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The LDV Friday Five: 20 July 2012

By | Fri 20th July 2012 - 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. Why the Lib Dems cannot end the Coalition. And what we should do to try and rescue it. (62 comments) by Stephen Tall
  2. How Jeremy Thorpe (and then Nick Clegg) broke the electoral system (38 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. Do the Lib Dems have a core vote, and can we grow it? (33 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. Opinion: Liberal Democrats must not apologise for cuts (38 comments) by David Thorpe
  5. Opinion: The Lib Dems’ moment of Reckoning (20 comments) by Geoffrey Payne

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. FORUM UPGRADE
  2. 50 years ago, the last peacetime UK coalition ended
  3. SLF conference, what did you think?
  4. Gove approves opening of creationist free schools
  5. Manchester Central Parliamentary by-election, November 2012

5 from the LDV archive

(July 20th, 2007-11)

  1. Stephen Williams: Labour spent £38m taxpayer cash on News International advertising (10 comments) by The Voice, from 2011
  2. Simon Hughes: Coalition Government will legislate to allow gay marriage (37 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  3. Vince on reform of banking regulation (11 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  4. Sedgefield result: 11% swing from Labour to Lib Dem (16 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007
  5. Ealing Southall result: 6% swing from Labour to Lib Dem (50 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. stephen tall tuition fees
  2. “evan harris” atheist
  3. lib dem hunt vote iraq
  4. david laws
  5. the hollow crown

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

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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