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The LDV Friday Five: 7 January 2011

By | Fri 7th 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. NEW POLL: Who is your Liberal Voice of the Year? (34 comments) by Stephen Tall
  2. Why Cameron’s a credible candidate for 2010’s Liberal Voice award (62 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. The VAT rise: a refresher course for Labour (89 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. Why I support the Coalition: in praise of compromise (54 comments) by Iain Roberts
  5. The Independent. It isn’t. (41 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Times endorses Lib Dems in OES
  2. Tips wanted for phone canvassing
  3. What next after PagePlus 11?
  4. Net Neutrality
  5. PPCs for the next General Election

5 from the LDV archive

(7th January, 2006-2010)

  1. Britain’s best MP competition: the results (10 comments) by Keith Halstead, from 2010
  2. Happy 42nd birthday, Nick! (2 comments) by The Voice, from 2009
  3. Opinion: Why I am so passionately pro-European (13 comments) by Professor Patricia Leighton, from 2009
  4. Jeremy Clarkson changes gear on privacy (10 comments) by Richard Huzzey, from 2008
  5. Hemming threatens to name social workers in Parliament (120 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. nick clegg writes to aaron porter
  2. what time will the debate on the oldham writ be tomorrow
  3. charlotte henry
  4. richard grayson
  5. richard huzzey

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @libdems Happy Birthday @nick_clegg
  • @phil_reilly Journos writing from London that Labour will run away with OES by-election should get up here. They’ll be surprised with what they find.
  • @lisa_smart Very much looking forward to tomorrow’s ldn #libdems trip to #oes. Bus now fully booked – hooray!
  • @stephenpglenn #yes2AV #no2AV AV votes are no more “counted twice” than u get 2 meals at a cafe cos u ordered 2nd choice after your 1st order was all out.
  • @millenniumdome When @UKLabour say “Conservative-led government” I hear “We’re scared of Lib Dems”

    • 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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