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Once upon a time, when we would only get a couple of new joiners per month, I used to announce all the new ones in a post. I haven't written one of those posts for a while, and far too many new blogs have appeared since those days, but I will try to rectify that with this list. It's pretty much everyone from the past 2 or 3 months. Yes, there's a vast number - the upcoming local elections may be partly responsible. Some you might not yet have heard of, some might have only dipped a toe in the water (so to speak), though some are already well-established.

Anyway, here's the list (most recent first):

• Keep Labour In
• Blogging4Merton - Blogspot from a Labour Merton councillor seeking re-election in Pollards Hill South London and a member of London Borough of Merton
• Living Ghosts Endurance Challenge - The Living Ghosts Endurance Challenge is a campaign to highlight the plight of failed asylum seekers living on a Red Cross food parcel and just £5 a week.
• Dan Jackson - Labour candidate for Preston ward in North Shields in the 2006 local council elections
• Thirsk and Malton - A blog for the Thirsk and Malton CLP. We're newly formed to pre-empt the boundary change due at the next general election. Everything around here is safe Tory, so it's pretty tough getting anybody to listen. Doesn't mean we don't have anything to say!
• Avondale Ward - Paul Corazzo is a Labour Councillor representing Avondale Ward on Kettering Borough Council
• Mildmay Labour - A blog charting the activities of Mildmay Labour Party in Islington.
• Eynesbury Rose - For the Eynesbury Ward of St Neots, Cambridgeshire
• Dear Diary - Lithgo Finni
• EC1 Cruise Control - Musings from my life on the fringes of the coattails of the London Media Left.
• Ian Robertson - A personal view of what goes on in and around Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council from the perspective of Middleton.
• B - transience is here to stay
• Julian Mott - What's happening in Horninglow, Burton on Trent (my ward) and my role as a councillor.
• One Perfect Rose...? - Life, literature and the Labour Party
• Barbara Portwin - Labour candidate for Village Ward, Southwark, South London.
• David Miliband - Minister of Communities and Local Government at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
• Lewis Atkinson - News and views from Lewis Atkinson: Labour candidate for the Cleadon & East Boldon ward of South Tyneside council.
• Jon Worth Euroblog - All the latest EU politics, comment, and analysis.
• Seb's Blag - Are you looking for incisive, intelligent, satirical commentary on current affairs, politics, race, and religion? Well, I wish you the very best of luck in your search. In the mean time, why don't you come and look at my blog?
• Waspish - The online equivalent of shouting at the telly
• New Jerusalem - A Christian Socialist and depressed Sunderland fan
• John Tyrrell Blogs - John Tyrrell blogs from Birmingham, England about local, national and international issues.
• Madoc Councillor - Labour Councillor for Plas Madoc, near Acrefair, in Wrexham.
• Skuds' Sister's Brother - Please send me evenings and weekends
• Softy Lefty Catchy Monkey - Liberty, equality and the other one.
• Dlogs - Dan Miller's blog
• Geoff Blog - Geoff Bridson's blog, Labour Party campaigner in Didsbury East
• Claire Hamilton - Claire Hamilton is Labour’s youngest councillor. Elected at 21, she overturned a sizeable Tory majority to win a seat on Hyndburn council in Lancashire.
• Khevyn Limbajee - Khevyn Limbajee is a 33-year-old TV producer standing for Waltham Forest council in London.
• Miranda Grell - Miranda Grell is a Labour activist in Leyton Ward in London borough of Waltham Forest
• North of the River - If evil triumphs because good women do nothing, I want to make sure no-one can blame it on me. My blog is about being a young person - 28 in normal years which is more like 3 in local politician years - and being involved in local politics.
• Take back the voice - Come on the journey of the goings on within Manchester labour and labour students as we approach the local elections. Experience the unique style of politics within the students union.
• Gareth Griffiths - Labour Councillor for Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales
• Hakmao
• TUC Organising Academy - This blog records the work and activity of the TUC Organising Academy. Set up in 1998, the Organising Academy has trained over 250 new union organisers and has made a significant contribution to the development of organising amongst trade unions in the UK
• Skipper - UK politics, parliament, and the press - Bill Jones, political author.
• Richard Williams - Living in Crystal Palace SE London. Originally from Penmaenamwr, North Wales.
• Stodge - An exciting blog built by Randi Mooney.
• A Far Fetched Resolution - Where pickles (the most rigid of all the dogs) chews the scattered bones of battlefields of the intercanine battles of the UK left, whilst cocking the odd leg against the lampost of the Tory "revival".

Congratulations if you've read this far down. Being a hardcore reader, you might be wondering why it's been 8 or 9 days since my last post. Well, apathy, blogger's block, and general business ('busy-ness' would have been a less grammatical, though clearer alternative phrase) at work. However, I have been working on something else... quite what that something else is will be revealed in due course!