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The LDV Friday Five: 17 June 2011

By | Fri 17th June 2011 - 5:00 pm

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. Liberal Democrats receive Queen’s Birthday Honours (8 comments) by Helen Duffett
  2. Forgotten Liberal heroes: Richard Lillicrap (1 comment) by Dan Falchikov
  3. Opinion: The cap doesn’t fit, so don’t wear it (65 comments) by Tim Leunig
  4. Liberal Democrats confirm new central campaigns teams (2 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. Opinion: Time for that Lib Dem tax cut in full? (44 comments) by Nick Thornsby

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. The Good Society vs community politics
  2. Tim Farron at glee club
  3. What counts as BAME?
  4. Tax reform
  5. NHS reform v2

5 from the LDV archive

(17th June, 2007-10)

  1. LibLink: Nick Clegg – Why it’s time for families to come first (15 comments) by NewsHound, from 2010
  2. Opinion: Wanted – A Liberal Plan for Europe (25 comments) by Gordon Frankland, from 2009
  3. David Davis: Why I think Clegg called it right (just about) (34 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
  4. Opinion: Will we have to be socialist to be green? (18 comments) by John Dixon, from 2007
  5. Tories to reverse free entry for museums (7 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. andrew reeves
  2. sophie bridger
  3. julian huppert
  4. lembit opik
  5. team london gla

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @OllyGrender Objective take on the tuition fees – well worth reading – http://t.co/tMwOlRo by Martin Lewis of moneysaving.com
  • @LibDemFerdy Recruited 2 new members. It was like preaching to the converted. Into party website and took them by the hand. #LDYellowBrickRoad
  • @caronmlindsay Lots of new Lib Dem blogs – 14 – on @libdemvoice today. All written by men. Blogging is great fun and we need more women.
  • @CllrDaisyBenson interesting fact: the Liberal Party responsible for getting the name of the candidate on the ballot paper (in the 1960s)
  • @SophieBridger Really thrilled to be the @scotlibdems candidate for #inverclyde by-election http://bbc.in/m0vYmJ

    • 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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