It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:
5 most-read stories on LDV this week
- Ed Balls: My starting point is we are going to have keep all the cuts (32 comments) by Mark Pack
- My ‘Super Thursday’ Lib Dem post mortem (61 comments) by Stephen Tall
- The other local elections: Lib Dems gain five and hold three (28 comments) by Helen Duffett
- PCC elections & Corby by-election results open thread… (51 comments) by The Voice
- Teather: “Benefit cap is immoral and divisive” (74 comments) by Stephen Tall
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- New Ashcroft polling – People think Lab wouldn’t do cuts
- Rotherham byelection 29th November 2012
- Writing email newsletters
- CofE votes NO to women bishops
- The appalling subjugation of Gaza
5 from the LDV archive
(23 November, 2007-11)
- Crikey, these special advisors are rather cheap (1 comment) by Mark Pack, from 2007
- Absent Conservative peers assist Labour in Lords votes (1 comment) by Mark Pack, from 2008
- Lib Dem HQ: read what Nick said, not what the press reported! (68 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
- In Government for all the right reasons: the David Laws interview (40 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
- Opinion: Lib Dems should welcome and put into practice most of the High Pay Commission’s recommendations (9 comments) by Prateek Buch, from 2011
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- pcc election results
- mansion tax
- lib dem news
- nick clegg
- corby by election result
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
is very pleased to see his friend Lynne Beaumont win a council by-election in Folkestone this evening
— Colin Ross (@colinross1975) November 23, 2012
Dear Tories. In #Hackney today, I had hellim cheese, a salt-beef bagel and some crazy alcoholic Polish chocolate. Multiculturalism kicks ass
— Ben Mathis (@binny_uk) November 19, 2012
Someone just complained about letterboxes on our local party mailing list. Yes, I replied with the obvious lines…
— Zoe O’Connell (@zoeimogen) November 23, 2012
My Lib Dem email cup overfloweth recently, anyone would think there were internal party elections on.
— Nick Bason (@nickbason) November 23, 2012
Hello! @adlibmag is a new monthly magazine for @libdems. Subscribe here: bit.ly/T3uJqmWe’re on Facebook too: on.fb.me/UIhxXx
— AD LIB (@AdLibMag) November 21, 2012
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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…
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