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The Egregious Tory Tosser is running his Westminster Village willy-waving contest again. My aim in publicising this is simple. I want to get as many people as possible to vote for blogs written by people who don't have willies to wave, who don't concentrate on gossippy rubbish, and who actually have something to say. I'm not one for positive discrimination, as you know, but I am pig sick of the political blogosphere being painted as a self-congratulatory boy's own club which is obsessed with Westminster gossip. My method for subverting this, then, is to vote entirely for female-written blogs. YMM, obvs, V.

Here are the rules:

1. You must vote for your ten favourite blogs and rank 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 at least FIVE blogs in your list, but please list ten if you can. If you include fewer than five, 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. No blog will be excluded from voting.
7. Anonymous votes will not count. You must give a name.
8. All votes must be received by midnight on 31 July 2010. Any votes received after that date will not count.
9, DO NOT list on your blog ten blogs you think your readers should vote for. Any duplicate voting of this nature will be disallowed.

Please ensure you stick to the rules, and vote for anyone other than the boring usual suspects like the egregious Tory Tosser and Guido.

For your edification, here is who I have voted for:

1, Debi Linton - http://innerbrat.livejournal.com/
2, Liz Williams - http://lizw.dreamwidth.org/
3, Helen Duffett - http://helenduffett.blogspot.com/
4, Caron Lindsay - http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/
5, Pickwick - http://pickwick.dreamwidth.org/
6, Sara Bedford - http://sarabedford.org.uk/
7, Purple Pen - http://purple-pen.livejournal.com/
8, Tajasel - http://tajasel.dreamwidth.org/
9, Charlotte Gore - http://charlottegore.com/
10, Penny Red - http://pennyred.blogspot.com/

Please note that I publish them in the spirit of openness and transparency, and NOT to tell anyone else who to vote for.

I urge you (ALL of you!) to vote early, vote ONCE (or your vote won't be counted), vote for the girls. Oh yes, and if you DO decide to publicise this yourself (and I heartily encourage you to do so - in fact, you can copy and paste this post wholesale if you like, as long as you put your own list of blogs you voted for in there instead of mine) DO NOT link to the Egregious Tory Tosser's blog in your post. His ranking is QUITE high enough as it is.

ETA: a thought. If everyone who reads this puts Debi for their number one, whoever else they put for the other nine, this will be a good way to make the point. It'll be like Rage Against the Machine being Christmas number one. And it'll really wind Debi up... ;) Do please vote for other people than I did in the other nine places, though, so as to not fall foul of the duplicate voting rule.

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