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The LDV Friday Five: 12 August 2011

By | Fri 12th August 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. Opinion: Leading Labour figures guilty of the worst kind of opportunism (63 comments) by David Parkes
  2. Opinion: Don’t make Guido’s day (30 comments) by Simon McGrath
  3. What caused the riots? It’s more than just the economy, stupid. (41 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. David Laws set for ministerial return in autumn? (31 comments) by Stephen Tall
  5. Brian Paddick writes: Lessons from the Tottenham riots (10 comments) by Brian Paddick

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Social media block for rioters?
  2. Is Dan Snow a Lib-Dem?
  3. Rubber bullet anecdote
  4. US debt settlement a catastrophe
  5. What counts as BAME?

5 from the LDV archive

(12 August, 2006-09)

  1. LibLink: THE shock of election night (29 comments) by NewsHound, from 2010
  2. Opinion: there’s no pleasure in saying ‘I told you so’ – but does it need saying? (58 comments) by Alex Marsh, from 2010
  3. Smaller Commons ‘would hit Lib Dems’ (33 comments) by Sara Bedford, from 2010
  4. Clegg impresses MoneySavingExpert.com (4 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2009
  5. Activate – reviewed by a participant (5 comments) by Mark Whiley, from 2009

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. martin shapland
  2. louise mensch
  3. team london gla
  4. david laws
  5. “warren swaine”

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @miss_s_b Actual rioters http://bit.ly/puYWUZ Mostly white, with jobs, over 18. Can we stop shit about it all being black kids on benefits now please?
  • @joswinson quite shocking – Duchess of Cambridge looks lovely just as she is… http://bit.ly/qDNqta
  • @johnleechmcr Ran out of time before thanking everyone who turned up to help the clean up yesterday
  • @brianpaddick No Labour-like knee jerk reactions please. Banning social media another step closer to totalitarian state. Sanctions if used for illegality?
  • @DanielFurrUK Repeat after me: Bert and Ernie are NOT REAL.

    • 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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