II can get to the homepage, but the 2008 page fails every time!

I had problems earlier through but eventually was able to vote - suspect there is a last minute push for both of the leading weblogs (createdinbirmingham and Melanie Phillips). As mentioned above, voting doesnt close until 10pm tomorrow so there is still every thing to play for.

it's very possible that they may be blocking access to those clearly coming from "encouraging sites" like this one. suggest you copy that link, then go to to some neutral site like google and then paste the link into your address bar and get to it that way via google.

38% vs 33% in the correct favour!! at the mo.............. keep voting! Different machines tomorrow!!

In fact whenever I try to post to this site my protection software tells me I shouldnt do it and I have to override it. So Im sure there is all sorts of funny stuff going on.

We need to get the whole Indymedia community onto this - it will be a horrible thing if she succeeds. Here's a really telling pice published in the Jewish Chronicle a while ago by the journalist Jonathan Freedland, himself Jewish, in which he warns people about Phillips. The article is entitled 'The Danger of Melanie Phillips' and needs to be circulated far and wide.

Escerpt and link to full article :

"But it was a sentence in Melanie’s January JC column that really got me going. “Individual Palestinians may deserve compassion,” she wrote, “but their cause amounts to Holocaust denial as a national project.” Read that line again. I have, along with the entire piece that preceded it. Think about what it means: that the Palestinian urge for national self-determination — their desire to have what we Jews yearned for so long, a homeland of our own where we might govern ourselves — is nothing more than a collective plot to deny Jewish suffering. So those Palestinians living under curfew and hemmed in by checkpoints aren’t angry about this hardship or desperate to throw off a 40-year occupation. No. Their shared desire, their national project, is to join David Irving in pretending that Hitler did not murder six million Jews. Of course, it follows that such people — a nation of neo-Nazis — deserve nothing, let alone a state of their own."

The full article here - Freedland makes a good job of exposing her for what she is. NB she is wheeled out by all the major UK media outlets routinely - 'the moral maze, Richard & Judy - whoever and whenever basically'. She has a high profile and if she wins this award it will be a monumental offence to the people of Gaza and Palestine. "

 http://www.jonathanfreedland.com/articles/archives/0003....html

NB - voting ends at 10.00pm tomorrow - there is obviously a lot of activity on the ukweblog award website and it is still slow to respond but Created in Birmingham still in the lead but touch and go given the potential numbers of internet voters that could be wheeled out between now and 10.00pm tomorrow.

more votes needed!!!!!

Created in Birmingham - 40.1%

The dumb one Phillips - 34.1%

I hereby declare her loser!

You could always tell her  http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3214871/weblog-awards.thtml