The LDV Friday Five: 16 March 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. A letter from Andy Burnham to Liberal Democrat members (62 comments) by Andy Burnham MP
  2. Baroness Shirley Williams writes… I am fed up with lies about Lib Dems and the Health Bill (50 comments) by Shirley Williams
  3. Round-up of initial reactions to the Lib Dem conference NHS Bill vote (50 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. What Lib Dem members think about the NHS Bill: 57% opposed, but majority might back it if significantly amended (18 comments) by Stephen Tall
  5. EXCLUSIVE: What Lib Dem members say about the party’s direction and Nick Clegg’s leadership (42 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. It’s About Time for Equal Marriage
  2. Parliamentary boundaries
  3. Demos credits Lib Dem policy. Perhaps people will listen
  4. Price of conference accomodation
  5. As the elephant in the room sleepwalks into our very DNA…

5 from the LDV archive

(16th March, 2007-11)

  1. Interview: Life with Lord Ashdown is no Werther’s Originals advert (3 comments) by Nick Thornsby, from 2011
  2. The 39 Labour MPs who are 100% authoritarian (0 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  3. Are you squandering the votes of 1 in 10 of your supporters? (0 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2009
  4. Criminals of the future? Police call for children’s DNA to be stored (113 comments) by Alix Mortimer, from 2008
  5. Nice things about Lembit (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. shirley williams
  2. lynne featherstone
  3. lib dem conference 2012
  4. liberal insight
  5. purdah

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

If you are a Lib Dem who tweets, and would like to be added to Ryan’s Lib Dem Tweets aggregator, drop him an email at [email protected]

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

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