Bridesmaid Again

As this is a new month I've been very busy getting month ending stats complied the day after doing all the week ending one. So I only got to glance at the Total Politics Top 75 Lib Dem Blogs at 10:46, despite knowing they would be appearing at 9 a.m.

As people usually tend to have a habit of only listing the top 10 if they bother doing a list I have yet again found myself in the position of maid of honour, chief bridesmaid at number Eleven. What I do find surprising in that Caron is also in the same position in both this and the Scottish lists: in her case seventh.

I'm just hoping I'm not 101st in the overall poll.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with my position, especially as I didn't go out hawking votes so thank you to all the lovely people who voted for me and my ramblings, rantings and views. It is a climb in the right direction and just behind former Lib Dem Blog of the Year winners Alix Mortimer and James Graham, ahead of our IT Czar Lynne Featherstone who takes my spot from last year. Indeed well done to Charlotte for getting above LDV, and Costigan and Mark for their good showings, they all gathered votes off me. But to be eleventh....TWICE!!!!

But as Caron says the Lib Dem Voice Blog of the Year Awards are still open to nominations until Friday 4th September. Don't let the fact that I am going to be at the awards for the first time ever, despite blogging since before their inception and never being nominated sway your nominations in any way. You're far too liberal a bunch to let that affect you. Aren't you?

Here is the full top 75.

1. (-) Charlotte Gore
2. (1) LibDem Voice
3. (-) Himmelgarten Cafe
4. (3) Norfolk Blogger
5. (-) Mark Reckons
6. (-) Liberal Vision
7. (44) Caron’s Musings
8. (5) Liberal England
9. (2) People’s Republic of Mortimer
10. (4) Quaequam Blog
11. (15) Stephen’s Linlithgow Journal
12. (18) Jennie Rigg
13. (11) Cicero’s Songs
14. (7) Millennium Dome Elephant
15. (6) Lynne Featherstone MP
16. (-) Dude the Dog
17. (8) Peter Black AM
18. (9) Love & Liberty
19. (-) Andrew Reeves
20. (39) Irfan Ahmed
21. (24) 474 Votes to Win
22. (-) Always Win When You’re Singing
23. (-) Freedom Central
24. (14) Jock Coats
25. (42) Sound of Gunfire
26. (-) Willie Rennie MP
27. (-) Freedom & Whisky
28. (-) LibDem Blogs
29. (-) Hagley Road to Ladywood
30. (-) Paula Keaveney
31. (28) Fraser Macpherson
32. (26) Jonathan Fryer
33. (-) Chris Davies MEP
34. (-) Agent Orange
35. (-) Liberal Bureaucracy
36. (-) Mark Pack
37. (-) Pink Dog
38. (-) Liberal Revolution
39. (-) Birkdale Focus
40. (-) John Hemming MP
41. (32) Anything Caron Can Do
42. (45) Disgruntled Radical
43. (-) Wit & Wisdom
44. (-) Duncan Borrowman
45. (-) Nick Clegg MP
46. (-) Nigel Ashton
47. (-) Social Liberal Forum
48. (-) Steve Webb MP
49. (-) The Speaker
50. (-) Belsize LibDems
51. (21) Hug a Hoodie
52. (23) Orange by Name
53. (37) Anders Hanson
54. (-) John Barrett MP
55. (-) Katy Gordon
56. (-) Max Atkinson
57. (-) Liberal Youth Scotland
58. (-) Moments of Clarity
59. (-) Adrian Sanders MP
60. (29) A Lanson Boy
61. (38) Eric Avebury
62. (47) Gavin’s Gaily Gigest
64. (-) Liberal Dose
65. (-) Mary Reid
66. (-) ALDC
63. (43) Antony Hook
67. (22) Jo Christie-Smith
68. (16) Lindylooz Muse
69. (-) Swindon South Liberal Democrats
70. (-) Niles’s Blog
71. (13) Neil Stockley
72. (-) LibCync
73. (-) What You Can Get Away With
74. (-) Wouldn’t it be Scarier
75. (-) Richard Allan