As the dogs of war circle around the Pedigree Chum of electoral conflict, Lib Dem Voice takes what might be its last peacetime foray into the blogosphere. As usual, we’ll review the top seven click-throughs from the Lib Dem Blogs aggregator, together with five hand-picked key posts that deserve targetting.

So quicker than you can count to four, here are the the top seven posts:

1. Hampstead and Kilburn Raring to Go on Jonathan Fryer’s blog
Ed Fordham MP has a certain ring to it, doesn’t it? Jonathan thinks so.

2. Council by-elections: what’s been going on? on Lib Dem Voice
If there were such a thing as a drudgeon that is what Mark’s fact-checking would be to the Tories.

3. Urgent phone call makes me ask – “Is an election about to be called ?” by Norfolk Blogger Nich Starling
Nich Starling hears the call of duty.

4. Hazel Blears – prejudice cuts both ways on Jonny Wright’s Hug a Hoodie blog
Hazel is berated by our favourite Hoodie, who jumps to the defence of the Blondest Suicide Note In History.

5. How ready are the Tories? on Lib Dem Voice
Find out within.

6. Trouble brewing for Tories? on Lib Dem Voice
Problems for Sham Cam? Surely not!

7. 10 reasons why Brown will call an election next week on Jonathan Wallace’s eponymous blog
It’s what we’re all talking about. Stop reading teh internets and deliver some leaflets this afternoon!

And here are five that caught my eye and might be attractive to yours:

8. Gordon Brown: The seeds of his own failure on Cicero’s Songs
Cicero looks at the problems laid in Brown’s reaction to the Northern Rock crisis.

9. The Lib Dems were wrong to call for an early election on Jonathan Calder’s Liberal England blog
Jonathan wonders if it’s a case of ‘be careful what you wish for?’ I say ‘bring it on’.

10. Day 2454: Miranda Grell versus Witches on The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant
“It used to be lonely old women and gay daddies who would get picked on; these days… not much has changed, actually.”

11. Labour and the Liberal Democrats – whose progressive agenda? on Lindyloo’s Muze
Our woman undercover at the Labour party conference reports on the enemy’s movements.

12. Telephone Canvassing Nightmare on Alex Foster’s blog
“During the most recent call, to a keen sounding chap in the Derby area, I was standing up with my hand in my back trouser pocket, when my fingers squished something squidgy that really shouldn’t have been there.”

And so ends our story.

* Richard Huzzey is not Stephen Tall. You can tell because he doesn’t have an earring.

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