Ok. FWIW here is the letter I am going to send to Duncan Hames on Jan 6th as he does not appear to be replying to my emails. Anyone is very welcome to use any part of it in a letter to their own MP.
Dear Mr Hames.
Further to my previous emails you may be aware that the activities of Mr John Hemming on the mumsnet forum have attracted considerable media interest in the first week of January 2014.
He has been suspended from the site following his attempt to reveal the identities of a number of women who post there. I was one of those women. He chose to name me in his blog and I have now been named in the national press.
The media reporting of his behaviour has concentrated on the fact that he revealed on line the name of the mother in the 'forced Caesarean' case and that he was posting while drunk.
That is behaviour which alarms me from an elected politician, posting on an internet forum in his own name. However, my concerns about Mr Hemming's behaviour are much more serious than this. It was not simply the mother's name he revealed on line but the name of her baby; this child was the subject of a reporting restrictions order in the High Court which said she should not be named. Mr Hemming claims publication of her name was 'inadvertent' but I note he has expressed no remorse and made no apology for putting a vulnerable child potentially at risk of identification.
But my concerns about Mr Hemming are not limited to this one incident, serious though I think it is.
For a number of years now Mr Hemming has been a self professed 'crusader' against injustice in the family law system. On mumsnet and elsewhere he repeatedly asserts that up to 1,000 children a year are 'needlessly' adopted and are removed from loving homes so that Local Authorities can meet their 'adoption targets'. He continually asserts that the system is 'corrupt' and that professionals working within it collude to remove children and will tell lies to achieve this end. He advises people to leave the country rather than deal with Children's Services. He has close campaigning links with a number of very worrying individuals such as Ian Joseph whose recommendations include thinking very carefully before reporting even the sexual abuse of your child. He has never provided any evidence to support the very serious allegations he makes.
If any of this is true, it is shocking and I need to know why it is not being investigated at the highest level. If however, as I suspect, none of this is true then I am horrified that Mr Hemming is allowed to continue in this vein as a serving MP, using his position to give his 'advice' extra credibility.
I have been contacted directly by women who received 'advice' from Mr Hemming not to co-operate with Children's Services. They now very much regret following that advice.
As your constituent, I would like to know what the position of the Liberal Democrats is regarding a politician who campaigns in this way, under your banner.