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
- Reading Labour Party leaflet’s “born and bred” racist innuendo: will Labour now apologise and withdraw it? (68 comments) by Stephen Tall
- 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
- An open letter to Lib Dem party president, Tim Farron: Concerns over our liberal identity and mission in government (48 comments) by The Voice
- Mary Ann Sieghart socks it to Quentin Letts for his “witheringly misogynistic” assault on Lynne Featherstone (21 comments) by Stephen Tall
- 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
- It was twenty years ago today
- The penny droppeth?
- MPs resigning to become Mayors
- Our opponents write a cringeworthy poem
- Parking near sports stadia
5 from the LDV archive
(April 13th, 2007-11)
- Opinion: Debating AV with the Evening Standard (16 comments) by Matt McLaren, from 2011
- Over 13,000 raging against the election – and for the Lib Dems – on Facebook (10 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
- The Independent View: Statebook – knowledge is power (1 comments) by Jim Killock, from 2009
- Why Gordon Brown is reminding me more and more of John Major (5 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2008
- 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)
- david walter
- team london gla
- farron asa
- bill le breton
- lib dem conference brighton 2012
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
Please sign this petition supporting Equal Marriage – a policy brought in by the Lib Dems, now part of a… fb.me/1PzkxK7RH
— London Liberal Youth (@ldnliberalyouth) April 13, 2012
Unlike many Tory and Labour administrations every Liberal Democrat authority in England has frozen council tax #LibDems
— Jonathan Fryer (@jonathanfryer) April 11, 2012
Nick Clegg webinar at LDHQ@ Liberal Democrat HQ instagr.am/p/JSs2xSSz5R/
— Simon Cooper (@simoncooper) April 11, 2012
Thanks to all those helped me during my 20 years as an MP. It’s been a real privilege working for Bath over the last two decades.
— Don Foster (@DonFosterMP) April 12, 2012
20 days till polling day.
— Luke Richards (@hypnotic) April 13, 2012
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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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