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
- Tim Farron MP writes… Exemptions to accreditation for Transgender colleagues (63 comments) by Tim Farron MP
- Desperately thin stuff – Observer fails to reveal Lib Dem ties with Murdoch (27 comments) by Stephen Tall
- PMQs: Wouldn’t you also crack under this sort of pressure? (19 comments) by Paul Walter
- Opinion: You can’t have ‘growth’ without ‘austerity’ (37 comments) by David Thorpe
- Clegg: Gay marriage vote not a matter of conscience (36 comments) by Paul Walter
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- A Question for Republicans over the Diamond Jubilee
- Tips for Campaigning at Pride
- Fun game
- MEP conversion
- An app for that
5 from the LDV archive
(June 1st, 2007-11)
- Opinion: Anti-reform peers shame our party (26 comments) by Stuart Bonar, from 2011
- So, what does a Special Adviser do? (18 comments) by Duncan Brack, from 2010
- Nick Clegg: at home in more ways than one (1 comment) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
- A look back at the polls: May (21 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
- Opinion: My Tony years (7 comments) by Jeremy Hargreaves, from 2007
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- neil hughes 56 up
- jane collins
- neil hughes
- shutt newby
- bishop peter ball
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
A huge amount of credit should go to @stephen_gilbert for his victorious #pastytax campaign. Mmmm, #coalicious
— Phil Reilly (@phil_reilly) May 28, 2012
Daily Mail has uncovered that Lib Dem MPs are ‘forced’ to vote for human rights. Outrageous!
— Chris Jenkinson (@chrisjenkinson) May 29, 2012
Anyone else feel absence of a #jubilee greeting (e.g. Merry Christmas, Happy Easter) someone in Policy Unit suggests “lovely jubilee”
— Olly Grender (@OllyGrender) June 1, 2012
Lib Dem MEPs swing key vote to stop ACTA threat to internet freedomphilbennion.org/en/article/201…
— CarlMinns (@carlminns) June 1, 2012
Lib Dem fmr Cowley St HQ plagued by false fire alarms, unhappy fireman tells me as 2 engines rushed there. No fire, just damp apparently
— Ross Hawkins (@rosschawkins) June 1, 2012
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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…


