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The LDV Friday Five: 30 September 2011

By | Fri 30th September 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. £6k versus £9k tuition fees: the real impact in pictures (26 comments) by Stephen Tall
  2. Ed Miliband on tuition fees: £6k not £9k. The reaction so far… (34 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. Memo to LabourList’s Paul Richards… Feel free to keep obsessing. It’ll lose you the next election. (20 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. Opinion: What Nick should say about tuition fees at the 2015 general election (48 comments) by George Potter
  5. Only 3% swing to Tories in key Con/Lib Dem marginals (7 comments) by Mark Pack

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Conference – the fantasy and the reality
  2. Wish List for Coalition Part 2
  3. Weekly bins and 80mph
  4. Tuition fees facts leaflet
  5. Conference open to the general public

5 from the LDV archive

(30th September, 2006-10)

  1. WebCameron.. well it’s… different (15 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2006
  2. Gordon’s snap poll could cause postal vote chaos (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007
  3. Vince Cable on the Liberal Democrat Fairer Future Economic Recovery Plan (30 comments) by Vince Cable MP, from from 2008
  4. Opinion: We’ve got the polices, now we need the sound-bite narrative (14 comments) by David Pollard, from 2009
  5. Electoral Commission: AV referendum question should be simplified (16 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. justin hinchcliffe
  2. andrew reeves lib dem
  3. tim farron speech
  4. simon mcgrath
  5. david cameron

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @theChristophe #ldconf =gay marriage, pupil premium increase #lab11 =u-turn on tuition fees #cpc11 =80mph, sacking soldiers, weekly bin collection
  • @SophieBridger Trying to explain devolution in 25 words
  • @timleunig Standard class on my Liverpool to London train pretty full. 1st class almost empty. Is the ratio of seats right economically or socially?
  • @timfarron I’ve just completed my 50,000th piece of casework since being elected. Great news!
  • @LibDemCharlotte I am bishops castles new shropshire councillor

    • 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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