I’ll (might) be posting something more about this later (I lost a bet), but in the meantime here’s the list of Top 50 Lib Dem blogs, as voted for by 1500 crazy people (crazy people with good taste!). The full list is on The Voice.
Congratulations to the many varied, wonderful and interesting blogs that made this list, especially Mr Quist and Mr Thompson who, I’ve absolutely no doubt, will thrash me next year – although considering how these things seem to work, there’s going to be a few brand new blogs that are going to make us look like boring old has beens any minute! I think Caron’s said it best though – the order doesn’t really matter, this is a great showcase of LD blogging – Lib Dems aren’t some homogeneous blob – we’re as varied in real life as we are in our politics. I won’t ever accept that’s a bad thing. 
I just want to say thank you very much for voting me into such an embarrassingly high position – I’m genuinely gobsmacked to have pipped the Mighty Voice, never mind the terrifying competition from Mr Quist and Mr Thompson. I fear for my safety at Conference. That Helen Duffett packs a mean punch and Stephen Tall has been known to chase reprobate libertarians around with sticks for many many hours.
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
Jennie said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:20 pm
Bwahahahahahahahaha you’re part of the Establishment now
Stu said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:20 pm
Congrats, Charlotte. You’re blog’s the most readable and interesting one out there on teh internets right now. You deserve it.
Jennie said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:23 pm
* hands Stu the mouthwash for use after that stellar bit of arse-licking *
O:-)
Stu said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:26 pm
Why the hell are people voting for such a rubbish blog as this one, Charlotte? FFS why do you keep writing this trite nonsense?!
…Nah, that just doesn’t have the same ring to it, somehow.
Jennie said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:27 pm
I’m going to PEE myself laughing if she wins the BOTY at conference too.
Newmania said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:31 pm
Very readable blog this good info -tainment . I just cannot see how any sort of Libertarian or free market philosophy can be squared with membership of a Party who have been the Party most determined to to expand the role of the State not to say the Super State. So for me there is always a glaring dishonesty about it.
Where were the Liberals when it came to defending smoking or hunting , where were they when Conservatives took on the Unions ,( in a Lib Lab pact.) When were they ever any use in defending individual freedoms ?
I gather you are pro floods of immigrants which is I suppose a distinctively Liberal Position ( supported by no-one at all)
Its an odd mixture but you are right someone without any special concern for the people of this country could not be a Conservative
Stu said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:33 pm
@Jennie Do you reckon she’d self-destruct on the spot? Could we see some spontaneous human combustion?
She IS a witch, after all. Burns easily.
Jennie said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:37 pm
I think there could be a spontaneous re-enactment of that scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“She turned me into a NEWT!
…
I got better….”
Charlotte Gore said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:39 pm
lol I just need to promise to do somethign incredibly stupid again if I win, seemed to work this time.
Of course could turn up to the Party thing dressed as a witch…
Charlotte Gore said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:40 pm
actually I might need to sponsor Jennie again, this time, “Charlotte Gore is not a Witch”
Jennie said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:44 pm
I have a witch outfit you could borrow for Halloweeny dress up purposes.
If you want to sponsor me again, you’re in a queue and the price has gone up.
Constantly Furious said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:52 pm
Ding! Masthead kittehs FTW!
Charlotte Gore said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:53 pm
Ding
haha ya I dinged! Level cap dude!
Charlotte Gore said...
1 Sep 09 at 12:55 pm
Damn. Wonder if I should agree to carry some sponsorship to fundraise for Bournemouth accomodation?
Jennie said...
1 Sep 09 at 1:02 pm
We really ought to sort that out. Do you still want a lift down with us?
Stu said...
1 Sep 09 at 1:02 pm
What, laser-kitteh doesn’t pay for his prime location?
Shameful!
Charlotte Gore said...
1 Sep 09 at 1:09 pm
I don’t think so Jennie, I’m only booked into a hotel for one night (Sunday 20th) so I’ll be doing my own thing.
It’s all a bit of a nightmare really.
Jennie said...
1 Sep 09 at 1:11 pm
Fair enough!
Caron said...
1 Sep 09 at 3:18 pm
You have to go to BOTY dressed as a witch! That would be class. Don’t scare Millennium, though. That would never do.
I’m just so sorry that I’m not going to be there to see it.
Seriously, though, many congratulations. If a left leaning peace loving hippy like me can love the blog of a libertarian like you, then it shows how good you are at what you do. You totally deserve it and hopefully you’ll grace us all with your presence in Scotland some time so we can feed you beer.
Oh, and I seem to recall something about a video if LDV wasn’t number 1……….
Blackacre said...
1 Sep 09 at 3:52 pm
I was going to offer congratulations but don’t want to butt in on a private conversation…
Charlotte Gore said...
1 Sep 09 at 3:57 pm
Jennie said...
1 Sep 09 at 4:42 pm
Blackacre, I’m sure Charlotte doesn’t mind and I certainly don’t.
Laurence Boyce said...
1 Sep 09 at 5:26 pm
Brilliant Charlotte. And great to see Liberal Vision at 6 and SLF at 47. Tee hee. Don’t worry about next year’s list. You’ll be party leader by then – Clegg having failed miserably at the election. You did put in for the Halifax PPC, right?
nader said...
2 Sep 09 at 12:29 am
congrats on becoming no. 1
x
Charlotte Gore said...
2 Sep 09 at 12:31 am
Thanks Nader
burkesworks said...
2 Sep 09 at 1:55 am
But Jennie! Charlotte’s not a witch; in fact she reminds me rather more of Zoot from Castle Anthrax…
Anyway, congratulations to you on the No. 1 spot Charlotte. While I can’t honestly say that I agree with you all the time, when you get it right you get it absolutely right (I’m thinking particularly wrt Dick’s post tonight). See you down the pariahs’ section outside t’pub soon
Stu said...
2 Sep 09 at 7:39 am
Highly disappointed in the lack of video on the front page of this site. I’m filing a bug report.
Steps to reproduce: type http://charlottegore.com into browser’s address bar; press return key.
Expected* Behaviour: Click-to-play video appears within browser, featuring Charlotte Gore.
Actual Behaviour: No video. Just lots of links to other sites.
I repeat: disappointed!
* Indeed, PROMISED.
Newmania said...
2 Sep 09 at 9:32 am
Ha I see I am the bad fairy at the celebrations . Well I did not mean to be nasty at all; it is a great blog .I still say, however, that Libertarian politics and Liberal Democrats are oil and water.
When cuts have to be ,made you see how much support the Conservative Administration gets from Clegg. None is my guess
Devil's Kitchen said...
2 Sep 09 at 9:41 am
Glad to see that my vote wasn’t entirely wasted…
DK
Jennie said...
2 Sep 09 at 9:57 am
urkesworks: you’re only saying that because you want to handle her easily
Matt Wardman said...
2 Sep 09 at 11:15 am
I *wish* that Pack had been beaten by the Pink Dog.
BenSix said...
2 Sep 09 at 5:09 pm
Congratulations!
Even the proles, wriggling beneath your feet, would have to applaud.
Al Jahom said...
2 Sep 09 at 7:28 pm
Well done, Charlotte.
Very well deserved.