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The LDV Friday Five: 29 July 2011

By | Fri 29th July 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. 80 dead in Norway shootings (1 comment) by Alex Foster
  2. Opinion: Verdict from the first Mayoral Hustings – it’s a two horse race (40 comments) by Simon McGrath
  3. How do we build the Lib Dems’ core vote? (63 comments) by Iain Roberts
  4. News International’s William Lewis, BBC’s Robert Peston, and the alleged act of theft which aimed to bring down Vince Cable (13 comments) by Stephen Tall
  5. Opinion: Why David Cameron will not be Prime Minister in a year’s time (21 comments) by Paul Walter

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Genuine email just received inviting me to events
  2. Answering your questions about the move to VAN
  3. Simon Titley’s Liberator piece
  4. Views on the coalition
  5. Next Tory Leader

5 from the LDV archive

(29th July, 2007-10)

  1. Crime prevention? Just choose pink (2 comments) by Iain Roberts, from 2010
  2. Time for a heated, televised debate? (8 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Nick Clegg’s summer message (48 comments) by The Voice, from 2008
  4. LDV readers say: Margaret Thatcher was a Bad Thing for Britain (14 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
  5. Opinion: A Decade On (2 comments) by Duncan Borrowman, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. norway shootings
  2. david laws
  3. “vince cable” “deficit reduction”
  4. simon mcgrath
  5. team london gla

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @DonFosterMP Sara Payne phone hacking marks an unimaginable new low… t.co/43N1nMZ
  • @cllrmjenkins It’s mean to laugh but… #freudiansubeditingfail t.co/8afCsnu
  • @DanielFurrUK E-petitions: I shall now petition Parliament on the legalisation of drugs http://wp.me/p1jJsz-fD
  • @alexwilcock In other news, I’m pleased to confirm that all 4 #LibDems London candidates have replied to me. So search for ‘Tub of Lard’ pics was wasted.
  • @oakeshottm Cry out loud! Worst economists’ joke ever in Times-so bad it’s funny- Greeks ban Taramasalata and Tzatziki to avoid double dip recession…

    • 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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