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
- Vince Cable MP writes… My view on George Osborne’s employee ownership scheme (73 comments) by Vince Cable MP
- Opinion: Clegg’s cock-up over Page 3 – he should sign the “No More Page Three” petition now (58 comments) by Daisy Cooper
- Opinion: Britain should join the Euro (157 comments) by Geoff Crocker
- Employee share ownership – open letter to Vince Cable and Nick Clegg (63 comments) by Tracy Connell
- Nick Clegg is The Sun’s Hero of the Week… again (30 comments) by Stephen Tall
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- Communicating with members
- Emotions and Politics
- Saving Local Pubs through Localism – Can it be done?
- Reports of uk manufacturing being dead have been exaggerated
- Marked registers and Connect
5 from the LDV archive
(October 19th, 2006-11)
- Nick Clegg: Great Repeal Act (27 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2006
- Local parties: membership falls but activism increases (0 comments) by Will Howells, from 2006
- Nick Clegg launches campaign, pledging to take Liberal Democrats “beyond our comfort zone” (39 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007
- What Mrs Cameron actually wore (4 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2009
- Opinion: Euro-reformists, not Euro-philes (39 comments) by Zadok Day, from 2011
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- abu hamza
- votes prisoners europe
- nick clegg
- rock salmon
- david cameron
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
Paddy Ashdown suggests affordable childcare as a central campaign for 2015 General Election #LibDems
— Jo Shaw (@_JoShaw) October 17, 2012
Reading federal party election manifestos and resisting the urge to write a ‘how to create a bad election leaflet’ blog post in response..
— Nick Barlow (@nickjbarlow) October 19, 2012
Speculation about a deal on boundary changes is wrong: boundary changes are dead. Shuffled off their mortal coil. They are ex-reforms.
— Lib Dem Press Office (@LibDemPress) October 16, 2012
Congrats to Steve Deeming who’s been elected unopposed as new LD cllr for Sketchley to Burbage Parish Council
— Stuart Bray (@slbray1) October 19, 2012
Being in government can be difficult but sometimes it can be bloody brilliant too! #freegary
— Alistair Carmichael (@acarmichaelmp) October 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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