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The LDV Friday Five: 2 September 2011

By | Fri 2nd September 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. Ken Livingstone: mine won’t be a grassroots funded campaign (23 comments) by Mark Pack
  2. Opinion: Why millionaire graduates should stop whingeing about fees (77 comments) by Jonathan Hunt
  3. Alex Wilcock writes… Tory boy throws toys out of pram: not exactly Man Bites Dog (19 comments) by Alex Wilcock
  4. Liberal Democrats moving HQ : the future’s bright (11 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. Chris White writes: It’s nice to be hated again (19 comments) by Chris White

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Guardian headline on Abortion wrong surely?
  2. >Is Cowley St still Cowley St?
  3. Imprints
  4. Uk IT/Engineering graduate unemployment c.f. Germany
  5. Accreditation

5 from the LDV archive

(2nd September, 2007-10)

  1. Andy Coulson accused of knowing about widespread phone hacking (2 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
  2. Nick says yes to Sky’s televised debate (7 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Nick and Ming speak out on Megrahi (5 comments) by The Voice, from 2009
  4. Smithson’s view: How can the Lib Dems exploit the Tory “Thatcher tendency”? (27 comments) by Mike Smithson, from 2008
  5. Challenge to German’s Welsh leadership likely (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. rebecca tidy
  2. ed long liberal
  3. roger pincham
  4. what have the lib dems done for us website
  5. matthew sowemimo

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @duncanhames Door-knocking in Corsham, presenting the report on my 1st year as the local MP along with the Lib Dem residents survey team.
  • @pjgoodman Our banner of much win. #lgbt #libdems #mcrpride #fb http://twitpic.com/6bz9ox
  • @leechalmers Finding it a bit hard to get back into twitter after 3 weeks meditating up a hill. Funnily enough.
  • @Phil Reilly Choice quotes from today’s Telegraph: “Whatever happens, Clegg will be in the midst of it– polite, influential, underscrutinised & enduring”
  • @jonathanfryer Going to the @LondonLibDems‘ Londonmayoral candidate ballot count

    • 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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