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Our apologies to LDV readers who’ve found themselves deprived of our company for the last couple of hours. As regulars will know, we do run into these occasional technical problems – normally it’s near the end of the month when our bandwidth limit’s been exceeded and we need to shove another 50p in the meter. This time we collapsed under the strain of search engine requests (as I understand it from our tech-wizard Ryan who genuinely does understand it).

Paul Walter over at his Liberal Burblings blog has helpfully posed the question ‘Should we have a whip round for LibDem …

Don’t forget, if you’re a party member you can register for the Lib Dem Voice members’ forum. You’ll be in good company: there are 879 registered members, all of whom have the opportunity to read and post on a rich variety of topics which don’t always make it into the public blog, as well as having the chance to vote in LDV’s monthly tracking surveys. Here’s a selection of the currently active threads to whet your appetites:

>> Organ donation: presumed consent?
>> Is their a link between crime and Immigration in the UK?
>> The Return of Ken Clarke
>> What to

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We’d say a big thank you to the 210,706 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in 2008, up over 167% up on the comparable figure for 2007 (78,962). For the record, the comparable figure for Iain Dale’s Blog was 601,182.

In December alone, we welcomed 20,047 absolute unique visitors, up 40% on the comparable figure for 2007 (14,249).

Whether you’re a regular here, or an occasional ‘popper-by’, we’re delighted you looked in. And if you enjoy reading LDV, why not try writing for LDV?

* Google’s term: it broadly means people using over 210,000 different computers visited …

Don’t forget, if you’re a party member you can register for the Lib Dem Voice members’ forum. You’ll be in good company: there are 854 registered members, all of whom have the opportunity to read and post on a rich variety of topics which don’t always make it into the public blog, as well as having the chance to vote in LDV’s monthly tracking surveys. Here’s a selection of the currently active threads to whet your appetites:

>> Parliament and the police
>> Locked doors and delivery
>> Menezes jury told it cannot give unlawful killing verdict.
>> Brain Paddick on I’m a celebrity
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We’d say a big thank you to the 19,753 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in September, our highest total ever, and a whopping 157% increase on a year ago. Whether you’re a regular here, or an occasional ‘popper-by’, we’re delighted you looked in. And if you enjoy reading LDV, why not try writing for LDV?

* Google’s term: it broadly means people using nearly 20,000 different computers visited LDV at least once.