Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 246th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (30 Oct-4 November, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

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As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

1. Why I’m not signing up to Compass’ Plan B on Gareth Epps’ blog.
Gareth’s three reasons (though he does welcome the debate).

2. Bunch of disgruntled Lib Dems resort to plan B by Angela Harbutt on Liberal Vision.
“No story there then,” says Angela.

3. How the Liberal Democrats are recovering on Cicero’s Songs.
“The Liberal Democrats, dismissed as irrelevant or worse, are actually achieving far more than the media is giving them credit for.”

4. Lib Dem By-Election Gain & The New Scottish Tory Leader on Nic Prigg’s blog.

5. Labour voters would prefer Con-Lib coalition to Lab-Lib coalition by Richard Clare on A Brief History of Liberty.
So says the TNS-BMRB poll..

6. How do you predict how Liberal Democrats are going to do in an election? Easy. by Richard Clare on A Brief History of Liberty.
Richard goes pattern-spotting.

7. Lib Dem Caddick in Inverness by-election thriller by Caron Lindsay on Caron’s Musings.
“It wasn’t until the sixth and final stage of the AV count that Liberal Democrat Carolyn Caddick pulled ahead of her SNP rival to win by just 7 votes, 1091 to 1084.”

And now to the five blog-posts that come highly recommended, regardless of the number of Aggregator click-throughs they attracted. These are normally chosen using the LibDig bookmarking website for party members, the site where you can highlight blog-posts you want to share with your fellow Lib Dems. Remember, though, you’re still more than welcome to nominate for the Golden Dozen a Lib Dem blog article published in the past seven days – your own, or someone else’s – using the steam-powered method of e-mail … all you have to do is drop a line to .

8. Eric Pickles is lying, ladies and gentlemen, start your Risos… by Mark Valladares on the View from Creeting St Peter.
“Mark explodes the latest suggestions from Eric Pickles” (Submitted by oneexwidow via LibDig.)

9. What would David Cameron have answered on women if it hadn’t been for LibDems? by Caron Lindsay on Caron’s Musings.
“Caron illustrates how different things would be if the Tories were going it alone.” (Submitted by oneexwidow via LibDig.)

10. That cartoon……… by Caron Lindsay on Caron’s Musings.
“A thoughtful and measured piece from Caron on an unfortunate incident” (Submitted by oneexwidow via LibDig.)

11. Why Occupy is a Threat to Liberalism by Toby MacDonnell on Cerebral Liberal.
(Submitted by Toby MacDonnell via email.)

12. Helping Local Lib Dem Parties to Engage, Recruit and Develop Members on Jazz Hands Serious Business.
Where to get advice, training and information on how to develop your local party’s membership.

And that’s it for another week. Happy blogging ‘n’ reading ‘n’ nominating.

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