Helen Duffett

The LDV Friday Five: 24 December 2010

By | Fri 24th December 2010 - 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. Probably the most inappropriate Christmas card ever sent … (2 comments) by Stephen Tall – from November 2009!
  2. Vince Cable: I could bring down the government (163 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. Vince Cable: stays in Cabinet, responsibility for takeover ruling moves (109 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. Opinion: It is time to get out of the Coalition (147 comments) by Paul Elgood
  5. Prime Minister removes all Christmas imagery from official Christmas cards (10 comments) by Mark Pack

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

The scrapping of ID Cards
I’ve had enough of this ‘newspaper’
What’s the cost of a jack-knifed lorry?
2011 registrations and security information
Oldham by-election

5 from the LDV archive

(24th December, 2006-09)

  1. LDVideo … Christmas Eve supplement (0 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  2. Mandelson forcing universities to offer less choice and lower standards, says Stephen Williams (6 comments) by The Voice, from 2009
  3. Strictly Guevara (2 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
  4. Which Lib Dem MP would you want to be the next Dr Who? (18 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
  5. Opinion: What should the new leader do in his first 100 days? #6 (8 comments) by Simon Titley, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. lib dem pps
  2. ed miliband
  3. rbs
  4. richard huzzey
  5. richard grayson

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

>> @jamesgraham Wow, I have a Clegg Christmas card, signed by the man himself. God, I’m establishment now.

>> @timfarron congratulations to the Telegraph who’ve uncovered the shocking truth that Lib Dem ministers have… err…got minds of their own. good work!

>> @DavidAngell Why would anyone pay 1p to join Labour after we paid £5.3 billion (£86 per citizen) for an ID Card scheme you needlessly introduced?

>> @phil_reilly Turns out I’m the Lib Dem highest up the BBC 6 o’clock bulletin today. They secretly filmed me waiting at Euston for travel chaos story.

>> @Lucy_Watt About time with Don’t Ask Don’t tell – I hope it leads the way for @barackobama to deliver on full equality soon.

If you are a Lib Dem who tweets, and would like to be added to Ryan’s Lib Dem Tweets aggregator, drop him an email at [email protected]

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

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