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Your Top Ten Political Blogs – Vote Now

It’s that time of year again, when Total Politics asks you to vote for your Top 10 favourite blogs. The votes will be compiled and included in the forthcoming book, the Total Politics Guide to Blogging 2009-10, which will be published in September.

The rules are simple.

1. You must vote for your ten favourite blogs and ranks them from 1 (your favourite) to 10 (your tenth favourite).
2. Your votes must be ranked from 1 to 10. Any votes which do not have rankings will not be counted.
3. You MUST include ten blogs. If you include fewer than ten your vote will not count.
4. Email your vote to
toptenblogs@totalpolitics.com
5. Only vote once.
6. Only blogs based in the UK, run by UK residents or based on UK politics are eligible.
7. Anonymous votes left in the comments will not count. You must give a name
8. All votes must be received by midnight on 31 July 2009. Any votes received after that date will not count.

Your support would be greatly appreciated, dear readers!

Follow Me On Twitter

Just another friendly reminder that as well as this website, you can also follow me on Twitter@cllrilindley.

For those readers who are new to Twitter, here are a few Salford- or Conservative-related Twitter feeds worth following:

Seems our local media are very proactive in embracing new media, then!

Downtime

My apologies for the unavailability of this site over the last day or two. There has been a problem with my hosting company’s server hardware – a “catastrophic failure of the embeded network cards” (whatever that means). Everything should be back to normal now – please contact me if you encounter any further problems.

Follow Me On Twitter

Just a quick reminder that in addition to this website, you can also follow me on Twitter@cllrilindley.

A Few Changes…

Regular readers will notice that I’ve started to make a few changes to the site. It’s very much a work in progress and I’ll have a more professional-looking banner in place soon. Please bear with me while I make the updates and if you have any suggestions for site improvements do let me know!

Blogroll – New Year Clean-Up

Well it’s a fresh start for 2009, so I’ve had another trawl through my blogroll and removed a handful of sites which no longer seem to be updated. As always I welcome suggestions for new sites to add to my blogroll although of course I can’t promise to add all suggestions made.

WordPress 2.7

I’ve just upgraded the site software to the latest version of WordPress (2.7). They’ve changed the administration area entirely and it’s going to take a bit of getting used to! As always, if you spot any problems with the site that have arisen after the upgrade please leave a comment and let me know – thanks!

About Cllr Iain Lindley’s Diary

For new visitors and to remind old hands, I thought I’d do a quick end-of-year recap of what this website is for and one or two house rules.

About

I’m Iain Lindley and this is my website. I won’t bore you with a long biography (although I will be adding an updated one to the site soon) but I’m one of three Conservative Councillors for Walkden South Ward in Salford and I’m the Deputy Chairman of the City of Salford Conservative Federation.

I’ve been blogging for around four years now, although unfortunately to my great regret and due to some technical issues outside of my control (outlined here) the archive for the current incarnation of this blog dates back only to September 2007.

I was one of the first Councillors (of any political persuasion) to blog, and my reasons for doing so now are no different from what they were four years ago. I think it’s important to keep local residents as up-to-date as possible with what is going on in the local area, and I try to do that where possible through this website. It’s also a platform for me to let others know what I’m up to and what I think about various issues.

I make no apologies for the focus on local issues in Walkden, Salford and Greater Manchester – that’s what this blog is about – but I do also make more general comments and I hope that there is enough here to interest visitors to this site regardless of where they come from.

I’d like to thank everyone who has visited this site over the past four years, and particularly those who have contributed to the discussion or linked to this site from their own blog or website.

House Rules

I welcome debate on this blog and regular visitors will testify that I am more than happy to allow political opponents to come onto the site and debate. I’m particularly keen of course to hear from local residents in Walkden and from across Salford.

If you’ve posted a comment recently you will be aware that all comments are now held for moderation until they have been viewed by me. I did this in response to a glut of spam comments which had evaded my spam protection. I do not remove many comments, but whilst I believe in free speech please be aware that this is a private site and as site owner I feel responsible for what is posted on it. I have not and never will delete comments simply because I disagree with them, but if I feel they are offensive, distasteful or potentially libellous they will be removed. Please keep it clean too, boys and girls! :)

Twitter

Just a quick reminder that you can follow me on Twitter. As you may have noticed, my Twitter updates are also posted in the right-hand sidebar of this website.

Merry Christmas!

Just a quick message to wish a very Merry Christmas to all readers of this blog and local residents in my ward of Walkden South and across Salford!

Thank-you to everyone who has read this website over the past year, and particularly to those who have contributed to the debate (even when I’ve disagreed vehemently!) or linked to this site from their own blog or website.

I’ll be posting sporadically over the festive period but I will be back to full strength in the New Year for what promises to be an extremely interesting 2009.

Referring Sites – November 2008

Here, as usual, are the top ten sites which referred visitors to this weblog in the month of November. Thanks once again to everyone who has a link to this blog on their website!

1. Google Search
2. Direct Hits
3. Walkden Conservatives
4. Salford Conservatives
5. Yahoo Search
6. David Ottewell’s Politics
7. Live Search
8. British Blogs
9. AOL Search
10. Bellgrove Belle