesday, September 02, 2008

68th top “left of centre” blog

Found out that “John’s Labour blog” has come 68th in the top 100 of “left of centre” blogs as reported on Tory boy Iain Dale site.

These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 75 UK political blogs and the readers of TOTAL POLITICS Magazine.

Each person voted for their top ten blogs. Their favourite was awarded ten points, their second favourite nine points and so on down to one point. 1,142 people cast a vote”.

Not sure whether this is good or bad? Being in the bottom 50 isn’t something to shout about I suppose, but it is surprisingly quite pleasing to read that some people have obviously found this blog interesting enough to vote for.

I didn’t actually vote in the poll but I suppose my top 10 would be:-

1. Labourhome (7th)
2. Dave Part (10th)
3. Labour & Capital (63rd)
4. Bloggers4Labour (21st)
5. Normblog (20th)
6. Harry Place (12th)
7. Hope Sen (2nd)
8. Rupa Haq (44th)
9. Luke’s blog (6th)
10. TIGMOO (not listed I think?)

However, to be frank, sad person that I am, I enjoy reading most blogs from time to time.

Congratulations to everyone, especially the top 3 Tom, Hopi and S&M!

This is the full list: -

1. Tom Harris MP2. Hopi Sen3. Stumbling & Mumbling4. Liberal Conspiracy5. Recess Monkey6. Luke Akehurst7. LabourHome8. Tom Watson MP9. Ministry of Truth10. Dave's Part11. Sadie's Tavern12. Harry's Place13. SNP Tactical Voting14. Socialist Unity15. Paul Linford16. Labour Outlook17. A Very Public Sociologist18. Obsolete19. Ordovicius20. Normblog21. Bloggers4Labour22. Theo's Blog23. Kezia Dugdale's Soapbox24. Beau Bo D'Or25. Bob Piper26. Forgesian Thinking27. The Daily (Maybe)28. Stuart King29. Lenin's Tomb30. Pickled Politics31. Never Trust a Hippy32. Chris Paul's Labour of Love33. Bloggerheads34. Chicken Yoghurt35. Bethan Jenkins AM36. Conor's Commentary37. John McDonnell MP38. Neil Clark39. Adam Price MP40. Snowflake541. Jane's the One42. Progress43. Two Doctors44. Rupa Huq45. The F Word46. Fat Man on a Keyboard47. Cynical Dragon48. Scots and Independent49. Byrne Baby Byrne50. Rachel North London51. Drink Soaked Trots52. Adam Smith was a Socialist53. Tory Troll54. Penny Red55. Kevin Maguire56. Nosemonkey's Eutopia57. Five Chinese Crackers58. Grimmer up North59. Guerilla Welsh Fare60. Welsh Ramblings61. Kerron Cross62. Three Score Years & Ten63. Labour and Capital64. Mars Hill65. Wheeler's Website66. Indygal67. Tartan Hero68. John's Labour Blog69. Charlie Beckett70. Ian Bone71. Another Green World72. Harpymarx73. Blog Menai74. Kerry McCarthy MP75. The Exile76. New Direction77. Lancaster Unity78. Modernity79. Organised Rage80. Madam Miaow Says...81. Calum Cashley82. Clairwil83. Councillor Terry Kelly84. Stroppy Blog85. Shiraz Socialist86. Labour Left Forum87. Amlwch to Magor88. Defend the NHS89. Jon's Union Blog90. Paul Flynn MP91. Scribo Ergo Sum92. Andrew Burns's Really Bad Blog93. Don Paskini94. Oliver Kamm95. Bid for Freedom96. Macuaid97. Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey98. Sit Down Man99. Tygerland100. Jon Worth Euroblog

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

good result comrade

Anonymous said...

Congratulations John! Onwards and upwards.
Looks like Jon R's blog isn't as popular as some would have us believe! I suspect most of his readers are not on his side of the fence.
No sign of Union Futures at all - or maybe that's not seen as being left of centre as much as wide of the mark?
Keep up the good work
Andrew

John said...

Congrats John - I fell off the list entirely this year, so that's even less to shout about than bottom 50 ;)

Oh well - the (well-developed) nerd in me still loves lists like this. There are a lot of blogs out there, and getting peer-review like this is a handy way to see which might be interesting to follow.

Anonymous said...

Thanks John. I didn't vpte either or plug it on my blog. It seem,s so arbitrary (Kerron Cros seems to have slumped for example since the last one) and plain odd that we (the centtre left) get juged by King Tory Boy himself.

Tom Powdrill said...

Hi John, I can just about see you down there from my lofty position of 63rd!

Anonymous said...

Good result
but Iain dale changed rules during the vote
so that made it more difficult
think you would be in top 50

but well done

John Gray said...

Many thanks Comrades! Even Tom P (the B*****)

Actually, last year I was 60th! But this year it was individual votes while last time it was judged by a worthy panel. So “the people have spoken” (cue again, Tom P).

There are many really good blogs that did not and do not get the recognition that they deserve. Especially those “left of centre” and trade union blogs. So Rupa is right, why isn’t there a proper “lefty” organised top 100?

I would of course insist that UNISON had a block vote.

Tim said...

"Iain dale changed rules during the vote"

In what way?