So Simon Danczuk, or as he is more commonly referred to these days, ‘The disgraced Simon Danczuk’ has decided that he is ready to inflict himself upon the good people of Rochdale yet again. Just when we were trying to forget our shame that in 2018 a Labour councillor, Faisal Rana, had voted twice in a local election and escaped censure, we find that our town is back in the news after Simon announced he was to be the Reform Party candidate at the next election seemingly standing on a platform of stopping inward migration across the English Channel. The evident lack of success at this, which seems likely to become the graveyard of the political ambitions of Rishi Sunak, ought to be a warning to all who are tempted to vote for Simon because of course saying you are going to do something isn’t the same as actually doing it. But once he’s got his bum back on the House of Commons benches it will be five years on the expenses gravy train, with all those potentially lucrative newspaper columns and ‘photo-ops’, before he can be called to account.
Naturally so far the column inches have all mentioned his ‘sexting’ escapade in 2017 and his supposed ‘outing’ of Cyril Smith in 2012. But as readers of Northern Voices will already know Cyril Smith was ‘outed’ in 1979 in the columns of ‘The Rochdale Alternative Paper’, (RAP) by the editors David Bartlett and John Walker.
If you have never heard of Simon or just want to refresh your memory of the way he and his co-author managed to turn a few grains of fact about Cyril Smith’s antics at Cambridge House Hostel in the 1960s into a book of ‘flowery flannel’ in the shape of ‘Smile for the Camera ’ published in 2014, then I urge you to scan the past pages of the NV blog where you will find that Simon was mentioned in no less than 259 articles and not always favourably.
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