Category Archives: Friday Five

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. Lord Clement-Jones on the Digital Economy Bill: web blocking amendment (231) by Tim Clement-Jones.
2. Digital Economy Bill: Parliamentarians reply to prospective candidates (44) by Mark Pack.
3. BNP announce Parliamentary Candidate for Buckingham (8) by Helen Duffett.
4. 5 reasons Nick Clegg should rule out a coalition now (23) by Stephen Tall.
5. Lib Dems select Nick Griffin’s biographer to fight BNP in Barking (3) by Helen Duffett

5 active LDV Members’ Forum threads

Emergency motion – Freedom, creativity & the internet
Death taxes
Purdah
Mock Election Packs
David Laws agrees with the case to reduce inequality of outcome

5 most active groups on ACT

1. Say No to Trident
2. Act Creative
3. Lib Dems for some decent IT Policy
4. Approved Candidates
5. Liberal Youth Action Network

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

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. Times report: Tories “make inroads” into Lib Dem support in south-west England. (But where’s the evidence?) (15) by Stephen Tall.
2. Why Gordon Brown will start the TV election debates with an advantage over David Cameron (2) by Mark Pack.
3. BBC drops Lib Dems from Question Time, again #bbcqt (11) by Mark Pack.
4. The Saturday debate: Burkas – to ban or not to ban? (48) by Mark Pack.
5. Those Lib Dem donation figures in full (Q4, 2009) (7) by Stephen Tall.

5 active LDV Members’ Forum threads

Tower Block of Commons
Death taxes
Twitter as a campaigning tool
National Bullying Helpline/Christine Pratt
Latest Lib Dem Voice Survey

5 biggest groups on ACT

1. Liberal Youth
2. Nick Clegg Meets…
3. NO2ID
4. Approved Candidates
5. ALDC

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

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. Clegg sacks Jenny Tonge (73) by The Voice.
2. How Lib Dem members rate the performances of our shadow cabinet (2) by Stephen Tall.
3. Are these the three most fanciable Lib Dem MPs? (13) by Stephen Tall.
4. How can we sell the Single Transferable Vote to the public? (39) by Stephen Tall.
5. Jonny Oates writes: The Lib Dems’ campaign slogan – Building a fairer Britain (40) by Jonny Oates.

5 active LDV Members’ Forum

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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 happened to the 19 Conservative MPs who voted to keep MPs’ expenses secret? (8) by Mark Pack.
2. +++ Exclusive general election prediction: too close to call (8) by Mark Pack.
3. The 14 non-Lib Dem MPs who backed the Single Transferable Vote (9) by Stephen Tall.
4. FT: Tories face “tough battle” to oust Chris Huhne in Eastleigh (5) by Stephen Tall.
5. How can we sell the Single Transferable Vote to the public? (19) …

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. So, what do you make of this graph about gender and politics? (24) by Mark Pack.
2. Opinion: UK Border Agency plunges colleges into crisis (20) by the Head of a private college.
3. Crikey, I appear to know more about Liverpool than the new Labour candidate (5) by Mark Pack.
4. The Independent View: Why Lib Dem, Labour and Green progressives must work together (46) by Anneliese Midgley.
5. The second biggest fight in Wales: Ceredigion …

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. EXCLUSIVE: Standards Commissioner rules four journalists broke Parliament’s rules (4) by Mark Pack
2. Oaten reduced to tears in new Channel 4 documentary (29) by The Voice
3. Opinion: UK Border Agency plunges colleges into crisis (15) by the Head of a private college
4. What the pollsters think will happen at the general election (7) by Stephen Tall
5. Liberal Democrat Mayor suspended over benefits investigation (12) by Mark Pack

5 new Liberal Democrat blogs

Burning …

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. Julian Huppert selected for Lib Dems in Cambridge (13) by Helen Duffett
2. Lib Dem PPC resigns over e-mail allegations (17) by Sara Bedford
3. Lib Dem MPs split on Euro referendum? (9) by Stephen Tall
4. Home schooling: what is the liberal approach? (37) by Stephen Tall
5. It’s “Let’s Make Nice Month”: experimental change to LDV’s comments policy (31) by Stephen Tall

5 active LDV Members’ Forum threads

Fox Hunting Ban
Cameron’s love bombing
Voter …

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. And when I tried to high-five Stephen Tall by way of celebration, he thought I was putting up my hand and asking to compile the Friday Five again. Ah, why not -

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

1. Revealed: the Lib-Con pact election poster (33) by Stephen Tall
2. What do we want? Section 63 of the Metropolitan Paving Act 1817 of course (20) by Mark Pack
3. NEW POLL: Who is your Liberal Voice of the Year? (22) by Stephen Tall
4. Gina Ford vs Nick Clegg (12) by Mark Pack
5. Liberal Youth … the story continues (26) by The Voice

5 active LDV Members’ Forum threads

Public nudity
Book: Crap MPs
Marriage Without Borders
PPCs for the next General Election
Helvetica Neue Font Set (-my favourite! But then I’m a font fiend.)

What could be simpler: five categories, each with five links. And it’s Friday.

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

1. Times: Tories “give up” on Cheadle with Lib Dems digging in for victory (6) by Stephen Tall
2. What makes a ‘good’ MP? (5) by Keith Halstead
3. What does Glenda Jackson do? (1) by Mark Pack
4. Book review: British Electoral Facts (1) by Mark Pack
5. Spelman drops Conservative pledges to abolish RDAs (8) by Mark Pack

5 active LDV Members’ Forum threads