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. Europe: what Liberal Democrats have been saying today (101 comments) by Mark Pack
2. Opinion: What Cameron should be doing in Brussels (59 comments) by Jonathan Fryer
3. David Cameron’s a hostage to his party and the right-wing press. Thank goodness for Nick Clegg (42 comments) by Stephen Tall
4. Opinion: Danny Alexander is right (29 comments) by Zadok Day
5. “An inept negotiating strategy placed in the hands of an inexperienced prime minister” – behind the scenes of Cameron’s ‘veto’ (35 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. F&H by-election
2. A Christmas letter to Santa
3. MPs and tithing
4. Young People
5. A moribund local party

5 from the LDV archive

(16th December, 2006-10)

1. LibLink: Chris Huhne – The biggest energy market shake-up in 25 years (9 comments) by NewsHound, from 2010
2. Should all fun events in December have to include “Christmas” in their title? (6 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2009
3. “A more coherent liberal position” (38 comments) by Alix Mortimer, from 2008
4. Vince snubs Cameron courtship (16 comments) by Richard Huzzey, from 2007
5. Scottish coalition turning frosty as election nears (0 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2006

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. liberal democrat blogs
2. george kendall
3. lib dem forum
4. lib dem conference 2012
5. roger crouch lib dem

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

10 O’Clock news: Cameron looking lost, Miliband looking lonely (in a sweater), Clegg looking like a Prime Minister. #justsaying

— Tom Morrison (@ThomasMorrison) December 11, 2011

Ironic that Daily Mail accuses Nick Clegg of talking Britain down – same paper which tells us we’re nation of feral, addicted benefit cheats

— Caron Lindsay (@caronmlindsay) December 12, 2011

Ok, aside from the needlessly long speech, Andrew Rosindell just moved a bill meaning the government decides when Eid is. That’ll end well.

— Ben Mathis (@binny_uk) December 13, 2011

The Committee stage of my Live Music Bill has been completed and so we are another step closer to its implementation

— Don Foster (@DonFosterMP) December 14, 2011

Read Wikipedia page on the Higgs Boson. Still don’t understand it. If someone understands particle physics better after today, it’s not me.

— Zoe O’Connell (@zoeimogen) December 13, 2011

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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…