Simon Danczuk is 'doing great harm to the Labour party', says local Labour party member

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Simon Danczuk

Yet another column in the Conservative supporting Mail from Rochdale Labour MP Simon Danczuk doing the Tories dirty work for them, undermining the Labour leader and the Labour party.

The contents of the articles he is being paid to write for the Mail bear witness to the lengths he is prepared to go to, he is quite prepared to sabotage the party.

He would choke on the level of disloyalty on display if it were aimed at him by members of Rochdale Constituency Labour Party. Make no mistake he would be apoplectic with rage and his past history shows he would seek to silence them and have them expelled from the party.

Danczuk of course has history as a 'Brutus', he and his master of the dark arts, Matt Baker, sought every opportunity to stab Labour party colleague, Colin Lambert, in the back when he became leader of Rochdale Council - Lambert's 'crime' had been to ask for leniency for the party members who Danczuk had expelled.

Danczuk rants about the 'hard left', conveniently forgetting a member of his campaign team in the 2010 general election was Stefan Chowleka, a Trotskyist 'hard left' Labour member.

He seeks to cast those in his party that do not share his views as extremists and himself as a 'moderate', in fact, those who have listened closely to Danczuk over the last few years will know his views are such that many struggle to reconcile them with the socialist principles of the Labour party.

Some members of Heywood & Middleton Constituency Labour Party have put their head above the parapet and called Danczuk to account, hence he even 'tarred' Heywood & Middleton CLP as "extremist" when in fact he knows full well that Heywood & Middleton CLP backed Andy Burnham in the leadership election. Consider that the late Gentleman Jim Dobbin was Heywood & Middleton MP and now the thoroughly decent Liz McInnes is Heywood & Middleton MP and then you may conclude that Danczuk is up to his usual trick of smoke and mirrors.

Danczuk's smear tactics are very familiar to those who have disagreed with him in Rochdale, his 'modus operandi' is to ruthlessly assassinate their characters. Not for nothing is he known locally as 'Slyman' Danczuk.

When he arrived in Rochdale, Danczuk surrounded himself with a team that did exactly what he is accusing Jeremy Corbyn's supporters of doing; the Danczuk team hounded opponents using tactics he now describes as "intimidation" when used by those who seek to hold him to account.

It is of course acceptable to disagree with your party, but to constantly write articles that sabotage the party is completely unacceptable behaviour.

To the calls of those who seek to have him disciplined he cries 'purge' but that is of course errant nonsense, another of his familiar tactics of heading off criticism by portraying himself as a victim. That tactic should not stop the Labour party doing the right thing.

Danczuk is doing great harm to the Labour party and that cannot, and should not, be allowed to continue. Enough is enough, the time has come for the Labour party to charge Danczuk with bringing the party into disrepute, there can be no doubt the charge is merited.

Rochdale Online has verified the identity of the Labour Party Member