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The LDV Friday Five: 13 April 2012

By | Fri 13th April 2012 - 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. Reading Labour Party leaflet’s “born and bred” racist innuendo: will Labour now apologise and withdraw it? (68 comments) by Stephen Tall
  2. Tim Farron replies to Lib Dem members’ letter: “Britain must be more liberal and free as a result of Liberal Democrats in power, not less” (32 comments) by The Voice
  3. An open letter to Lib Dem party president, Tim Farron: Concerns over our liberal identity and mission in government (48 comments) by The Voice
  4. Mary Ann Sieghart socks it to Quentin Letts for his “witheringly misogynistic” assault on Lynne Featherstone (21 comments) by Stephen Tall
  5. Labour’s not-so-very-local election broadcast shows how unimportant local decision-making is to Ed Miliband’s party (22 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. It was twenty years ago today
  2. The penny droppeth?
  3. MPs resigning to become Mayors
  4. Our opponents write a cringeworthy poem
  5. Parking near sports stadia

5 from the LDV archive

(April 13th, 2007-11)

  1. Opinion: Debating AV with the Evening Standard (16 comments) by Matt McLaren, from 2011
  2. Over 13,000 raging against the election – and for the Lib Dems – on Facebook (10 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  3. The Independent View: Statebook – knowledge is power (1 comments) by Jim Killock, from 2009
  4. Why Gordon Brown is reminding me more and more of John Major (5 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2008
  5. Premiere of Welsh Liberal Democrats’ broadcast (0 comment) by The Voice, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. david walter
  2. team london gla
  3. farron asa
  4. bill le breton
  5. lib dem conference brighton 2012

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

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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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