THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Munguin and I would like to say a very sincere thank you to all of you who voted for Munguin’s Republic in the Total Politics Scottish Blogs poll.

It came as a total surprise to find ourselves mentioned; I only found out about it when I was reading James Kelly’s post on the poll.

That of course reminds me that I also wanted to offer my congratulations to the other winners... and of course in particular to our bloglist mates who are also on the winners list. SNP Tactical Voting, Subrosa, Scot Goes Pop, Iain Macwhirter Now and Then, Scots and Independent and Dark Lochnagar.

I guess political bloggers of whatever shade, use their space on the internet to try to put across their political viewpoints, so many of which are so sadly neglected by a poor press in Scotland. The national newspapers, Herald, Scotsman and Record give scant political analysis of any depth and of and impartiality.

As for the Scottish editions of the English press, I have been appalled to read about Ken Clarke, the Justice Secretary and his prisons programme on main pages of the Scottish Daily Telegraph and of some scandal or another attaching itself to a prisons minister in the Scottish Daily Mail (that paper gets more ‘red top’ by the day). Neither paper bothered to point out that they were talking about English ministers. The BBC treats Scotland with contempt, and can only ever stir its stumps at all for one party; its party.

So we do our bit and we hope that someone reads us, and that just maybe a little more enlightened discussion follows from what we write.

Anyway thanks again. I didn’t think I'd ever care about being in a top 50 (albeit at 47) but I’m a bit chuffed!!

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PS: Oms... if you’re reading this, and I really hope you are, cheers mate. It was about this time last year you were pushing me to do it!