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The LDV Friday Five: 28 January 2011

By | Fri 28th January 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. ID cards to be scrapped at midnight tonight (8 comments) by Helen Duffett
  2. Economy shrinks by 0.5% (67 comments) by Iain Roberts
  3. Labour’s plan to scrap the EMA (71 comments) by Iain Roberts
  4. Lib Dems GAIN Marl, Conwy (and other by-election results from Jan 20) (29 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. Anti-terrorism review: 6 questions to judge the government by (38 comments) by Mark Pack

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Of mergers, pacts, alliances and secret deals
  2. Equalising constituency sizes
  3. Tax evasion/avoidance
  4. Which Hat do you wear normally?
  5. Anyone for the EU?

5 from the LDV archive

(28th January, 2006-2010)

  1. New Lib Dem members’ site goes live (7 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  2. Three “disgusting, eco-fascist, bullying” questions for Conservatives (3 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2010
  3. If Gordon’s a “glum optimist” and Dave’s a “perky doom-monger”, can Nick be the “honest optimist”? (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  4. Who has more power? A council chief exec, council leader or a local MP? (8 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  5. Thorpe’s advice to Clegg: don’t go into coalition (9 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. becky harvey
  2. katie ghose
  3. breaking the cycle green paper
  4. bridget fox gla
  5. sal esposito

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @alexfoster I’m gonna be on Come Dine With Me next week – I cook Tuesday. http://bit.ly/hfUzp1 #cdwm
  • @mpntod Blimey. A Focus article about the 1938 Liberal Pamphlet “Ownership for all” http://bit.ly/hPbDwy
  • @OllyGrender I’ve worked this out. Gerrymandering is ok. As long as it remains massively biased in Labour’s favour (refer last 4 elections) right?
  • @lgbtld Congrats to #libdems campaign officer @andyreeves and soon-to-be-husband Roger on their wedding day
  • @renarde Those of you w/ small children: do you assume they’ll be straight? Or correct ppl who do (eg refer to them having boyf/girlf in future)?

    • 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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