Helen Duffett

The LDV Friday Five: 22 March 2013

By | Fri 22nd March 2013 - 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. I’m a liberal and I’m against this sort of thing. Leveson-style press regulation, that is (as well as secret courts) (67 comments) by Stephen Tall
  2. Opinion: The ‘Bedroom Tax’ does not pass the Fairer Society test (47 comments) by John Coburn
  3. Opinion: Time for Liberal Democrats to consider new claims about climate change (72 comments) by Michael Taylor

  4. Opinion: Taking minimum wage work out of tax would deliver the Living Wage (15 comments) by Adam Corlett
  5. Opinion: It’s time to burst the football fans’ ‘bubble’ (36 comments) by Paul Head

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. The real winner of yesterday’s budget is Nick Clegg-
  2. “Bedroom Tax”
  3. Thank you cards for donations
  4. Canvas analysis on canvas cards
  5. piccadily circus

5 from the LDV archive

(22 March, 2007-12)

  1. Lynne the twitterer (21 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
  2. A turnout statistic (21 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2009
  3. David Howarth on Parliamentary Reform (5 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
  4. It’s sooooo old fashioned to wait to hear a speech before you decide you disagree with it (18 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2011
  5. Budget 2012: A strategic and substantive victory for the Lib Dems (7 comments) by Nick Thornsby, from 2012

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. bedroom tax
  2. minimum wage 2013
  3. eastleigh lib dem shortlist
  4. local elections 2013
  5. rock salmon

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…

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One Comment

  • Paul in Twickenham 23rd Mar '13 - 10:33am

    There appears to have been a significant increase in Cleggoscepticism since the Spring Conference.

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