The LDV Friday Five: 3 May 2013

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. Nick Clegg MP writes… The Labour and Tory exodus (79 comments) by Nick Clegg MP
  2. While David Cameron and Owen Jones unite in favour of universal benefits, I want us to get explicit about why redistribution matters to society (27 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. What will happen to the Lib Dems in Thursday’s local elections? (25 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. Former Lib Dem by-election candidate Elizabeth Shenton defects to Labour (26 comments) by The Voice
  5. Ukip set to win 22% this Thursday according to ComRes poll (18 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Local elections – what the NOC doesn’t show
  2. Crime is falling so vote Lib Dem?
  3. Pothole Politics from Labour – should we be afraid?
  4. Social care
  5. The downside of biofuels

5 from the LDV archive

(th , 2007-11)

  1. Election results: London and looking to the general election (21 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2008
  2. “People fix society, if you let them” (3 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
  3. Today’s Lib Dem Flashmobs – a planned, spontaneous, orderly uprising. All very liberal. (7 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  4. What Lib Dem members think about immigration (Part II) (11 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2011
  5. Nick Clegg says big question marks hang over Rupert Murdoch (14 comments) by The Voice, from 2012

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. county council elections predictions
  2. ukip
  3. when was the golden age
  4. queen
  5. robin lynn

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

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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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