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“JUDAS” Labour MP Simon Danczuk made more than £29,000 last year from penning pieces for right-wing newspapers — including regular attacks on his own party, the Morning Star can reveal.
Mr Danczuk, who has been suspended from the party after reports he sent sexual messages to a 17-year-old, pocketed the huge sum from the Daily Mail Group and Rupert Murdoch’s News Group newspapers — all of which backed the Conservatives at last year’s general election.
But his cosy relationship with the Tory press have not stopped the Sun and Mail exposing shocking claims about his private life.
The so-called Labour “moderate” earned £17,500 from the Mail group between January and October 2015 for writing or contributing to 10 articles, according to the register of MPs’ interests.
One piece alone netted him £7,000.
He spent 31.5 hours on the articles, which include an opinion piece about leader Jeremy Corbyn headlined Laughable Shambles and a Labour conference diary titled My Four Days of Despair.
But Mr Danczuk was just as willing to lay into Ed Miliband, who he once called a “fucking knob,” during his stint as leader — writing five pieces before the general election.
The Rochdale MP also raked in £12,351 for 15 hours’ work for the Murdoch press.
A senior Labour MP accused Mr Danczuk yesterday of “taking his 30 pieces of silver” — the price paid to Judas to betray Jesus.
“I think it’s completely unacceptable that a Labour MP should financially benefit from undermining his own party,” the MP told the Star.
“The very party that helped to get him elected and put him in the position to be relevant to write the articles.
“He’s spent a considerable amount of time and energy on these articles, which would have been time better spent helping take on the Tories and serving his constituents.”
Mr Danczuk made another £7,530 last year from media work with broadcasters and in 2014 established Danczuk Media Ltd to “assist in the production of media articles.”
