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The LDV Friday Five: 4 November 2011

By | Fri 4th November 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. 10 Lib Dems call for emergency recovery programme (53 comments) by the Voice
  2. Opinion: Pity the Scottish school-leavers when English fees rise (35 comments) by Ewan Hoyle
  3. Liberal Democrats decide to pass up on fighting Police Commissioner elections (mostly) (32 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. Opinion: The Tories are downgrading democracy (and the Lib Dems are letting them do it!) (26 comments) by David Allen
  5. The Independent View: Labour is a puppet of the unions – Lib Dems must stand up for non-unionised workers (41 comments) by Henry Gruijters

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Danny Alexander
  2. Where are you on the St Paul’s Cathedral protest camp?
  3. What’s Huddle?
  4. Attendance at conference
  5. Special Interest Groups within the Lib Dems

5 from the LDV archive

(4th November, 2006-10)

  1. Federal committee 2006-8 election results (0 comments) by Will Howells, from 2006
  2. Conservative abandons Cameron’s pledge on immigration (39 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007
  3. So, just what are they voting on today? (2 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
  4. Cameron’s Euro line addresses all the wrong problems (11 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2009
  5. Nick Clegg’s speech on European growth (6 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. should burkas be banned
  2. andy mayer
  3. imitation poll cards
  4. james mcgrory liberal democrats
  5. chris rennard

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @christook My wife has just got a part time job at just over minimum wage. Thanks to the #libdems she will not pay a penny in income tax. Not a penny
  • @jakehiggin1992 Last night, fine meal in the company of the deputy PM. This morning, aldi cereal and early start in library.
  • @caronmlindsay Carmichael, Swinson, then Shirley. Can #bbcqt ever be better than last 3 weeks?
  • @joswinson Back in HoC for the greener future @UKYP debate, such a great energy in the chamber – and better behaviour than MPs!
  • @wv_v Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe, Simon Hughes on time one day…

    • 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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