I am not a fan of Simon Danczuk although in all my encounters with him he has been unfailingly polite and courteous which does count for something. He has a number of political views I don’t share, he shows far too little respect to a newly elected leader of the Labour Party, and some of his […]
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We may not like Simon Danczuk but he is entitled to fair treatment and natural justice
Jan 1st, 2016 by Jon Lansman.Destroying the Labour Party in order to save it
Nov 1st, 2015 by David Osland.‘We had to destroy the village in order to save it’; that maxim – a paraphrase of words famously uttered by a US Army major to a journalist during the Vietnam war – now stands a metaphor for the perspectives of a sizeable chunk of the Labour right. Cast aside pious invocations of the interests of […]
Owen Jones is as bad as Hitler?
Jul 10th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Listen to ‘Far left as bad as the BNP, says Labour MP’ on Audioboo That there Owen Jones, he’s worse than Hitler. Well, maybe not worse but equally as bad. At least according to Simon Danczuk, the Rochdale MP who recently caused a row by openly backing the planned change to extend the aigning on waiting time […]
Labour MP Simon Danczuk supports Osborne’s benefits delay
Jul 2nd, 2013 by Conrad Landin.No, it’s not April 1st. George Osborne’s alteration of the three-day delay for claiming benefits following unemployment has already been savaged as a “growth plan for food banks”. Yet according to Simon Danczuk, Labour MP for Rochdale and fresh from a questionable parliamentary selection prior to the 2010 general election campaign, this is “fair enough”.