Extracting the Michael

The more they try to ignore it, the more that 'Bates-Gate' manages to attract media attention at weekends – especially in Trinity Mirror circles.

Today, Shipton of the Mail (writing in WoS) points to a since modified blog posting by Dib Lemming which supports the AM accused of assaulting a paramedic and questions the timing of the revelations some two weeks after the event. Despite describing herself as a Lib Dem activist, the blog author has not been a member since last July, according to an official sources. Her views nonetheless appear to chime with a good many rank-and-file members who are dismayed at the way senior party ranks are closing against the Montgomeryshire AM rather than around him.

Meanwhile, Matt Withers explains how printing revelations about Bates just to sabotage the Lib Dems conference would not be considered worth the effort.
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(CS)