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
- Federal Committees approve Conference accreditation (96 comments) by Andrew Wiseman, Duncan Greenland and Tim Farron
- Draft Energy Bill: keeping the lights on for now, and for decades to come (34 comments) by Ed Davey MP
- In other news… Paddy in Lords bust-up; Manchester elects Lib Dem lord mayor; Defections round-up (9 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Professor John Curtice: ‘Labour cannot afford simply to ignore the Liberal Democrats’ (42 comments) by The Voice
- Five of the most common mistakes that Lib Dem campaigners make (5 comments) by Mark Pack
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- 2014 Euro Elections
- ‘Vince Cable is a Socialist’!
- Which canvass question should I use this summer?
- Europe Voters
- Reports of uk manufacturing being dead have been exaggerated
5 from the LDV archive
(May 25th, 2007-11)
- “Chris Huhne has achieved more in a year than most top politicians manage in a lifetime” (12 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2011
- The 23 Lib Dem policies included in this year’s Queen’s Speech (15 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
- Blogging the revolution: Let a group of ordinary voters fix the expenses mess (4 comments) by Antony Hook, from 2009
- Something for the Weekend: Town Called Malice (12 comments) by Will Howells, from 2008
- Liberal Democrats win Dudden Hill by-election (12 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- neil hughes 56 up
- neil hughes 7 up
- neil hughes liberal democrat
- team london gla
- james douglas baker lib dem
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
Nick Clegg: We must create a society where what matters most is the person you become, not the person you were born #socialmobility
— Deputy PM (@DPMoffice) May 22, 2012
If Nick Clegg should be ignored because of his background, why does any Labour member listen to Harriet Harman, Polly Toynbee or Ed Balls?
— Sara Bedford (@sarabedford) May 22, 2012
I’ve been re-elected as Secretary of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Libel Reform. Hopefully, this year we will achieve #libelreform #fb
— Julian Huppert (@julianhuppert) May 23, 2012
Today, the recession deepened & the PMs position worsened in a judicial inquiry. My twitter feed is all Eurovision
— Richard Morris (@richardmorrisuk) May 24, 2012
To save money, the six members of #Russia‘s band travelled to #eurovision one inside the other.
— Ben Mathis (@binny_uk) May 22, 2012
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…


