IF there's one
thing you can say about Simon Danczuk it's that he's full of his own importance
as can be seen from his latest article for the Mail on Sunday, whose editor in chief is Paul Dacre. So when John McDonnell responded to Danczuk's
latest attempts to destabilise Jeremy Corbyn by dismissing them as, 'Simon being Simon', he showed an astute
awareness of just how Danczuk manipulates the media to enhance his reputation
and his bank balance.
McDonnell is reported to have said that 'moderate' Labour
MPs must come to terms with the party’s new direction, but that left-wing
activists would not be allowed to force them out.
He also said, ‘We are
opposing any threat to individual MPs.
We are not in favour of reselection.
The democratic processes in the Labour position will take place in the
normal way. There is no way we will
allow MPs to be deselected in that way. We
will work together on this.’
This sort of conciliatory attitude by McDonnell and
seemingly by Corbyn, may not be what Simon is really looking for. Last week I heard the idea being floated that
what Simon wants is to provoke party members into calling for him to be
expelled for bringing the Labour party into disrepute so that he can play the
martyr toddle off and join the Tories.
At the time I thought it was a bit far fetched, but now I'm
not so sure.
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