Right-wing Labour MP slammed after appearing to try to gain credit for counter-protest she wanted to stop – and her partner’s past is an embarrasment too
Labour right-winger Stella Creasy has been derided after appearing to try to ‘claim credit’ for the huge turnout of anti-fascist counter-protesters in her Walthamstow constituency – which she apparently tried to stop, including posting a video on Instagram in which she related police advice to stay away from the area:
Creasy posted on Twitter/X calling Walthamstow the ‘house of love’ and thanking the counter-protesters – alongside a beaming self-portrait:
But writer Sol Hughes pointed out that, according to film-maker Jolyon Rubinstein, Creasy appeared to have told Rubinstein that locals should stay home and not go onto the streets:
Activist Joe Guinan considered this an example of ‘a Labour MP running fast to get out to the front’ of what local people had done and to ‘claim credit’:
If Creasy felt that telling people to stay home was the best advice, then that’s her opinion – but for her to then feature herself next to footage of the demo certainly raises questions, particularly when right-wing PM Keir Starmer had ordered MPs not to participate in anti-fascist protests. As a loyal right-wing Labour back-bencher, she presumably obeyed both her boss’s orders and her own advice – although she later claimed to have gone ‘to see for myself the crowds’.
The mismatch did not go down well with respondents.
Creasy’s history does not help matters. When her partner Dan Fox – a former Labour Friends of Israel director was caught on camera, by broadcaster Al Jazeera, at a dinner hosted by an Israel supporter and ‘old friend’ who is, or was at the time, a member of the EDL, the fascist group believed to be behind this week’s far-right racist violence and destruction. Creasy responded by attacking Al Jazeera as antisemitic and misogynist.
Fox has also been slammed for posting a tweet describing Black Jewish left-wing woman Jackie Walker – a favourite target of the pro-Israel right – as ‘so thick, if you tried to drink her through a straw your ears would bleed’:
And around the same time Creasy herself, as Skwawkbox exclusively revealed in 2018, was heavily criticised for posting a racist cartoon to a parliamentary WhatsApp group.
Congratulations to the people of Walthamstow who, like communities around the country – but apparently very few ‘Labour’ MPs – came out en masse to see off the violent and racist far right.
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