Helen Duffett

The LDV Friday Five: 19 March 2010

By | Fri 19th March 2010 - 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. Will £66,000 expenses claim sink Dawn Butler? (4) by Mark Pack.
2. New Lib Dem song – Hit, Miss or Maybe? (20) by Helen Duffett.
3. Colin Firth on why he’s stopped voting Labour and now supports the Lib Dems (5) by Stephen Tall.
4. The 39 Labour MPs who are 100% authoritarian (0) by Stephen Tall.
5. Election purdah period: what can and can’t be done? (0) by Mark Pack.

5 active LDV Members’ Forum threads

The campaign song
Postal votes
EARS extremely slow recently?
Crisis!
Twitter as a campaigning tool

5 newest groups on ACT

1. Debate Nights
2. Scottish Conference
3. Election Fraud
4. Fairer Distribution of Money
5. BET LIB DEM TO WIN GENERAL ELECTION

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
1. purdah period (-)
2. anna arrowsmith (-)
3. digital economy bill (-)
4. luciana berger (-)
5. colin firth (-)

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

>> @BridgetFox Here comes the rain again – telephone canvassing beckons
>> @Norfolkblogger Tories turned up mob handed 2 the count ! They were telling people in the afternoon that it was “in the bag”. Never treat voters like mugs !
>> @meralhece When are we gonna see political balance on This Week – We’re weeks away from General Election
>> @lgbtld Lib Dems at Stonewall / Village Drinks Hustings in London http://bit.ly/b71qC3 #lgbt #libdems
>> @chriswiggin YAY! One big thing done. But 2 more bigger things added to my to do list. MUST BE AN ELECTION COMING!

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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