Another Sunday and another national journalist peddling Danczuk speculation

Simon Danczuk

'Black Dog' in the Mail reckons Danczuk is considering defecting to UKIP and quotes a source as saying ‘His Rochdale constituency is a Ukip heartland’.

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3863484/BLACK-DOG-Sexting-Simon-Danczuk-message.html

1. As one local Labour member said: "The likelihood of Danczuk resigning his lucrative position knowing he has no chance of winning as a UKIP candidate is on a par with a turkey voting for Christmas."

2. The Rochdale constituency is not a "UKIP heartland". At the last General Election in May 2015, UKIP trailed Labour by a massive 12,400+ votes.

• http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/elections/election-summary/25/rochdale-general-election-2015

UKIP locally say they don't want him, David Winder, Vice Chairman of UKIP Rochdale Heywood & Middleton, said: "Danczuk is not welcome in UKIP locally and never will be as we prefer our candidates to be in it for the electorate and not in it for themselves.

"In my opinion he isn't fit to represent this town or its people."

• http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/129/letters-to-the-editor/105785/letter-danczuk-not-welcome

Last weekend another Mail columnist, Dan Hodges, said a colleague of Danczuk's had told him Danczuk was threatening to resign and stand as an Independent and added the claim that Danczuk "is said to enjoy significant personal support in his constituency" - that was greeted with a mix of incredulity and scorn locally:

• http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/105648/danczuk-hits-the-nationals-again

Danczuk remains suspended from the Labour Party for sending sex messages to a 17-year-old girl.

Meanwhile Danczuk's ex-wife, Karen, is raking in another pay day courtesy of the Danczuk's favourite photo agency, Fame Flynet, with a series of staged photos in Spain - where she recently "feared for her life" at the hands of Danczuk - with her new boyfriend published by the Mail:

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3862556/Selfie-queen-Karen-Danczuk-33-puts-busty-display-black-one-piece-gets-intimate-toyboy-lover-26-swimming-pool-Spain.html