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The LDV Friday Five: 27 May 2011

By | Fri 27th May 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: However unfair it is, Chris Huhne should step down (100 comments) by Simon McGrath
  2. Chris Huhne’s election expenses: once again, nothing to see here, move along (54 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. Dealing with the political weather: three lessons to learn (15 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. Revealed: The Liberal Democrats’ new HQ (26 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. Tim Farron writes: Enough doom and gloom, we have the greatest opportunity in the history of our party (42 comments) by Tim Farron

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Terrible squandering of a campaign resource
  2. Lib Dem Regional Seats to be “declared vacant”
  3. Do Liberal Democrats believe in the Schengen Zone?
  4. PR
  5. Alternatives to councillors’ surgeries

5 from the LDV archive

(27th May, 2006-09)

  1. Clegg unveils 100-day plan to abolish Lords and reform voting (20 comments) by The Voice, from 2009
  2. Lib Dems tackle UKIP head on (3 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2009
  3. Why Liberal Democrats should change their tune on elected mayors (25 comments) by Dorothy Thornhill, from 2008
  4. Opinion: Margaret Hodge should go (9 comments) by Steve Cooke, from 2007
  5. Opinion: It’s only a boat (3 comments) by Laurence Boyce, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. ld mps
  2. tom smithard
  3. john sharkey
  4. katie ghose
  5. huhne

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @charlotteahenry An article on new young women MPs in Times Mag.No Lib Dems in the article. Sadly nothing to do with media bias.
  • @joswinson Know someone really special? Why not nominate them to carry the Olympic flame? 80,000 Torchbearers needed! http://bit.ly/kDgg8b
  • @JohnLDixon Awesome – the US Centre for Disease Control has a sense of humour and isn’t afraid to use it http://bit.ly/k9DJ79
  • @GregMulholland1 The invitation to today’s [Obama] speech says no bags allowed apart from ladies’ handbags. So manbags not allowed then? Is that sexist?!
  • @waddertron Panoramic view from the roof of Cowley St. http://t.co/quTomzx

    • 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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