First of all can
I wish you a Happy New Year?
I posted 37 blogs
this year, and as you will see May’s Westminster election utterly dominated the
blogging. So without further ado, here’s
the top ten best read posts out of those 37. All brought
to you by Thin Lizzy's 'Yellow Pearl', the song that was appropriated as the Top Of The Pops theme tune 35
years ago.
At 10 is a post
about the bumbling oaf that somehow survived the cull of pro-Union MP’s. Carmichael Must Stay pointed out that his
lies were not the biggest whoppers told in British politics this century and
that there’s just a little hypocrisy in the pursuit of someone clearly out of
his depth.
There are two
posts at joint 8th place. The first one
being the General Election 2015: Tale Of The Tape post. The other post at number 8 - The Other Victors - looks at where the SNP
go from their biggest ever Westminster Election result. At 7 is the post looking at the campaign as
we were Entering The Final Lap. That
post also noted the new Scottish political landscape in microcosm being played
out here in Paisley with New Labour loyalist ‘Wee’ Douglas Alexander poised to
fall to ‘Yes’ campaigner Mhari Black.
Just outside the top five is a post from the other end of the campaign –
The General Election Starts Here. The
one where I point out that Cameron would still be in Number 10 and that Ed
Balls was in danger of losing his seat.
Take that Iain Dale!
Into the top five
now, and the fifth best read blogpost of the year is the post about those so
called allegations surrounding the then newly chosen SNP candidate for Paisley &
Renfrewshire South – In Defence of Mhari Black.
At four is a post written in the aftermath of Jim Murphy & “Scottish”
Labour being slapped down by Chukka Umuna and the other London based
Blairites. Why, Thank You Chukka Umuna was also
inspired by the utter cluelessness of Renfrewshire councillor Terry “You’re a bigot”
Kelly. Nice to see him get the exposure
for his utter cluelessness.
Top three time
now. The third best read post of 2015
looks at the possible policy options available to the SNP for this years
Holyrood Elections while arguing against what was at the time The Referendum Shaped Elephant In The Room. The First
Minister has managed to successfully kick the issue of a second Independence
referendum into the grass. Whether that
grass is long enough remains to be seen.
At number two is the post that at that point outlined exactly how many election
leaflets I had received - Labour 9, SSP3, Conservative 1, Lib Dem 1, SNP 0.
To no-one’s
surprise, given how much it was tweeted at the time, the most read post of 2015
was my response to Chris Deerin’s own piece “Scotland Has Gone Mad”, which was
titled “Yip, Scotland Has Gone Mad. But...”.
Unlike Iain McWhirter (and several other Cybernats), I wasn’t offended
but surprisingly found things I agreed with.
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