The Labour MP Stella Creasy believes police have given online trolls “the green light to target the children of politicians” after she was subject to a baseless complaint to social services.
A man who went by the alias Lance Jones contacted Waltham Forest Council in East London complaining about the MP’s “extremist views”, saying that these views would damage her children and that they should be removed from her care.
The Walthamstow MP, who fought for the right to bring her breastfeeding baby to Parliament, as well as being a prominent women’s rights campaigner, was investigated by her local council after it received the anonymous report.
The council panel, including social services, the police and local schools, dismissed the accusation.
Creasy was quoted as saying: “Leicestershire Police, in their infinite wisdom, decided that this man was entitled – was the word they used – to raise concerns about my views”.
The 46-year-old went on to say: “My views were considered extreme because I am a feminist. The consequence of this is my kids now have a social services record because this man believes that if you have a differing view, the thing to do is threaten to get your kids taken off you.”
The Homeland Party will take a common-sense approach to these types of complaints emanating from anonymous social media accounts. There is an army of civil servant types making a living off sitting on these pointless panels and committees, living off the back of procedure and red tape.
Make no mistake: Stella Creasy is the victim here, though we’d suspect she wouldn’t have a problem with her political opponents falling foul of a malicious complaint. However, she and her parliamentary ilk have facilitated the very type of bureaucratic merry-go-round which she has fallen foul of herself.
