Helen Duffett

The LDV Friday Five: 25 January 2013

By | Fri 25th January 2013 - 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: it’s no good counting on those rose-tinted spectacles (138 comments) by Richard Morris
  2. Sheffield Labour councillor opposes own decision (12 comments) by Joe Otten
  3. Northern council cuts are Labour’s choice – it’s that straightforward! (28 comments) by David Hennigan

  4. 5 initial thoughts on David Cameron’s Europe speech (36 comments) by Stephen Tall
  5. Where is the British Borgen? (17 comments) by Nick Thornsby

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Increase the charges on the highest VED road tax bands.
  2. Horsemeat
  3. Monarchy
  4. What is policy
  5. An assessment of barriers to innovation within UK & Euro

5 from the LDV archive

(25 January, 2007-12)

  1. Norman Lamb on the NHS (5 comments) by Norman Lamb MP, from 2008
  2. Lords’ cash for questions probe – which party failed the test? (7 comments) by Alix Mortimer, from 2009
  3. Vince: Lib Dems are the only party of genuine economic reform (8 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
  4. Today’s the anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration (53 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2011
  5. Lynne Featherstone MP writes… We do not just elect individuals, we elect people to be members of a team (5 comments) by Lynne Featherstone MP, from 2012

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. borgen
  2. national minimum wage 2013
  3. damien shannon
  4. albert einstein
  5. yes prime minister

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

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

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