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
- Bradford West by-election: 5 initial thoughts on an astonishing result (53 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Julian Huppert MP writes… Safeguards to control state surveillance (24 comments) by Julian Huppert MP
- “Reports about plans to snoop on your emails are complete nonsense” – Lynne Featherstone writes to Lib Dem members (39 comments) by Paul Walter
- David Walter (27 comments) by Mary Reid
- The wheels are coming off the online monitoring bandwagon (18 comments) by Mark Pack
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- Will the Lib Dems support this [interception of comms]?
- Bradford West!!
- What will happen in the May 2012 elections?
- Membership telephone surveys
- Probably too cunning this….
5 from the LDV archive
(April 6th , 2007-11)
- WTF? Lib Dem MP Stephen Gilbert stands up for use of youth argot (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2011
- What happens in wash up – and what will happen to the Digital Economy Bill? (7 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2010
- Do you belong to a suspicious group? It’s hard not to… (14 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
- Twitter is working for Paddick (0 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
- Who are the most straight talking politicians? (0 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- david walter
- bradford west by election
- purdah
- “nick clegg” israel
- farron asa
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
I’m half watching the football and half writing a Lib Dem Focus.
— Neil Monnery (@neilmonnery) April 6, 2012
RT @DPMoffice: VIDEO: Nick Clegg wishes Jewish families across the UK Chag Sameach bit.ly/I5D1b6 #passover
— Alan Muhammed (@alansm) April 6, 2012
So Labour are going against Gay Marriage and Lords Reform!!??Even though they said they’d support both!!!
— Greg Judge (@gregjudge) April 6, 2012
Tories plan to abolish housing benefit for under 25s. They can live with family/friends apparently. What if they haven’t got that option?
— Mark Thompson (@MarkReckons) April 6, 2012
New Tax Year tomorrow. Personal allowance will have gone up by more in 3 years due to @Lib Dems in coalition, than 13 years under @Labour
— John Leech(@johnleechmcr) April 5, 2012
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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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