Within weeks of Beatrice Fraenkel's long overdue defection to Labour, news emerges of more turmoil in the Lib Dim ranks.
Today's Daily Post begins to lift the corner of the rotting carpet of the Lib Dim's internal warfare, with a short, but completely accurate, story about the deselection of Kevin Firth after 10 years service as a councillor.
Firth, a close colleague of Inspector Clueless Richard Marbrow, was dumped by the Lib Dims from Old Swan.His crime?
Firth had the temerity to speak out against Fireman Bradley over the Mathew Street fiasco.
Well actually, it wasn't even that rebellious - Firth simply tried to hold Bradley to account for the Mathew St cock-up during a Lib Dim group meeting in December.
Firth had the audacity to stand up and ask a few pertinent questions about who did what, when and who knew what, when.
This was too much for the power-crazed fireman who has not the faintest idea of what is meant by political accountability.
He hit the roof at Firth's questioning and berated him in his customary 'angrily chewing a wasp' manner for daring to ask questions of "The Leader of the Council".
(Entertainingly, Bradley has become so puffed-up with his own self-importance that he has now taken to referring to himself in the third person! eds)
Meanwhile, his fireman lieutenant Steve Hurst, who faces trial on election offences in June, made a mental note of Firth's transgressions.
Bradley, Hurst and the Storeyteller then met secretly with Old Swan colleagues Keith Turner and the appalling and totally beyond redemption Bernie Turner, to plot Firth's downfall.
An extra reason for knifing him (apart from the Clueless connection of course, eds) was Bradley's claim that Firth had leaked "The Leader of the Council's" email to CoverUp demanding the Harbarrowboy's head over Mathew Street.
So off went Firth's head instead.
What is significant about today's Daily Post story is that it obviously comes from deep inside the Lib Dim group and reflects extreme unhappiness at Bradley's bully-boy tactics.
Expect more dissent to be publicly voiced soon.
We turn now to the deselection of another Lib Dim councillor - Ann Hines - from West Derby after 14 years.The Fireman was desperate to keep Hines in place because of her compliant, no-questions-asked obedience to whatever he said.
So all manner of extraordinary tricks and manouevres were pulled to ensure Hines was re-selected as the Lib Dim candidate in May - which she duly was.
However this was too much for her two West Derby colleagues, the semi-detached Stuart Monkcom and Norman Mills who had been extremely critical of Hines's work-rate and attendance record.
They complained to the Lib Dim's nationally about Bradley and Storeyteller's role in this cynical stitch-up.
Astonishingly, their complaint was upheld by the national party who ordered that the West Derby party go through another candidate selection.
This was yet another humiliating smack in the chops for the Fireman, especially when, in the re-run, Ann Hines was duly-deselected.
Imagine his barely disguised fury at this turn of events.
Coming soon: It's Grand National time - so who are the runners and riders in The Lib Dim Succession Stakes?
