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The LDV Friday Five: 21 October 2011

By | Fri 21st October 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. New constituency boundaries in Scotland: the impact on the Lib Dems (14 comments) by Stephen Tall
  2. Jasper Gerard writes… The Clegg Coup – and the serialisation horror (26 comments) by Jasper Gerard
  3. Julian Huppert MP writes: High Speed Rail no longer the transport of the future, but a logistical imperative (29 comments) by Julian Huppert MP
  4. Opinion: Why the Lib Dems need all-women shortlists (48 comments) by Nat Jester
  5. The Independent View: Lib Dem peers kill local referendums (27 comments) by Peter Facey

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. EU referendum
  2. Council House Sales
  3. Labour – on your side
  4. Just look how ‘democratic’ the Tory conference has become
  5. Economic Liberals

5 from the LDV archive

(21st October, 2006-10)

  1. The Independent View: Keep your good name safe – lock the fraudsters out (7 comments) by Phil Booth, from 2008
  2. Would President Obama call Paddy Ashdown to serve? (4 comments) by Richard Huzzey, from 2008
  3. NEW POLL: How should the Lib Dems increase their number of female MPs? (59 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  4. Danny Alexander on the Spending Review: “We have done the right thing” (91 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
  5. Are the unions a bigger threat to the Lib Dems than Ashcroft was? (99 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. julian glover
  2. should burkas be banned
  3. libdems 80 mph
  4. imitation poll cards
  5. chris rennard

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @adriansandersmp Spoke at N.Devon Lib Dem annual dinner and given a brace of unplucked Pheasant as a thank you. Lovely people.
  • @aligoldsworthy It seems the inevitable has happened. @welshmarkcole and I have finally grown up. Our bar bill was less than the accommodation at #wldconf
  • @normanlamb Just had an email from the NFU calling me Mr lambing!!
  • @CrockartMP Just seen bloke in britches and wig taking a written message tied with a ribbon to the Lords. Did he miss the vote last week? Now we tweet!
  • @zoeimogen Loving the euphamisms today. “Sources say”, “Rumor has it”, “I am hearing” etc. all seem to mean “I read it on twitter that…”

    • 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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