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
- The 5 myths about the UK economy which it suits everyone to perpetuate (55 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Peter Kellner’s advice to the Lib Dems: ditch boundary changes, and get a new leader before 2015 (30 comments) by Stephen Tall
- LibLink: David Laws – The Orange Book eight years on (61 comments) by Nick Thornsby
- Mandatory work: if we believe in evidence-based policy it’s probably best to pay attention to the evidence (16 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Opinion: Nick Clegg – the Great Communicator (36 comments) by Chris White
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- Snoopers Charter
- Tips for Campaigning at Pride
- Education ‘reforms’ are fatally flawed
- Raise Personal Allowance to the level of Min Wage
- South Atlantic Islands Federation (SAIF)
5 from the LDV archive
(June 22nd, 2007-11)
- The Liberal Democrat influence on government… in David Cameron’s own words (10 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2011
- Tackling tax avoidance (10 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2010
- Congratulations Speaker Bercow (8 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
- Something for the Weekend: Here is the news (6 comments) by Will Howells, from 2008
- Controversy over Labour’s Ealing phone canvassing (11 comments) by The Voice, from 2007
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- “evan harris” atheist
- lord oakeshott
- personal independence payment
- eurozone crisis explained
- emily thornberry
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
Your life, your rules #LiberalismIn4Words
— Andrew Tennant (@10anta) June 13, 2012
Sending a woman into space does not make up for China not giving women control over how many children they have. Not by a long chalk.
— Caron Lindsay (@caronmlindsay) June 16, 2012
What politico can’t relate to this? twitter.com/GarethAugustus…
— Gareth Lewis Shelton (@GarethAugustus) June 17, 2012
Watch:Deputy Prime Minister @Nick_Clegg is @Out4Marriage because ‘love is the same, straight or gay’ bit.ly/LAOyWS Share & RT
— Out4Marriage (@Out4Marriage) June 20, 2012
Very proud to welcome the torch into Westmorland at Grasmere, fantastic performances from Grasmere schoolchildren – now off to Ambleside
— Tim Farron (@timfarron) June 21, 2012
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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…


