The LDV Friday Five: 10 December 2010

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

1. Opinion: A letter from students to Lib Dem MPs (111 comments) by The Voice
2. Tuition fees: which way will MPs vote on Thursday? (76 comments) by Mark Pack
3. LibLink: Tuition fees roundup (108 comments) by NewsHound
4. Opinion: tuition fees – our moment of truth (92 comments) by David Allen
5. Nick Clegg on life with the Conservatives, tuition fees and the coalition’s future (93 comments) by Mark Pack

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

Why I am staying in the party
10% levy on ministerial pay helping to fund party
Yes to AV lead campaign
You have recieved a new email from Nick Clegg
What level will fees be set at?

5 from the LDV archive

(29th October, 2006-09)
1. Opinion: But is it really time for a change? (21 comments) by Bill le Breton, from 2009
2. Chamali Fernando shortlisted by Cambridge Conservatives (14 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
3. Chris Fox appointed new Lib Dem Director of Policy & Communications (11 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
4. Opinion: What should the new leader do in his first 100 days? (21 comments) by Paul Walter, from 2007
5. “Beyond Rennardism”: Responses to Chris R’s Lib Dem News article (1 comment) by Richard Huzzey, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
1. yes to fairer votes
2. david allen liberal democrat
3. list of lib dem mps
4. libdem hashtag
5. tuition fees

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

>> @CllrIainRoberts If you call yourself an anarchist, yet want a bigger State that spends more money, you are an idiot.
>> @LiberalSmithy Lib Dems now control Truro Council after a by-election gain. Pop the funeral on hold, haters…
>> @Laurie1984 How have we spent all our political capital on a policy we don’t even want, when the Cons have used none of theirs?
>> @djm4 Waiting at Derby station. Always get twinges; there’s a parallel universe me who became a railway engineer here after leaving university.
>> @andershanson My favourite street name in Oldham so far http://plixi.com/p/61878686

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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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  • Does anyone have a copy of Chris’s LDN article referred to above. I wondered if it might make an interesting revisit in the light of the failure of campaigns dept strategy to “deliver the bacon” at the General Election.

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