HemmingGate: To ban or not to ban, that is the question MNHQ

[CarpeVinum]

Some of us would like to know if a certain politico will be banned, proper.

No rush.

We know you have a lot on your plate with ... stuff.

(I probably got two quotes mixed up in subject line. Don't panic! It's me not you. Am philistine. Italy is wasted on me. Not keen on art, prefer shopping.)

Time for an email methinks.

I once went to a Private Eye Lunch where Kathy Lette spent the entire time sitting on Richard Ingram's lap, Zoe Heller pouted and I whimpered in the corner. Just sayin'.

John from birminham made a great comment. ai hope it gets voted up. awell up. aand up some more. i hope poeple conetsct esch other, from say work and such, just so even more up votes arrive, and make it top comment ever... or something.

'John from Birmingham' has commented:

John, Birmingham, 32 minutes ago
He wasn't banned for revealing the mother's name, but because he breached a court order by revealing the child's name, and also those of her siblings. It is no excuse to say he didn't realise the names were in the document: he clearly could read Italian well enough to make quite detailed comments on the document, and anyway the nature of the names and the fact that they were printed with initial capitals made it very obvious that that was what they were. It is also absolutely no excuse to say he didn't know the rules of the site: when you are an MP using your status as such to comment using a public forum, you really do have a duty to make sure you know and follow the rules, which are really just common sense anyway.

Loving lovely John!

Madame so if we got YOU on twitter, they might listen ?

It's OK, we don't want you whimpering in the corner, they don't sound nice, stay here with us, we are lovly.

We love ajohn.

Daily Mail commentstor john that is.

Not any other John.

X - post Carpe!

great minds!

I heart John from Birmingham - way to nail it .

I doubt it. 'Twas many moons ago!

Also, you don't need to "read the rules" on mumsnet. It's the same bleeding rule over over the net. A net he appears to spend a great deal of time on.

His minimising make him look shallow, in my opinion.

If politicians take guidance from their eight year old children on how to behave in an appropriate manner as an adult with additional public responsibilities, then we are in a pickle. Oh yes, that's right, we are, aren't we?

Yay for JohnTheCommentor! :)

why would you be discussing MN and being banned for revealing children's names in a court case to your child anyway?

There don't seem to be many boundaries in the Hemming household.

Nono, remember, he's been put on the 'naughty step' - that's what he was discussing with his daughter

I agree, he looks rather defensive in his attempts to minimise IMO.

Madame have you seen the "minimising" meme we made ?

Could we get away with a meme thread do you think ?

No pics here.

Put it in "have you seen this". Slightly less off the radar than chat?

is it the one one in Hemmings soeak>

I suggest an amendment, which is Hemmingspeak 'Oops!

then the rest

Slightly more even

I've just clicked on to the Birmingham Post page. There is no trace of Hemming gate at all. It appears to have disappeared. Maybe it's just my searching skills, but I did have a good look.

another one picked it up, a local paper ?

www.expressandstar.com/editors-picks/2014/01/02/mp-john-hemming-banned-from-mumsnet-after-revealing-the-identity-of-users/

maybe both the post and the mail have been crashed by interested peeps looking?

Its the birmingham mail...
link here

Page is down atm though

Maybe the site got brought down by number ?

The hemminggate in the DM has over 600,000 facebook likes already.