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The LDV Friday Five: 11 March 2011

By | Fri 11th March 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. Barnsley Central result: Labour win, Lib Dems sixth (197 comments) by The Voice
  2. LibLink: Dominic Carman – What it’s like to be the most despised man in the town political correctness forgot (and come SIXTH in a by-election) (69 comments) by Nick Thornsby
  3. Nick Clegg: we’re making the rich pay their fair share of tax (40 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. Linda Jack writes: Nick Clegg – demonstrating what he’s for (18 comments) by Linda Jack
  5. Opinion: NHS reforms need careful examination (38 comments) by Felix Greaves

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Yesterday’s by-elections in Burnley and Southwark
  2. Caroline Pidgeon
  3. Special Members’ Lib Dem news
  4. RollCall [who’s at Spring Conference]
  5. MPs and tithing

5 from the LDV archive

(11th March, 2007-10)

  1. LibLink: Nick Clegg’s demands for a post-election deal (12 comments) by NewsHound, from 2010
  2. Huhne: police officers with criminal convictions should be sacked. (Question: should they?) (15 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Voters want double Euro referendum – Times poll (7 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
  4. Opinion: The ‘five tests’ raise deeply worrying questions about strategy (0 comments) by Charles Anglin, from 2007
  5. Legal trouble ahead for the Tories? (5 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. dominic carman
  2. katie ghose
  3. purdah
  4. office of tax simplification
  5. poll lib dems left

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @julianhuppert A No2AV MP tabled an EDM attacking the Electoral Reform Society for, erm, supporting Electoral Reform. I’ve tabled an amendment… #Yes2AV
  • @stuartbonar Definition of how #fptp works: everyone votes and most of the time someone most people don’t want wins. #yes2av
  • @johnpotterLD Bag packed and off to #LDConf – Humbling to think that my vote my make or change govt policy. No other party gives me that voice #libdems
  • @ibrahimtaguri Lib Dems budgeting 4 a surplus this year & are outgunning Labour in individual donations. Both in cash terms & nos of donors #ldconf
  • @ibrahimtaguri LD leaving Cowley Street cos its an old building not suited to a modern political office. Tech, staffing & org needs have moved on #ldconf

    • 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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