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Posted February 27th, 2007 by ringverse
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I just got a text from a friend of mine saying that we were in the Bloggers4Labour top 20.  Top 20 what I wondered?  Given the rather less than amicable relationship between the two blogs, I was intrigued.

It turns out that Bloggers4Labour's wonderful review of Blairwatch is the 13th most popular story on the B4L site, with 202 reads!

Worth mentioning, if only for this priceless description of the article in question, by it's author...

#13 -  blairwatch - I used the f*** word for the first and only time in a post here, but it actually contains a pretty good defence of the autonomy of party-political bloggers (202)

 

Anyway, inspired by this, I thought I could do the same - so here's our top 20 posts.  

    1-  We're Prepared To Pay The Price Of Freedom, Are You?
    76870 reads

    2-  Calling All Bloggers: These Documents need publishing
    46424 reads

    3-  Citizens for legitimate Government Breaking News
    29394 reads

    4-  Confirmed: There are Two Memos.
    23663 reads

    5-  ID cards - now the lunacy is unleashed
    21282 reads

    6-  Contact Us
    20443 reads

    7-  Confidential letters from Ambassador Craig Murray...
    20005 reads

    8-  Blair on Extraordinary Rendition: The Lying Liar and the Lies he tells.
    17981 reads

    9-  Who Saved Blair's Bacon?
    17124 reads

    10- Torture Background [Hansard]
    16680 reads

    11- Bombing al Jazeera - Were There Two Memos?
    13577 reads

    12- About BlairWatch
    11256 reads

    13- Fox goes Fascist
    10902 reads

    14- Add Your Site to the List of Those Prepared to Publish the al-Jazeera Memo:
    10833 reads

    15- Summary of legal opinion from Michael Wood
    10235 reads

    16- The US Use of White Phosphorus Shells in Fallujah: Revisited
    9914 reads

    17- The George Galloway Sky Interview.
    5877 reads

    18- For Services Rendered: Mark Oaten has been, ahem, paying rent
    5847 reads

    19- Music not Politics: Some free preview tracks from Mark Wilson
    4843 reads

    20- Blair - The Knives Are Out.
    3918 reads

For once, I find myself in complete agreement with Andrew over at B4L - he comments on his top 20:

these are not necessarily my 20 favourites, nor the 20 best - I blame the general public entirely:

 

But when it comes to understanding what our respective blogs are about, and perhaps more importantly what readers take from them, a top 20 ordered by number of hits gives a pretty good snapshot.

[ btw, please leave any comments here, rather than over at B4L, it cuts down on the stamping of feet! ]

 

I wonder who ghosts half

On February 27th, 2007 copydude says:

I wonder who ghosts half these faux propaganda blogs.  Obviously ghost blogging does not attract writers of calibre. How about this typical entry from 'Harriet  Harman's Blog' :

Feb 24
Just back from the conference of the Welsh Labour Party in Llandudno. I hadn’t realised how beautiful that north Wales coast is. Where the mountains of Snowdonia come down to the sea. Very different from South London! I’m back home now but feeling so proud of what Labour in the Welsh Assembly has done - together with Labour councils and the Labour government.

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heh heh heh funny how they

On February 28th, 2007 quarsan says:

heh heh heh

funny how they never seem to mention any of the issues. the fact that one about a fish got twice as many as their second most popular says something and you can see from their figures that their readership levels are rather low, to put it mildly.

Rather like New Labout content is very thin, there's very little about issues of importance and it's got the whiff of the school prefect's diary about it. As the author describes his own posts: graceless, bad tempered. indeed.

One also marvells at the hypocrisy of someone who could write this advice for blogging

As a general rule, using a blog to mount attacks on one's political opponents is very unattractive to readers, and should be kept to a minimum – unless it can be done with great style and wit!  Criticism has its place, but appearing too negative, or too partisan can reduce your credibility.

And then throw their toys out of the pram in his hilarrious post about us!

Tony Blair is wooing some of

On March 6th, 2007 lifesastumblingblock (not verified) says:

Tony Blair is wooing some of America's biggest billionaires with a Downing Street reception during his final days in power.

Lady de Rothschild said the Blair reception was intended to help develop Britain’s cultural heritage and it was generous of the prime minister to participate. “Tony Blair doesn’t need this to network,” she said. “It’s about Britain, not about Tony Blair.” yeah right!

She said the drinks with the Blairs were not being used as a selling point but were the “icing on the cake.” whoopee doo

But, the date of the event isn't until Saturday June 16.
(year not stated!)

Times article via Mathaba

Surely Blair would be guilty

On March 6th, 2007 peacewisher says:

Surely Blair would be guilty of misappropriating public funds and misusing public office if he went ahead with such a blatantly self-assisting scheme as entertaining and wooing billionaires as he leaves office. He is in No. 10 to serve the public, not himself.

If the police have sufficient evidence that a crime is about to be committed, don't they have the powers to intervene?

He'll get away with it

On March 6th, 2007 Davide Simonetti says:

He'll get away with it because the price of a seat is a $25,000  donation to the Tate gallery, even though this is still selling access to the Prime Minister. What interests me is that Blair brought in a law which forbids criminals to profit from their crimes, so if Blair is convicted in the cash for peerages scandal then he shouldn't be allowed to sell his book or go on the lecture circuit.

Blair's billionaires

On March 6th, 2007 frog says:

Blair's billionaires deserves a thread, surely ? It would smoothly morph into opinion and info on the Dear Leader's future...

The Blair School of Government

The US lecture circuit

The Book

The Blair Foundation

etc

nice ones, lifesa, peace, and davide.