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
- Opinion: Land Value Tax – an old idea with lots of modern supporters (248 comments) by Joe Bourke
- Mystery of fake leaflets in North Richmond (19 comments) by Mary Reid
- Which of the five Lib Dem reshuffle options will Nick Clegg pick? (41 comments) by Mark Pack
- In praise of Councillor Neil Hughes – 56 Up (8 comments) by Paul Walter
- Opinion: A letter to a constituent regarding equal marriage (27 comments) by Tom Papworth
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- Should the coalition be dissolved 6 months before election?
- The Lib Dem Godwins law
- Focus newsletters – Labour/Conservative equivalents?
- Time to change tack on Lords Reform
- Twitter use in council meetings
5 from the LDV archive
(May 18th , 2007-11)
- Julian Huppert MP writes on Trident: We don’t need to keep fighting the Cold War (19 comments) by Julian Huppert, from 2011
- Fake “Miliband for Leader” website slams Gordon Brown (16 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
- Three “saintly” Liberal Democrat MPs #MPexpenses (8 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
- US electoral fact of the day (4 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2008
- Welsh Lib Dems suspend coalition talks with Labour, investigate rainbow coalition of other parties instead (0 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- team london gla
- neil hughes 56 up
- john bridges liberal democrats
- paddy ashdown progressive alliance
- shutt newby
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
I love London – on the tube a young white guy with a St George’s flag draped round his shoulders just gave up his seat for a black woman.
— Jo Shaw (@_JoShaw) May 18, 2012
Do we have to remind #bbcqt again that not *all* political parties courted Murdoch…Lib Dems certainly refused to play their game!
— Katy Riddle (@Katy_Riddle) May 17, 2012
Some cast members from the thick of it on great George street right now
— Ibrahim Taguri (@ibrahimtaguri) May 18, 2012
Grey men departing the pub en masse and crossing the road to parliament. Vote in the Commons methinks.
— Rachael Clarke (@MrsCarrothead) May 17, 2012
The wrong sort of wind ff.im/-WIW8n
— Peter Black (@peterblackwales) May 16, 2012
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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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