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. 85% of Lib Dem members back votes for prisoners (9 comments) by Stephen Tall
2. Why there isn’t a British Nate Silver (12 comments) by Stephen Tall
3. How many votes will the Labour candidate who isn’t a candidate get? (4 comments) by Mark Pack
4. Judging Jimmy Savile (31 comments) by Mark Pack
5. At Coalition half-time, 77% of Lib Dem members continue to back deal with Tories (26 comments) by Stephen Tall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. My letter from Nick Clegg
2. Benefits and the number of children that a person has
3. Disabled Candidates – government help available!
4. Caroline Lucas and LVT
5. Multinationals and Corporate Tax

5 from the LDV archive

(9 November, 2006-11)

1. Heads up: Campbell & Clegg to launch Freedom Bill at 10am (10 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2006
2. Huhne and Clegg set out their views on coalition politics (9 comments) by The Voice, from 2007
3. Should we have more directly-elected Mayors? (17 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2008
4. Academics say airbrushed images do harm girls and boys (11 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
5. Jeremy Browne MP writes… I’m no Tory: I’m a radical, authentic liberal (77 comments) by Jeremy Browne MP, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. “liberal democrats” amnesty immigrants
2. nick clegg
3. minimum wage 2012
4. david cameron
5. national minimum wage

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

Elected to the US Senate today: the first disabled woman, first openly lesbian woman, first Asian woman. #progress #forward

— Cllr John Potter (@johnpotterLD) November 7, 2012

Love the huge surprise on BBC that winning popular vote in US doesn’t equal victory. Nor does it in UK.

— Anders Hanson (@andershanson) November 6, 2012

“People should not be afraid of their government. Government should be afraid of its people.”

— mark a williams (@markawilliams) November 5, 2012

Lib Dems are most news-savvy voters reveals Lord Ashcroft’s polling bit.ly/XnbhL8

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) November 8, 2012

Ming Campbell welcomes Kate Middleton back to her old uni. A fab outfit with attention to detail. Kate looks good too bitly.com/RMc3fJ

— Lib Dem Press Office (@LibDemPress) November 9, 2012

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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…