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The LDV Friday Five: 11 February 2011

By | Fri 11th February 2011 - 5:00 pm

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. Lord Oakeshott departs as a Lib Dem Treasury spokesman (44 comments) by Mark Pack
  2. What Labour’s manifesto actually said about electoral reform (64 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. Lib Dem council leaders attack Pickles over speed and scale of cuts (31 comments) by Sara Bedford
  4. Opinion: there are better adjectives for the Labour Party than ‘progressive’ (55 comments) by Richard Morris
  5. What the think tanks are saying: The IPPR on “How much is Labour to blame?” (25 comments) by George Kendall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. How do we get the achievements in coalition message across?
  2. Votes for Prisoners
  3. Egypt
  4. Tax evasion/avoidance
  5. PPCs for the next General Election

5 from the LDV archive

(11th February, 2007-10)

  1. LDV party members’ survey: Nick Clegg approval rating at +66% (0 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  2. How can we sell the Single Transferable Vote to the public? (40 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  3. Evan sticks up for drug adviser in ecstasy row (5 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  4. DLT: Community Politics (5 comments) by Sictionary of Liberal Thought, from 2008
  5. Lib Dem MPs flock to Facebook (3 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. purdah
  2. ld mps
  3. lord oakeshott
  4. mental health strategy
  5. richard huzzey

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @julianhuppert Prison has arguably 4 roles. Disincentive, punishment, public safety & rehabilitation. prisoner voting is not a disincentive to commit crime
  • @strmrgn Under today’s ruling Eric Illsley could stand to be a MP again, but wouldn’t be able to vote for himself
  • @Lucy_Watt Well it cheered me up to see two older gay men affectionately resting/sleeping against each other on a packed tube. #itgetsbetter for sure.
  • @ibrahimtaguri I am at the Dept of Bizzle, Izzle & Skillz #hiphoppolitics
  • @jonathanfryer The #BNP will try to make a big splash in the #BarnsleyCentral byelection. It’s important other parties get their vote out

    • 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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