Brian Greenslade's pre-Christmas press release about his decision to stand down as Lib Dem group leader on Devon County Council said nothing about the deep unhappiness in his party following his challenge to its official candidate in November's police commissioner election.
The Liberal Democrat party rule book is quite clear - Brian should have been expelled. But then it turned out that he wasn't a member anyway, having not paid his subscriptions for more than a year. "We can't expel someone who's not a member," one senior Lib Dem tells me, almost wishing that this were not true.
I suspect that Brian's official title as Lib Dem group leader on North Devon district council might soon be about to change, too, swelling further the ranks of the independents.
Meanwhile I have calls to make to the Information Commissioner, to check on the progress of inquiries into former Devon & Cornwall police authority chairman Mike Bull. The issue is whether Mr Bull's campaigning in support of Brian Greenslade breached data protection rules.
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