Helen Duffett

The LDV Friday Five: 23 July 2010

By | Fri 23rd July 2010 - 9:20 am

It’s Friday, so here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the past week on LDV:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

1. Have you seen Zac Goldsmith’s Channel 4 News car-crash interview yet? (73) by Stephen Tall
2. John Pugh MP asks for Lib Dem members’ feedback on health issues (159) by John Pugh
3. How the Westminster Village media is still struggling with concept of coalition (45) by Stephen Tall
4. Opinion: Genuine progressives should suggest cuts (121) by George Kendall
5. Official: 4,500 new Lib Dem members have joined party since election and coalition agreement (79) by Stephen Tall

5 active LDV Members’ Forum threads

Academy schools
Trident
Zac Goldsmith
Do We Talk About ‘Industrial Democracy’ Any More?
Great Policies of the Coalition

5 from the LDV archive

1. LibLink … Chris Huhne: Britain must stop locking up innocent children by Newshound, December 2009
2. Adrian Sanders MP calls for new focus on Community Politics by Adrian Sanders, January 2007
3. The power of blogs, or the weakness of journalism? by Stephen Tall, October 2007
4. OPINION: An Elephant’s Voice by Millennium Elephant, August 2007
5. Opinion: The Air We Breathe by Merlene Emerson, March 2009

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
1. making vat fair (-)
2. george mackie mp (-)
3. labservative (-)
4. lib dem facebook (-)
5. george kendall liberal (-)

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

>> @adrianfortorbay Massive swing to Lib Dems in Torbay UA by-election. Seat gained from Cons, Labour poor third.
>> @caronmlindsay Ed Miliband talking rubbish about Lib Dem by election results. We are holding our own.
>> @waddertron Front page of the day http://twitpic.com/26zgs9 – and I for one want answers.
>> @timprater Nick Clegg announces end of child detention for immigration purposes. http://tinyurl.com/2cwlutk That cut, I like.
>> @Lucy_Watt Clegg’s 2009 Federal Conference “I want to be PM” speech makes a really interesting read now: http://tinyurl.com/2etuokr

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