This last year has seen two very interesting bloggers bust onto the Lib Dem scene. First Costigan Quist who’s made a name for himself by actually reading the details that journalists don’t. If someone says that eating custard doughnuts makes you 103% more likely to develop exploding bowel syndrome, he’s right there pointing out that what they really mean is that instead of 1 person every year, it’s 4 people every three years. This is where he’s making a real name for himself, and I hope he can keep it up.

More recently, Mark Thompson (of the Mark Reckons blog) who’s created an absolutely humongous splash very quickly with his remarkable discovery of a correlation between the size of an MP’s majority and their propensity to make claims that fail the ‘would a reasonable person think this is reasonable?’ test.

Perhaps the mentality of ’safe seat’ MPs is different to those with tiny majorities. Perhaps there’s more of an ingrained sense of entitlement to what’s owed, of having ‘earned’ a safe seat through service to the party or through importance. Either way, this discovery has made it’s way into Polly’s column in the Guardian and Alix Mortimer asks if he’s now the most influential Lib Dem Blogger.

Once again the power of original content (rather than merely echoing what’s said elsewhere – which this post is a classic guilty example) is demonstrated, and the ability for anyone to start a blog and make an impact almost immediately is demonstrated.

Nice one Mark, keep it up