I demand a recount

Many thanks to those who voted for me in the Witanagemot blog awards, I was awarded the second place in the category for Welsh Nationalist blogs along with Ordovicius who came first and Blog Menai who came third.

However I think that there is something wrong with the way the votes were counted.

How could
Bethan Jenkins or
Iain Dale possibly be considered more shaggable than
Me?

Is it all a bit of fun?

Despite the fact that I only received two nominations in the Welsh Blog Awards, it appears that I am the second best Welsh Political Blog and the best Welsh Nationalist Blog in the WITENAGEMONT awards!

I am rather annoyed that I wasn't even nominated in the "Most shaggable blogger" award, the fact that I didn't top the poll on this one shows how uninformed those who vote in blog awards are!

Everybody else who has won an award has been modest and accepted that such an award is just a bit of fun. But it's not. Despite not having made a post today I have had a huge amount of extra hits, all coming from the Witengemont awards URL.

As the purpose of any blog is to be read, gaining extra readership through winning blog awards, can't be dismissed as just a bit of fun.

Where awards are available for blogs, there is always the danger that authors compromise their position in order to post for the award, rather than to campaign for their genuinely held political opinion.

As awards = hits, I can get more awards by compromising my views in order to get more support in the awards next year, thus increasing my hits even further!

So thanks for the award, Witengemont, but - no thanks - I don't do compromise and I don't blog for awards!