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The LDV Friday Five: 8 July 2011

By | Fri 8th July 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. What does the Inverclyde result mean for the Scottish Liberal Democrats? (25 comments) by Caron Lindsay
  2. John Hemming MP: Why I’m calling for a review of the smoking ban (70 comments) by John Hemming MP
  3. Labour holds Inverclyde with reduced majority (27 comments) by Helen Duffett
  4. LDVideo: That Ed Miliband TV interview car crash in full (8 comments) by Stephen Tall
  5. Tim Farron MP writes: Out of the Westminster bubble (7 comments) by Tim Farron MP

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. “I’ve only just moved in”….
  2. Switching to renewable energy
  3. Same-sex marriage
  4. Google+
  5. Selling the brand “Liberal Democrats”

5 from the LDV archive

(8th July, 2007-10)

  1. Opinion: A Cornish perspective on the Budget and VAT (18 comments) by Andrew George MP, from 2010
  2. Vince: “This is not so much a White Paper as a blank paper” (0 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. It’s a three-way contest for next Scottish Lib Dem leader (1 comment) by The Voice, from 2008
  4. Opinion: Why we should back liberal Free Schools (71 comments) by Christopher Leslie, from 2008
  5. Isn’t this perfectly reasonable? (6 comments) by Geoffrey Payne, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. sophie bridger
  2. ed miliband interview
  3. lembit opik
  4. john russell lib dem
  5. aled roberts

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @jamiewake First pride parade as a member of the #libdems – the leaders in fighting for equality. Today I’m proud to be gay and proud to be a lib dem
  • @timfarron i’m rather proud to be president of the only party that has never sucked up to or been backed by news international
  • @DrEvanHarris Editorial line & conduct of #notw not fault of sportswriters, etc facing the sack. Mind you, the astrologer should’ve seen it coming
  • @leechalmers RT @Fem2pt0 A Few Reasons Why #Women Shouldn’t Go Into #Politics http://ow.ly/5z8L5 #fem2
  • @charlotteahenry Take That eat your heart out. (iPlayer crashed and I couldn’t resist!!) http://twitpic.com/5m19rf
    Take That eat your heart out. (iPlayer crashed and I couldn&#... on Twitpic

    • 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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