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The LDV Friday Five: 22 July 2011

By | Fri 22nd July 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. LibLink | Vince Cable: I declared war on Murdoch… now everyone agrees with me (25 comments) by Helen Duffett
  2. Police and Crime Commissioners: Lib Dem candidates start here (17 comments) by Helen Duffett
  3. Opinion: David Laws takes another step on the road to redemption (26 comments) by Mark Valladares
  4. Opinion: Stephenson resignation – the bar just got lowered (22 comments) by Richard Morris
  5. Opinion: Cameron’s ten big mistakes – more please! (21 comments) by Paul Walter

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. What’s your favourite Murdoch smear of the Lib Dems?
  2. The next battle after Murdoch?
  3. Materials for local campaigning – your views wanted!
  4. FOI requests er… request
  5. Elected Police Commissioners

5 from the LDV archive

(22nd July, 2007-10)

  1. An Interview with the Whips Office – comfy chairs will be provided… (0 comments) by Dominic Addington, from 2010
  2. Moving to an elected second chamber – a loss of expertise, or just privilege (9 comments) by Alex Runswick, from 2010
  3. Tall photographer stopped again by police (7 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
  4. CommentIsLinked@LDV… Nick Clegg: MPs’ holiday betrayal (0 comments) by The Voice, from 2009
  5. Join us on Facebook! (1 comment) by Alex Foster, from 2008

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. rebekah brookes [sic]
  2. andrew reeves
  3. team london gla
  4. political bias in the sun newspaper
  5. david laws

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @rhaegal Confused by LDs out for DCam’s head. I’m not a fan, but which Tory would we sooner have in his place, exactly?
  • @julianhuppert Speaker’s statement about pie/foam incident yesterday. Will be independent investigation.
  • @FlickRea No feeding frenzy on College Green today – all MPs on holiday ! Leaving Downing street cat in charge?
  • @guy_interruptd Spectacularly late this morning. Luckily I saw my boss on the tube who was late too. #Win
  • @verityharding Fantastic that US to finally end ‘don’t ask don’t tell’. Absolutely shocking it ever existed in the first place. tinyurl.com/42bk596

    • 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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