Stephen Tall

Lib Dem members’ favourite political blogs ranked

By | Sat 6th October 2012 - 2:15 pm

Lib Dem Voice polled our members-only forum before conference to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. More than 550 party members have responded, and we’re publishing the full results.

Guardian’s CiF tops poll: almost half Lib Dem members read it

LDV asked: Which other politics blogs (if any) do you read? Please tick all that apply.

Five points worth noting, I think:

  • Interesting to see the dominant market position of Comment is Free, with 46% of Lib Dem members in our survey reading it;
  • Also interesting to note how Huffington Post has quickly established itself;
  • Almost four-in-five (78%) Lib Dem members read at least one political blog;
  • Group blogs now dominate the blogosphere — UK Polling Report and Nick Robinson are the only one-man-band blogs read by more than one-in-10 of you;
  • Of the 8% who specified ‘Others’ only Daily Kos was mentioned more than once (along with some Lib Dem bloggers).
  • Over 1,200 Lib Dem paid-up party members are registered with LibDemVoice.org. More than 550 responded to the latest survey, which was conducted between 19th and 22nd September. NB: most responses received before Nick Clegg’s apology broadcast.
  • Please note: we make no claims that the survey is fully representative of the Lib Dem membership as a whole. However, LibDemVoice.org’s surveys are the largest independent samples of the views of Lib Dem members across the country, and have in the past offered accurate guides to what party members think.
  • For further information on the reliability/credibility of our surveys, please refer to FAQs: Are the Liberal Democrat Voice surveys of party members accurate? and polling expert Anthony Wells’ verdict, On that poll of Lib Dem members.
  • The full archive of our members’ surveys can be viewed at www.libdemvoice.org/category/ldv-members-poll

    • * Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.

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    9 Comments

    • paul barker 6th Oct '12 - 2:28pm

      While I am glad to see so many reading Con Home its a pity that we seem to be getting most of our labour news from Cif. I would reccomend labour uncut (moderate) & labour list (soft-left) as the best sources.

    • bazzasc 6th Oct '12 - 2:42pm

      Dave Page

      Guardian is ‘Labour’ is it?

      Who did they support at the next election, and continue to support in editorials?

      I post on CiF and suggest it is the most left-wing of the blogs and your current popularity (or lack of it) on there is due to your own party’s actions and support of Tory policies more than any great desire for the return of Labour.

    • Chris_sh 6th Oct '12 - 2:51pm

      @Dave Page
      “Wonder what that says about the viewpoints of respondents.”
      Probably nothing as it is perfectly possible that the 30% who read Con Home also read CIF and may also read Guido or the whole lot. If it has to say something, perhaps it is that LDV readers like to take a broad view of politics.

      I agree with Paul Barker though, it does seem a shame that some blogs aren’t as popular as CIF and would recommend Labour Uncut or Labour List. But there again I would also recommend John Redwood’s Diary as he often has an interesting (and sensible) viewpoint.

    • Chris_sh 6th Oct '12 - 2:54pm

      @bazzasc

      “Who did they support at the next election”
      Slip of the keyboard there by any chance? 😀

    • bazzasc 6th Oct '12 - 3:22pm

      Chris_sh

      Either that or just gross stupidity….lol

    • Chris 6th Oct '12 - 3:24pm

      Surely ‘Guardian-reading’ used to be almost a cliche in relation to the Lib Dems?

    • jif 7th Oct '12 - 8:06pm

      so only me admitted to reading peter hitchens blog then?

      🙁

    • Martin Lowe 9th Oct '12 - 8:04pm

      One thing to bear in mind is that someone reading a blog/source doesn’t necessarily mean they agree with it.

      I suspect I’m not the only person who reads around to understand the rationale of others.

      (I draw the line at Guido though – I don’t want to give him the site hits)

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