It seems I have won 14 - yes, fourteen! - awards in the 2007 Witanagemot Club blogging awards. Details are HERE and HERE. I won Best Tory Blog, Best Right Wing blog and rather worryingly, Best Centre-ground blog. Even more bizarrely I won Blogger Most Likely to Vote for a Donkey if you Slapped the Correct Colour Rosette On it. I regard it as a badge of honour.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
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It seems I have won 14 - yes, fourteen! - awards in the 2007 Witanagemot Club blogging awards. Details are HERE and HERE. I won Best Tory Blog, Best Right Wing blog and rather worryingly, Best Centre-ground blog. Even more bizarrely I won Blogger Most Likely to Vote for a Donkey if you Slapped the Correct Colour Rosette On it. I regard it as a badge of honour.
How nice to be popular Iain.
ReplyDeleteIs there room on your mantle for all those gongs at Dale Towers????
Ah yes, the donkey, otherwise known as the Grant Shapps astroturf memorial award.
ReplyDeleteMr Dale,
ReplyDeleteTo His Grace's great surprise, he also won an award, and came second only to you twice.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Blessings,
+Cranmer
If the donkey had a West Ham shirt....are they saying you're a bit simple, Iain? That's a funny kind of award. It's like - the 'tell him he's a bit thick' award. Don't worry. He's so thick he won't notice that it's actually an insult.
ReplyDeleteI don't care what they say. This blog is a great event on a near daily basis. .. I learn so much about who's who and what's really going on.
Iain Dale won't let it all go to his head. Anyway he gets a lot of his assessments wrong so he can't.
Iain, as the runner-up in the category "Most Likely to Vote for a Donkey if you Slapped the Correct Colour Rosette On it" can I say I am honoured to finish behind you on this one. The strange thing is I always think both of us are more critical of our own Party than many others seem to think. My own MP would be staggered to think I am regarded as a Labour loyalist.
ReplyDeleteBob, you are right. I'm thinking of compiling a list of all the times i have criticised David Cameron and the Conservative Party. Maybe that would silence those who think I am some kind of party patsy! I may not be Ali Miraj, but I have my moments!
ReplyDeleteIain you are a Conservative and Bob is Labour, you both criticise your party from time to time, but you share some common traits. You wear your political badge with honour, but neither of you can be accused of being a party patsy.
ReplyDeleteYou both try to be measured and balanced in your criticism of your own party, display loyalty to friends which is something to be admired and although I don't always agree with your views that always comes through.
The fact that neither you or Bob are shrinking violets when it comes to attacking the opposition seems to be regarded as a fault, when in reality it is a basic requirement for a councillor and an aspiring parliamentary candidate.
"Iain: I'm thinking of compiling a list of all the times i have criticised David Cameron"
ReplyDeleteAre you running a parallel blog that you are not telling us about?
I am honoured to finish behind you on this one
ReplyDeleteMust ... resist ... the urge ...
Well done - but best right-wing, and best centre-ground - there's some flaw in the selection procedure there, surely.
ReplyDeleteThese awards are, er, great. They maybe need some new categories: anarchist, libertarian or republican.
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as a political centre-ground Peter, only the illusion of it. People are ethier Libertarians or they are Socialists.
ReplyDeleteIain. Doesn't getting fourteen awards, commendable though that might be, give you a feeling of currency devaluation?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations nonetheless.