Sting in the tale?

As the veteran journalist once cryptically observed as he slumped even further on his barstool, sometimes the real story isn’t the one that gets written. Thus we find ourselves pondering if this maxim applies to today’s revelation in the Western Mail about electoral events that were thought to have been settled. Or its just tittle-tattle with no more than minor embarrassment value for Welsh Lib Dems?

It seems that a belated technical challenge has been mounted by a local Labour activist over alleged shortcomings in the process that allowed previously disqualified regional AM Aled Roberts to slip in under the wire.

Such actions are not exactly uncommon in North Wales politics but the twist is that Bill Brereton, unsuccessful Lib Dem candidate for Wrexham and former deputy chief constable, also appears to have leaked confirmed that he wants senior party officials to clear up the discrepancy between Roberts’ claims that he had been misled by inaccurate info on the Electoral Commission website and a statement by the organisation that no hits had been recorded on the day in question.

Whilst the recommendation in favour of reinstating the former Wrexham council leader to the Senedd seemed to many to be based more upon the balance of possibilities rather than anything credible, very few Labour AMs seem intent on forcing the matter, despite the actions of their Clwyd South colleagues.

However, what remains to be seen is the extent to which the disgruntled and the deselected among North Wales’ Lib Dems are willing to take things further. Now that’s a story.