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The LDV Friday Five: 14 January 2011

By | Fri 14th January 2011 - 8:53 am

It’s Friday, so here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Those Oldham East and Saddleworth polls: what do they mean? (94 comments) by Stephen Tall
  2. By-election polls: Labour 17% ahead – or 1% (71 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. The Times’ advice to voters in Oldham: “They should vote Lib Dem.” (43 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. Opinion: One good reason to vote Lib Dem (49 comments) by Richard Clare
  5. Vincent McKee suspended from the Liberal Democrats (43 comments) by The Voice

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. STV Software
  2. Barnsley Central by-election
  3. 2011 registrations and security information
  4. Putting the Coalition into a Manifesto
  5. New HQ?

5 from the LDV archive

(14th January, 2007-10)

  1. First-Past-The-Post: the ‘safe seats’ system that breeds lazy, corrupt MPs (21 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  2. Opinion: Why not try democracy for a change? (3 comments) by Stephen Marshall, from 2009
  3. PMQs: banks, boom and bust (9 comments) by Alix Mortimer, from 2009
  4. Gareth Epps reviews manifesto conference (16 comments) by Gareth Epps, from 2008
  5. More on Rochdale: Lib Dems take overall control of council (0 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. nick clegg
  2. brian coleman
  3. yes to fairer votes
  4. nick clegg writes to aaron porter
  5. richard grayson

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @djm4 I have printer’s ink staining my fingers, blisters on my feet and ‘Letterboxes’ earworming my brain: yes, I’ve been delivering Focus.
  • @caronmlindsay BBC happy to dismiss future Lib Dem electoral prospects but fail to report major speech by Deputy PM on civil liberties on 10 news #typical
  • @DrEvanHarris Drama on train back to London. Passenger took illl & they asked for a doctor. All he got was an orthopaedic surgeon & me. Poor sod!
  • @Callum_Leslie Oldham by-election done. As @Pres_Bartlet would say, What’s Next?
  • @SandraGidley No one thanked the returning officer. Shocking #oes

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