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29 February (Part 1) - Fickle

Danny HackettThere is a Parliamentary By-Election in Rochdale today and our old friend Danny Hackett is there in support of the Reform UK Party, or more correctly the Reform UK Party Limited owned by Nigel Farage and Richard Tice. (The so called Membership fees are simply donations to wealthy men.)

With the cotton industry gone Rochdale is well known for only one thing, Young white girls and Pakistani men. (Is that two things?)

Readers with their memory cells in good working condition will remember that Danny was once a Labour Councillor in Bexley - a good one too - but the Labour Party didn’t agree and threw him out. There are parallels there with Rochdaleְ’s Reform UK candidate. Labour threw Simon Danczuk out too.

Over time I have seen Danny campaign - or at least distribute leaflets - for Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives and now Simon Danczuk of Reform UK, but why? There is one thing I can think of, the candidates he supports have all been long time personal friends.

I’m not sure how that saw him supporting Hilary Clinton in the U.S. of A. but maybe he thought he might bump into Monica Lewinski.

Simon was until his expulsion, MP for Rochdale but came under the spotlight more than once for Tweets of a dubious nature, such as a reference to the size of his former wife’s breasts. (For the record 34E and she had no objection.)

It may be that Simon would be my best bet in Rochdale but I don’t think I could bring myself to vote Reform UK while Richard Tice is in charge. Advocating mandatory Covid vaccinations makes him a malign dictator not a democrat. Additionally I consider his tendency to appoint candidates who have been thrown out of other parties to be a high risk strategy. In Rochdale it is probably borderline OK but others are dishonest has-beens who most definitely donְ’t deserve anyoneְ’s vote.

 

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