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
- The end of Chris Huhne’s career in politics: initial reactions (74 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Equal marriage: 2 Lib Dem MPs against and a further 9 (or 10) Missing In Action (164 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Eastleigh by-election (24 comments) by Mary Reid
- Our congratulations to Mark Pack – and, alas, a farewell to him (5 comments) by Stephen Tall
- ++Eastleigh by-election on February 28 (19 comments) by Helen Duffett
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- First Eastleigh Opinion Poll
- Eastleigh: Labour seeks an amateur!
- Local by-elections never in the news!!!
- Suggestions for Eastleigh leaflets content
- Borgen
5 from the LDV archive
(8 February, 2007-12)
- Lembit does an impression of the Angel of the North (3 comments) by Caron Lindsay, from 2012
- Government to follow me on holiday? Give me a break! (7 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
- 25 more things (3 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2009
- Million sigs vs Blair (3 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
- Two things to do in the Snow (1 comment) by Alex Foster, from 2007
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- national minimum wage 2013
- eastleigh by election
- alison suttie downing street
- chris huhne
- miranda grell
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
Eastleigh by-election: Tories pin hope on anti-gay marriage, anti-Europe local via @telegraph soc.li/ww4XtpS
— Sam Fisk (@samfisk93) February 8, 2013
That Eastleigh poll is great news for the Lib Dem campaign.We usually start much further behind when we win.
— Neil Fawcett (@neilfawcett) February 7, 2013
Liberal Democrats I’m cancelling my birthday party to campaign in #Eastleigh. You have no excuses.
#byelectionbirthday
— Matt Downey (@MattDowney1342) February 6, 2013
We’re planning to take a group over to campaign in Eastleigh. Anyone want to join us?
— Brussels Lib Dems (@BrusselsLibDems) February 8, 2013
No matter who you are and who you love, we are all equal. #equalmarriage
— Nick Clegg (@nick_clegg) February 5, 2013
If you are a Lib Dem who tweets, and would like to be added to Ryan’s Lib Dem Tweets aggregator, drop him an email at [email protected]
That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…
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The Sun story about Chris Huhne that was a total invention (and which the other papers happily copied)
11 Liberal Democrat MPs vote for registrars to be exempt from marrying same sex couples
How Liberal Democrat MPs voted on same sex marriage amendments
Same sex Marriage: another Liberal Democrat victory
Opinion: Why Lib Dems should support the Referendum on the EU – and let’s have it before 2015
Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP writes…An EU-US trade deal would be good for Europe and for Britain
Opinion: An EU exit would be bad for Britain; it is our job to explain why
Opinion: Some thoughts on the NHS from a recent patient
“Is the coalition government doing enough to encourage social mobility?”
Just because you murder someone, it doesn't mean your views are worth hearing
We should turn Britain into a tax haven
Project 6000 comes to Windsor Avenue
A chillingly bizarre aspect of yesterday's ranting butcher video
San Francisco in 1951 as seen from a U.S. Navy submarine
Green Belt - Proposals to build on it from Sefton Council could see Maghull's population rise by 20%!
Senior civil servants on the town
Seaside Award Winning Sandgate Beach: The Best in Shepway?
Woolwich murder: there are some things we just don't need to know
Stuart Mitchell
Simon Shaw
paul barker
Eddie Sammon
Mack(Not a Lib Dem)