Rochdale Election Result:

 Tony Lloyd - Labour 29,035
Jane Howard - Conservative 14,216
Andy Kelly - Liberal Democrat 4,027
Christopher Baksa - UKIP 1,641
Simon Danczuk - Independent 883
Andy Littlewood - Greater Manchester Homeless Voice 242

ROCHDALE ONLINE report at the election count:

 'Rejected by Labour as its candidate, Danczuk [Rochdale's former MP] was well and truly rejected by the electorate of Rochdale attracting an embarrassing 1.76% of the votes cast - losing him his deposit.

'Rubbing salt into Danczuk's monumental ego, his attempt to cost Labour's Tony Lloyd the seat with a despicable smear campaign backfired as Mr Lloyd won with the largest majority ever recorded in the constituency.

'Churlish to the very end, Danczuk refused to be interviewed and stormed out of the count hours before the result when it quickly became obvious he had failed in a quite spectacular fashion.

'The people of Rochdale can now rejoice that Danczuk is finally history, no more sex scandals, no more expenses scandals, no more milking the system for every penny he can get, no more lurid headlines in the national media dragging Rochdale through the mud time and time again.'

Rochdale Election: Careerism vs Moral Compass

YESTERDAY, Rochdale Online editor gave his carefully calibrated opinion on the candidates in the  Rochdale election concluding with the controversal former MP, Simon Danczuk:
'We end with the most controversial candidate, the disgraced former MP Simon Danczuk, standing as an Independent - a man who has shown himself to be wholly unsuited to be an MP will fail to muster anything like the number of votes he expects. Not so low as to lose his deposit, as his many detractors are hoping, but low enough to deal his ego a blow.'
Mr. Danczuk, it will be remembered, increased his majority in the 2015 General Election and at that time the Manchester Evening News reported:
'Simon Danczuk held on to Rochdale for Labour - scooping the biggest majority ever seen in the constituency. 
'He polled 20,961, ahead of second-placed UKIP candidate Masud Mohammed, who claimed 8,519 votes.
'Conservative challenger Azi Ahmed came in third with 7,742 votes, followed by Liberal Democrat Andy Kelly with 4,667.'
It will also be remembered that in the May 1979 General Election, Cyril Smith increased his majority just after he'd been 'outed' as a bully and child abuser at Cambridge House in Rochdale's Alternative Paper (RAP). 
As a consequence of this perverse result one of the editors of RAP, later told me that he departed Rochdale forever, in disgust.

Every country has the government it deserves. Joseph de Maistre
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As Joseph de Maistre said:  'Every country gets the government it deserves'.

Every country has the government it deserves.
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Perhaps every town like Rochdale, gets the MP it deserves!
The editor of Rochdale Online, himself reported to be a member of the Labour Party, wrote approvingly of Tony Lloyd the Labour candidate:
'Whilst he will not reach the lofty heights of the local Labour vote at the last general election (which was inflated by the Lib Dem collapse locally and nationally), Mr Lloyd's message of experience and a safe pair of hands still looks set to give him a reasonable majority.'
Hence, Rochdale may end up exchanging a degenerate form of politics with the colourful Mr. Danczuk for a 'safe' dyed-in-the-wool careerist in Mr. Lloyd.
If we were looking for moral compass we would have to casr our eyes elsewhere:  perhaps to  the outsider Andy Littlewood, standing as the 'Greater Manchester Homeless Voice' candidate or Andy Kelly, the Liberal Democrat, who almost single-handedly opposed the generous rises in councillor's allowances last December.