// Chris Mullin, a former Environment and then Foreign Office minister had complained that the Rochdale MP had been 'collaborating' with 'right wing' newspapers.
He told the New Statesman that while it would be unwise of Mr Corbyn to start a 'purge' of dissenting Labour MPs, there were 'one or two people riding for a fall'.
"This Simon Danczuk fellow seems to have teamed up with the Murdoch press. I don’t object to anyone who has a different opinion from Jeremy or who supported another candidate, but there is a minimum level of solidarity that one would expect to see shown.
"And I notice that Danczuk has been putting himself around in the Murdoch press in the week after Jeremy was elected. He seems to have inspired a very nasty front page lead in the Sunday Times that talked about “punishment beatings”.
"Now collaborating with the nastier elements of the Murdoch press to do down the party is quite a high crime in my book, and if I was in Simon Danczuk’s CLP, I would certainly be sharpening my sword.
"He might well go away to Ukip or somewhere in the end, but good riddance to him, I say. As we have seen, people who defect to Ukip don’t usually last very long." //