Sun Blames Danczuk Attack On Corbyn

For a third successive day, the Super Soaraway Currant Bun has devoted part of its front page to attacking Rochdale’s nominally Labour MP Simon Danczuk, although this time round he is only the support act. “Sex text MP’s ex: I’ll finish career” is the brief yet imaginative headline for an article which is quite explicit in its direction - Danczuk’s first wife Sonia Rossington says what she knows will finish him.

Claiming an “exclusive” (although the Mail has already lifted the copy), the piece tells “Shamed MP’s ex labels Danczuk ‘despicable’ in light of texts he sent to young girl - and threatens to bring down his political career with huge secret … THE first wife of sex text shame MP Simon Danczuk last night threatened to destroy his political career … Horrified Sonia Rossington, 39, branded her 49-year-old former husband “despicable” and an embarrassment to his children”. And there was more.

“And hinting at a devastating revelation, she warned: ‘Once I divulge this information, it does not matter if the Labour Party has suspended him or not, he will never ever have a political career again’ … And she insisted: ‘It will end it - from the moment I open my mouth’”. That’s pretty explicit stuff.

The Sun has also claimed an “exclusive” for “Simon Danczuk in lol text gaffe: I’m down with the kids ... I like the Article Monkeys … Sleazy MP’s hilarious ‘streetwise’ attempts to seduce 17-year-old revealed”, where yet more of Danczuk’s ill-advised text messages to then 17 year old Sophena Houlihan are given an airing.

Readers are told “Sophena also once referred to the song ‘Coffee and TV’ … After he was informed it was a record by Blur, Danczuk admitted he was ‘out of touch’ before boasting: ‘I’ve done Glastonbury, Reading etc etc.’ … His knowledge of music streaming services was also exposed by asking: ‘People keep telling me to subscribe to Spotify, is that right?! Do you get films on that?’” Piling on the ridicule, then.

So who would claim the credit - or take the blame, depending on your stance - when Danczuk is finally caused to step down as an MP? It could only be the Sun … couldn’t it? Well, no it couldn’t - not according to the Sun. In an editorial yesterday titled “You Dan fool” (geddit?!?!?), readers are told “Simon Danczuk is a good, campaigning Labour MP with more grasp of what drives ordinary voters than his party’s leaders”. Do go on.

“But his sordid texts to a girl of 17 are inexcusable. They were not just naive and sleazy for a man of his age and position. They were an abuse of power … Sophena Houlihan approached him seeking a job in politics. He took advantage of that to ask her for sex”. And then comes the bodyswerve: “We’re not calling for Danczuk to lose his job. But it’s almost certain he will. He’s already one of the many moderates Labour’s hard-left masters want rid of”.

So there you have it: all that effort put in by the Sun’s hacks and pundits, and would you know it, it was all down to Jeremy Corbyn. Truly the Labour leader has supernatural powers, such that he can work the Murdoch press without knowing it.