Best blogs in Scotland - my take

The top 25 Scottish political blogs were announced by Total Politics today.

I was delighted to come in at 21.  Thank you so much to everyone who voted for The View from the Hills

I was particularly delighted to be in between Gerry Hassan and Iain Mcwhirter as they are both writers of such quality.  I was also delighted to see such a consistently good blog project as Better Nation come out top - people voting for a good blog not just a known name there.

Also glad to see such well written blogs like Burdzeyeview - the Burd's so well put together, researched and prolific - and Lallands so original and at times magnificently written.

There is an obvious lack of Labour bloggers - perhaps a few will come out in other categories or in future years we will see people like Ian Smart being mentioned.  Less surprising to see no Tory blogs.  However, they do in other places produce some thoughtful and sometimes the most witty blogs.  Maybe Mugwump and Tory Hoose will help redress the balance.

The Greens are strong too with Bright Green and Suitably Despairing both so well put together and still a sprinkling of greenery amongst the thistles at Better Nation.

Glad I'm in with at least 4 LibDems.  This is good to keep up the tradition given Mr Glenn has moved to Norn Ireland and the sad passing of Mr Reeves - glad he is getting recognised all over Total Politics :) 
Caron of course is missing but will appear high up in other categories.  Also missing is an excellent writer like Douglas Mclellan (Midlothian Liberal or Independence Minded Liberal) and maybe will see Scots Gazette in future years.

Finally I like to think I am really in the top 20 as the SNP official website isn't really a blog and the Total Politics people forgot to exclude it when they produced their results :D.

Here are the full results (last year in brackets) 
 

1	(-) Better Nation
2	(6) Bright Green Scotland
3	(2) Underdogs Bite Upwards
4	(15) Lallands Peat Worrier
5	(-) A Burdz Eye View
6	(-) Labour Hame
7	(-) Andrew Reeve's Running Blog
8	(9) Sub Rosa
9	(26) Bella Caledonia
10	(-) Dundee Westend
11	(23) Scot Goes POP!
12	(17) Go Lassie Go
13	(-) A Scottish Liberal
14	(-) Newsnet Scotland
15	(-) Suitably Despairing
16	(35) Moridura
17	(22) Kezia Dugdale
18	(47) Munguin's Republic
19	(-) SNP.org
20	(24) Gerry Hassan
21	(-) View from the Hills
22	(27) Iain Macwhirter Now and Then
23	(-) Alba Matters
24	(-) The Shoogly Peg
25	(-) Universality of Cheese