Archive for total politics
And the prize for rudest MP goes to…
From Total Politics: I work in the next-door building to David Lammy, the ever-diligent member for Tottenham, and often end up walking in front of or behind him on the way to my office. I mentioned the other day, while having a few drinks with some other researchers, how I noticed that he barely ever [...]
E-voting: my letter to Total Politics
Published in the October edition: In talking about introducing internet voting in the UK, Melanie Batley called the trials in the UK “a great success” (Total Politics, August 2011). I beg to differ: they were costly and produced no significant increase in turnout. There are many criticisms that can be made of the last Labour [...]
Total Politics: top blogs and bloggers
Following its list of top Liberal Democrat blogs and bloggers, Total Politics has now also published its overall list of top blogs and bloggers – two lists in which many Liberal Democrats feature. In the top 50 of the blogs list, Lib Dem Voice is in at number 12 (up from 27 last year), Caron [...]
Total Politics: top Liberal Democrat blogs and bloggers
Out with a little less fanfare than usual this week have been various categories in the Total Politics Blogger League Tables, including the top Liberal Democrat blogs: 1 Lib Dem Voice 2 Caron’s Musings 3 Liberal England 4 Andrew Reeves’ Running Blog 5 Stephen’s Liberal Journal 6 Mark Pack =7 Liberal Vision =7 A Scottish [...]
Congratulations Caron, Jonathan and Stephen
The Total Politics Top 100 Liberal Democrat blogs table is out, with the top five being: 1 Lib Dem Voice 2 Caron’s Musings 3 Liberal England 4 Andrew Reeves’ Running Blog 5 Stephen’s Liberal Journal This blog then slips in at #6. It’s fitting to see Andrew’s contribution to Liberal Democrat blogging, both as a blogger and an [...]
Your chance to vote for lots of wonderful people
And, ahem, me. Yup, it’s the Total Politics Blog of the Year awards again, this time with the sensible innovation of letting people vote for both their favourite political blogs and also their favourite political bloggers, thereby reflecting how some people now blog in many different places. Further details are here and you can cast [...]
Why Robin Walker is wrong on electoral reform
This letter taking issue with Conservative MP Robin Walker’s claims about electoral reform appears in the latest edition of Total Politics: Conservative MP Robin Walker is mistaken to think that voting systems other than first-past-the-post all give a leg-up to extremist parties. In fact, it is the lower threshold for winning under first past the [...]
Thank you for your votes
Thank you to everyone who voted for this blog in the Total Politics blog poll, propelling it up from 36 last year to number 5 this year in the list of Liberal Democrat blogs. Thanks too for those who voted for Liberal Democrat Voice, which I co-edit and moved up from number 2 to number [...]
The Miliband campaigning house parties
Over on the Total Politics website they’ve been poking fun at the ‘house party’ instructions issued by the David Miliband campaign. On reading the piece at first I thought it was being a little harsh, because house parties (where you invite electors – Labour members in this case – to a small event to discuss [...]
Excuse me, but would you mind voting for me?
It’s that time of the year when bloggers either ask for votes for the Total Politics poll or explain why they’re not taking part in it. I certainly agree it shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but as a rough idea of which political blogs a decent number of blog readers rate, it comes up with [...]
