Why no Scottish Tory blogs?

I was genuinely going to write this post today and then Scottish Tory Boy went and blew it out of the deep blue water by announcing a shock return to the blogging fold. Ah well, I'll crack on anyway...

There is a plethora of SNP blogs up here in Scotland (of course), varying in quality perhaps but still there nonetheless. Labour are making a much better fist of an online presence with a few new blogs popping up which are all well worth a read and the Greens and Lib Dems are batting on with several established blogs doing their bit.

So why no Tory blogs?

For me, the gap was perhaps filled by Political Dissuasion although it's not an out-and-out Tory blog by any stretch of the imagination and it's gone worryingly quiet of late. Boot and Flogger came and went and Tory Bear will surely lose most of its scant Scottishness now that he is immersed in London-life and busy bringing down Cabinet Ministers. Malc in the Burgh isn't scared of the Tartan Tory tag to be fair, not that he'll thank me publicly for saying it.

But that's pretty much it.

Looking at Iain Dale's recent top referrers the list is chock-full of right-of-centre blogs and Tory MPs but then the Scottish Round Up is distinctly left-wing.

Granted the Tory party north of the border is not the same force as it is down south but I would have thought that it had sufficient members, researchers and activists to make a decent fist of an online presence, particularly when it has 4 left-ish rivals to contend with and reams of 'big Government' policies to counter, not to mention they are on the cusp of being in power at Westminster for a decade or so. The Tory tails should be well and truly up.

Balance in blogging is healthy, necessary even, as every debate needs at least two sides to it so I hope the Tories can get some more blogs on the go before the next election comes around.

After all, it's an awful burden for the prodigal Tory Boy to carry on his own. Is that fatted calf ready yet...?