He also has some very influencial - and in my eyes at least -...

He also has some very influencial - and in my eyes at least - highly astute businessmen - as supporters. Sir Ron Brierley for one....

Have the other 80% of the board been asleep all this time ?

IS a good lawyer all it takes to turn the board of a major bluechip company into a dictatorship ?

Or are the other 8 members of this ships disasterous captaincy team simply looking for a scape goat to get them off the hook ?

CML does buy heaps from companies associated with Lew. Is there a suggestion that they have been paying over the odds ? I have never seen this assertion made - merely that there is something wrong because they are Lew's, as if in some way this says it all.

Look, I'm not here to defend Lew cause I couldn't give a toss one way or the other, but I reckon there is more to this than meets the eye...and none of it is good for long suffering CML shareholders....