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The LDV Friday Five: 24 June 2011

By | Fri 24th June 2011 - 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. Opinion: Taxpayer foots £6.7m NO 2 AV leaflet bill (26 comments) by Stuart Bonar
  2. Thank you EARS, but the VAN is coming (52 comments) by Iain Roberts
  3. “It was a virtuoso performance” – Viscount Astor on Lord Ashdown on Lords reform (14 comments) by Helen Duffett
  4. LibLink | Danny Alexander: Make no mistake: we will reform public sector pensions (52 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. What’s the difference between Ryan Giggs and Ed Miliband? Nick Clegg tells all… (16 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Circus animals defeat the Tories
  2. SLF conference. Did you go? What did you think?
  3. Assisted dying
  4. Answering your questions about the move to VAN
  5. Giving people shares in the nationalised banks

5 from the LDV archive

(24th June, 2007-10)

  1. At last…a Welsh Prime Minister (13 comments) by Iain Roberts, from 2010
  2. How solid is the Tories’ ‘extreme and ragbag’ Euro grouping? (8 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Sir Cyril Smith on his 80th! (1 comment) by David Hennigan, from 2008
  4. Opinion: It’s deja vu all over again (0 comments) by Chris Keating, from 2007
  5. Harman beats Johnson to Labour Deputy spot (23 comments) by Richard Huzzey, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. ryan giggs
  2. andrew reeves
  3. sophie bridger
  4. bombardier
  5. libdemhome

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @aligoldsworthy Whenever I’m at party events nowadays it’s interesting watching ppl positioning for internal elections for lists for reformed House of Lords
  • @CllrDaisyBenson Nick clegg is spending the whole day at lib dem local government conference. Powerful message. Hope it is not just symbolic
  • @meralhece Impressive Tracey Emin Exhibition at Hayward earlier. Lovely to be taken round the exhibits by Tracey, who I’m proud to say is my cousin.
  • @DuncanStott Are they showing #bbcqt on the screens at #glastonbury‘s pyramid stage? IF NOT WHY NOT?
  • @ashakaur Want to decide Govt policy? Join the #LibDems. The only party whose policy is directly decided by their members http://t.co/KjHfqqK

    • 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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