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. Ed Balls: My starting point is we are going to have keep all the cuts (32 comments) by Mark Pack
2. My ‘Super Thursday’ Lib Dem post mortem (61 comments) by Stephen Tall
3. The other local elections: Lib Dems gain five and hold three (28 comments) by Helen Duffett
4. PCC elections & Corby by-election results open thread… (51 comments) by The Voice
5. Teather: “Benefit cap is immoral and divisive” (74 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. New Ashcroft polling – People think Lab wouldn’t do cuts
2. Rotherham byelection 29th November 2012
3. Writing email newsletters
4. CofE votes NO to women bishops
5. The appalling subjugation of Gaza

5 from the LDV archive

(23 November, 2007-11)

1. Crikey, these special advisors are rather cheap (1 comment) by Mark Pack, from 2007
2. Absent Conservative peers assist Labour in Lords votes (1 comment) by Mark Pack, from 2008
3. Lib Dem HQ: read what Nick said, not what the press reported! (68 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
4. In Government for all the right reasons: the David Laws interview (40 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
5. Opinion: Lib Dems should welcome and put into practice most of the High Pay Commission’s recommendations (9 comments) by Prateek Buch, from 2011

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. pcc election results
2. mansion tax
3. lib dem news
4. nick clegg
5. corby by election result

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

is very pleased to see his friend Lynne Beaumont win a council by-election in Folkestone this evening

— Colin Ross (@colinross1975) November 23, 2012

Dear Tories. In #Hackney today, I had hellim cheese, a salt-beef bagel and some crazy alcoholic Polish chocolate. Multiculturalism kicks ass

— Ben Mathis (@binny_uk) November 19, 2012

Someone just complained about letterboxes on our local party mailing list. Yes, I replied with the obvious lines…

— Zoe O’Connell (@zoeimogen) November 23, 2012

My Lib Dem email cup overfloweth recently, anyone would think there were internal party elections on.

— Nick Bason (@nickbason) November 23, 2012

Hello! @adlibmag is a new monthly magazine for @libdems. Subscribe here: bit.ly/T3uJqmWe’re on Facebook too: on.fb.me/UIhxXx

— AD LIB (@AdLibMag) November 21, 2012

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