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The LDV Friday Five: 21 January 2011

By | Fri 21st January 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. Oldham East and Saddleworth results thread (79 comments) by The Voice
  2. After Oldham: what does the result mean for the party’s targeting strategy? (82 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. Tim Farron writes… Oldham proves rumours of the Lib Dems’ death have been greatly exaggerated (71 comments) by Tim Farron MP
  4. The Independent View: Confusing, exciting and terrifying times for those on the liberal left (97 comments) by Neal Lawson
  5. “By-election was a hard-fought contest” – Clegg (61 comments) by Helen Duffett

5 from the LDV archive

(21st January, 2006-10)

  1. When should the state intervene? RBS, Kraft & Cadbury and the Eternal Liberal Dilemma (11 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  2. Mass gathering in defence of street photography #phnat (2 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
  3. MPs expenses – yes we can! (4 comments) by Alix Mortimer, from 2009
  4. Coalitions and minority government across Britain (0 comments) by Centre Forum, from 2008
  5. Confessions of a ‘Newbie’ (4 comments) by Mark Thompson, from 2009

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Party strategy paper and more at Spring Conference
  2. Lesson to be learnt from Oldham East and Saddleworth
  3. Hidden speed cameras
  4. A letter? To me? From Nick Clegg?
  5. Putting Lib Dems at the forefront of drug policy debate

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. nick clegg
  2. oldham east and saddleworth result
  3. breaking the cycle green paper
  4. olly grender
  5. alarm clock britain

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @LibDemJo RT @GdnPolitics Liberal Democrats to fight next election as totally independent party http://gu.com/p/2mh2j/tw >> And the Pope is Catholic
  • @DuncanStott RT @BBCPolitics: Peers set for epic battle over AV http://bbc.in/hFlDG6 << Epic battle?! Is Ridley Scott directing? FFS
  • @joswinson just raised daft antiquated HoC procedures – written Parly answers are delivered to Hansard on paper & all get retyped
  • @caronmlindsay Is it me, or does Blair just look uber smug while giving evidence at the Iraq Enquiry?
  • @willhowells I can only assume Nick Clegg asked Andy Coulson to go today so that the press wouldn’t notice it’s my last day working for the Lib Dems.

    • 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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