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
- “There is absolutely no chance of us winning there” – Conservative MP’s Feltham & Heston outburst (8 comments) by Mark Pack
- Opinion: Oh, what is the point?(59 comments) by Alex Marsh
- Opinion: We can’t refinance the economy from the meagre incomes of the poorest, only the wealth of the richest (47 comments) by Tim Nichols
- Pack & Tall Debate… What’s the Lib Dem economic narrative now? (30 comments) by The Voice
- How many failed the conference security checks? (32 comments) by Stuart Bonar
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- Drafting motions
- Good banks for a 200 Club
- Fundraising letters (warning: heretical views contained)
- Feltham & Heston
- Are there any Euro/global equivalents of LDV and LDV Forum?
5 from the LDV archive
(9th/10th December, 2006-10)
- Tuition fees: How Liberal Democrat MPs voted (78 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
- What makes a ‘good’ MP? (5 comments) by Keith Halstead, from 2009
- Chris Fox appointed new Lib Dem Director of Policy & Communications (11 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
- Brian Paddick: senior police see themselves as untouchable (5 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007
- Lib Dems call for Post Office restrictions to be lifted to save our Post Offices (6 comments) by The Voice, from 2006
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- feltham and heston by-election
- tim gordon
- roger crouch lib dem
- david laws
- lib dem conference 2012
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
Well, at least our handbasket is proudly painted in red, white and blue. I hope that’s a comfort to Cameron.
— David Matthewman (@djm4) December9, 2011
*sigh* Two men on @BBCr4today talking about the impact of abortion on womens mental health. Couldn’t get a woman on to comment?
— Lee Chalmers (@leechalmers) December9, 2011
Wish PM would stop conflating women’s interests with family issues- implies that women don’t have political interests outside the home #pmqs
— sophie bridger (@SophieBridger) December7, 2011
On way to Norwich Royal Mail sorting office to see Xmas post preparations.
— Simon Wright (@SimonWrightMP) December9, 2011
It’s Friday afternoon. Choose life. Choose a cuppa over a fourth hour of working on a spreadsheet.
— Nick Bason (@nickbason) December9, 2011
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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…