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
- Lib Dem members split 47%-46% on whether Nick Clegg should fight 2015 election as party leader (54 comments) by Stephen Tall
- John Prescott should ignore this post. It asks you to think. (25 comments) by Stephen Tall
- What do we Lib Dems want from a reshuffle? (35 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Have I gone mad? (50 comments) by Mark Pack
- Opinion: It’s time for Assange to stop using WikiLeaks as a smokescreen (88 comments) by Nick Sutton
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- West Coast Mainline
- Assange
- leaflets – do they work?
- Loan of red drum for Riso MZ770E
- When do we start selecting PPCs?
5 from the LDV archive
(August 24th, 2007-11)
- Opinion: Rebalancing taxes – eliminating the carbon externality (20 comments) by Simon Oliver, from 2011
- Lib Dem Conference returns to Brighton for 2012 (13 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
- NEW POLL: What should we pay our MPs? (27 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
- Clegg defects (14 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
- Pressure grows to withdraw US troops from Iraq (0 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- avon and somerset police commissioner candidates
- commons votes prisoners
- intergenerational fairness lib dems
- thomas paine/roffey
- your boys took a hell of a beating
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
Dear George: when in hole, stop digging RT
@bbcpolitics: Galloway ‘clarifies’ rape views bbc.in/OuJT7w— Jennie Rigg (@miss_s_b) August 21, 2012
ALDC – By-Election Result – LD gain from Labour – Westhoughton TC, Hosker and Hart Common aldc.org/elections/by-e…
— ALDC (@ALDC) August 24, 2012
#doctoronabike is visiting schools as well as surgeries today. Bristol young people doing better and better. Well done!#BristolMayor— Jon Rogers (@DrJon4Bristol) August 23, 2012
Call on Osborne to introduce a full mansion tax! Govt. consultation closes 23rd aug. Use lib dem template email tinyurl.com/bpvvqol
— Stephen Williams MP (@swilliamsmp) August 21, 2012
英国旅游局迎来英国大臣有关促进中国赴英旅游的演讲,讲演中宣布将在中国开展一项800万英镑的市场推广计划,以期实现中国赴英游客人数在2015年增至三倍。ukinchina.fco.gov.uk/zh
— ChineseLibDems (@ChineseLibDems) August 16, 2012
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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…


