Just so everyone's clear, here

Former president of the PC Party, Paul Reynolds, has no direct knowledge of the conduct of the St. Barbe by-election, or any other by-election before 2007, because he wasn't the Chief Electoral Officer then.

Former president of the PC Party, Paul Reynolds, who was appointed Chief Electoral Officer in 2007, also has no direct knowledge of the conduct of the St. Barbe by-election by way of his investigatory powers and duties as Chief Electoral Office that he has since acquired, because he hasn't investigated that conduct.

And so, having neither superintended that by-election then, nor investigated it since, and having ruled out investigating it, former president of the PC Party, Paul Reynolds, says, to paraphrase, "he will not be pursuing the issue any further and that in his view the St. Barbe byelection was conducted properly."

Just when you think Dannystan couldn't get any more Dannystani, it does.