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
- Opinion: Dr Strangelove: or how I got utterly fed up with the Left (118 comments) by Jack Williams
- RIP Margaret Thatcher (42 comments) by The Voice
- Paddy Ashdown pays tribute to Margaret Thatcher (and shows Nick how it’s done) (66 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Opinion: Is UKIP a threat to community cohesion? (54 comments) by David Hennigan
- Liberal Democrats pay tribute to Lady Thatcher (26 comments) by The Voice
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- Return to 50p top rate
- Loyalty Card schemes for local high streets
- Missing postcodes
- Clegg says drunks who get into fights should repay NHS costs
- Double or triple the Jobseekers Allowance?
5 from the LDV archive
(12 April, 2007-12)
- Should we become a nation of contented losers? (15 comments) by James Graham, from 2007
- Clegg does the culture clinic (4 comments) by The Voice, from 2008
- Opinion: ‘Dirty tricks’ politics is destroying British democracy (15 comments) by Matt Wood, from 2009
- Lib Dems on Labour’s manifesto: “Every Labour manifesto since 1997 has been full of promises they have broken” (2 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
- Opinion: How are councils making savings? (14 comments) by Rob Blackie, from 2011
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- ukip
- margaret thatcher
- minimum wage 2013
- paris brown
- national minimum wage 2013
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
blimey, this Thatcher grief malarky is all going a bit North Korea for my liking.
— Pimlicat (@pimlicat) April 10, 2013
I spend lots of time on the W4MP jobs website, fawning over jobs I’m not able to apply for because I’m at university. #confessionsofalibdem
— Cadan ap Tomos (@violacadan) April 10, 2013
Lib Dem Ministers @dannyalexander & @nick_clegg on the phones this eveningtwitpic.com/cin2dq
— Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) April 11, 2013
Conservatives stealing Liberal Democrat policies, no surprise then! Lowering income tax was on LibDem manifesto cover youtube.com/watch?v=yIZj0N…
— Conor McKenzie (@ConorMcKenzie) April 12, 2013
He gets everywhere, that man. #fb twitter.com/binny_uk/statu…
— Ben Mathis (@binny_uk) April 12, 2013
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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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“Margaret Thatcher” – Second most popular search term to get to Liberal Democrst Voice? – T
he “dead parrot” wreaks its final revenge.