A Politician's Priorities

I just happened to click through to the blog of James Cleverly MP for Bexley and Bromley, to read about an amusing little one liner that Boris Johnson had made.

James has taken the very sensible step of tagging his posts, so that it's easy to see in an instant exactly what he talks, thinks and cares about the most. Here's a small sampling:

• #1 - Spin (82 posts)


• #4 - Fun (62 posts)




• #10 - David Cameron (39 posts)


• #23 - Campaigning (20 posts)


• #27 - Bexley [his constituency] (14 posts)




• #39 - Islam (2 posts)


• #40 - Darfur (1 posts)


• #40 - Human Rights Act (1 posts)


• #40 - Spice Girls (1 posts)


• #40 - Russia (1 posts)


• #40 - Women (1 posts)

Quite telling, no?

Well, this got me thinking, maybe this was just a one off - perhaps I'm not being fair to politicians. Or, perhaps I am.

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David Jones, MP for Clwyd West does slightly better, although he does appear to talk about people a lot more than say, issues:

• #1 - Gordon Brown (58 posts)




• #2 - David Cameron (15 posts)


• #2 - Peter Hain (15 posts)





• #9 - Liverpool FC (2 posts)


• #10 - Afghanistan (1 posts)


• #10 - China (1 posts)


• #10 - Welfare (1 posts)


• #10 - Jazz (1 posts)


• #10 - Transformational Government (1 posts)




• #? - Clwyd West [his constituency] (0 posts)

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Half an hour of trawling the internet later, I can't find any other politician-bloggers that actually bother to tag their posts. Interesting to see the wide gap between those who've set up their blogs themselves (godawful design that should be taken off the internet) to those that had the money to get a very professional job done though.