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The LDV Friday Five: 8 April 2011

By | Fri 8th April 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. Major changes at Lib Dem Voice (30 comments) by “Lord Ashcroft”
  2. Opinion: What the hell have the Lib Dems done? (59 comments) by William Summers
  3. Tebbit admits ‘I admire Clegg more than Cameron’ (16 comments) by Stephen Tall
  4. Grassroots pressure stepped up over NHS plans (56 comments) by Mark Pack
  5. Eight words from Ed Balls on the structural deficit (15 comments) by Mark Pack

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Question Time
  2. Internships
  3. Facebook Page
  4. LibDem Vice
  5. New Zealand referendum on the voting system in 2011

5 from the LDV archive

(8th April, 2007-2010)

  1. LibLink: James Graham – Digital economy bill exposes broken system #DEbill (1 comment) by NewsHound, from 2010
  2. The ‘Digital Economy Bill Saints’: the MPs who voted against Labour’s internet freedom clampdown #DEbill (52 comments) by Richard Flowers, from 2010
  3. Ian Tomlinson – full Lib Dem blog round-up (11 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  4. What’s going on in Maidenhead? (1 comment) by Adam Bell, from 2009
  5. A century ago today… (12 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. purdah/purdah period
  2. katie ghose
  3. av referendum postal vote
  4. victorian contraception
  5. tom brake pmq income tax

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @andyreeves Morning everyone – we’ve an election to contest. Use both your votes for the Scottish Liberal Democrats on May 5 #SP11 #solutionsforscotland
  • @lordbonkers I met @zuffarhaq – Lib Dem candidate in Leicester South by-election – on the way home from work. Find him at http://www.zuffarhaq.org.uk
  • @normanlamb Harman’s attack on Clegg re social mobility – depressingly tribal and small minded – particularly after disappointment of Labour years.
  • @ashakaur [ @nick_clegg ] is a brave man for using his own privilege to abolish advantages for others http://bit.ly/hjhcuH #socialmobility
  • @glynley has 31,000 Yes To AV leaflets in the back of his car (& 2 stickers in the windows). #Yes2AV

    • 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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