The LDV Friday Five: 13 January 2012

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. Lib Dem Peers rebel as Government defeated on Welfare Reform (40 comments) by Caron Lindsay
  2. Lib Dem council candidate in trouble over online comments (3 comments) by Prateek Buch
  3. Opinion: Scottish independence – bleak consequences for LibDem and Labour Westminster representation (34 comments) by David Franklin
  4. How the left/right balance of Liberal Democrat voters has changed (28 comments) by Mark Pack
  5. Lord German writes… A benefits system that works: the Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Lords (34 comments) by Mike German

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Ideas for increasing membership
  2. Mansion Tax
  3. Young People
  4. How it was before just before the merger
  5. Reorganising the government

5 from the LDV archive

(13th January, 2006-11)

  1. ‘Cowley Street’ may not be ‘Cowley Street’ for long (28 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2011
  2. Clegg calls for full gay equality – what will Cameron do? (51 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
  3. Lord Tebbit’s praise for the Lib Dems’ tax plans (33 comments) by Sara Bedford, from 2010
  4. Congratulations to Brian (0 comments) by The Voice, from 2009
  5. Telegraph has it both ways (2 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. duwayne brooks
  2. lib dem conference 2012
  3. welfare reform bill
  4. national defence medal
  5. david laws

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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One Comment

  • Ruth Bright 13th Jan '12 - 6:59pm

    Item 4 lists 28 comments – presumably not counting the ones LDV censored!

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