The LDV Friday Five: 25 March 2011

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The LDV Friday Five: 25 March 2011

By The Voice | Fri 25th March 2011 - 5:00 pm

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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

Parmjit Singh Gill withdraws as Lib Dem candidate for Leicester South (7 comments) by Helen Duffett
Nick Clegg on Libya: “This is not Iraq” (57 comments) by Helen Duffett
Parmjit Singh Gill selected for Lib Dems in Leicester South (12 comments) by Helen Duffett
Dominic Carman writes… Why I want to be the Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate for 2012 (63 comments) by Dominic Carman
Opinion: How 295 losers could have been winners (26 comments) by Mark ~~Reckons~~ Thompson

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

5 from the LDV archive

(25th March, 2007-10)

Electioneering the social networking way (3 comments) by Jennie Rigg, from 2010
Guardian readers switching to Lib Dems in droves (11 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2010
LibLink: Steve Webb – There has been no rightward shift by the Liberal Democrats (4 comments) by NewsHound, from 2010
Nick Clegg launches Liberal Youth (21 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
Unsubstantiated rumour (6 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

purdah
purdah period
poll lib dems left
lembit opik
av referendum postal vote

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

@jpshaddock #BBCBudget calculator says I’ll be £313.93 better off thanks to today’s #Budget. #WIN! Gawd bless the #Coalition! I could kiss you Osborne!
@tajasel New rule probably allows MPs to take iPads into the Commons. How long before we see one of them playing Angry Birds? http://bit.ly/dERCW4
@caronmlindsay How novel. Being governed by grown ups. Let’s celebrate it. http://bit.ly/fzbLSS
@clairethomas1 What a beautiful day it’s been. Wish I could have been out delivering leaflets (well kind of)
@nickjbarlow It’s a lovely sunny spring day…and I’m off to a meeting about Christmas.

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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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