Caroline Nokes MP launches new smear campaign against Fathers4Justice.
MP with history of false allegations, violence and smears launches new campaign to cover up the betrayal of Britain’s fathers in the run up to the General Election as she battles to keep her seat.
We have been made aware that Caroline Nokes has made a number of false allegations on Twitter about Fathers4Justice today. We have a duty to respond to those allegations which we believe are an attempt to smear the campaign and deflect attention away from her broken 2010 election promises made to Fathers4Justice to support Shared Parenting and her own conduct throughout 2014.
The MP has been implicated in a campaign of violent intimidation which targeted the 8-yr-old son of F4J founder Matt O’Connor and his family, and drove them from their Hampshire home. See links below.
The O’Connor’s began civil action against the MP last year when she admitted being involved in an incident at their home. There then followed a series of incidents, including death threats, hate mail threatening to have their children removed and their car was smashed in. The family were forced to move out of Hampshire as a result.
At the same time the civil action began, Ms Nokes, with the aid of a Tory lobby firm who were fearful the allegations might cost her the seat at the election, began making a series of false allegations about Fathers4Justice in the national press. We respond to these claims in the links below.
Ms Nokes now claims ‘members’ of Fathers4Justice have been arrested and that F4J members had threatened her with “rape and torture, for which they accepted a Police caution…and now written an apology”.
She then makes claims about the Fathers4Justice Facebook page tweeting that the person responsible, “cites he was wound up by ‘utter hatred’ on F4J Facebook page, he was not the only one”.
Firstly, we are unaware of ANY police investigations or arrests. In fact, the ONLY police investigations, arrests and cautions relate to the attacks on the O’Connor’s home and harassment of their family. Secondly, to claim there has been “utter hatred” about the MP on the F4J Facebook page is yet another smear. You might find lively, robust debate about the issues, but never anything that could qualify as ‘hatred’.
Further, nobody from Fathers4Justice has been to the MPs home – the only person who has visited the home of one of the parties was Caroline Nokes, who was involved in an incident at the home of Matt O’Connor in February 2014.
Hampshire Police have never once contacted Fathers4Justice about the allegations made by Ms Nokes. Further, if there have been arrests, she should name and shame those responsible.
Secondly, Fathers4Justice doesn’t have a ‘membership’. If she is referring to the actions of a lone individual, she needs to stop smearing F4J. We are a peaceful, non-violent campaign group with a history of humorous, witty protests. We admit we might have put some overweight men in lycra, but that doesn’t make us the Taliban.
The sole concern of Fathers4Justice is with the introduction of Shared Parenting. If an MP makes an election promise, we believe they should stick to those promises. Caroline Nokes has refused to stand by those promises and refused to sign EDM 210 supporting Shared Parenting.
In fact, she supported the discredited Children & Families Bill, which did not contain a single one of the Conservative Party’s 2010 election promises. Since 2012, the MP has refused to engage in any dialogue with Fathers4Justice. As an elected MP, she should be accountable to the electorate.
Hiding behind false allegations about Fathers4Justice is the same desperate tactic of mothers attempting to deny children a relationship with their dads. An MP who seeks to smear 40,000 families in an attempt to escape her responsibilities to them is equally repugnant and a sad indictment of our broken democratic system.
LIST OF LINKS TO KEY STORIES ABOUT CAROLINE NOKES MP & THE DISUPTE WITH FATHERS4JUSTICE
How Caroline Nokes MP and right-wing Tory extremists have terrorised my family and used political policing to pervert the course of justice
https://www.fathers-4-justice.org/how-caroline-nokes-mp-and-right-wing-tory-extremists-have-terrorised-my-family-and-used-political-policing-to-pervert-the-course-of-justice/
Fathers4Justice rebuttal of the Independent Article
https://www.fathers-4-justice.org/independent-article-rebuttal-fathers4justice-in-court-accused-of-neglecting-their-campaigns-in-favour-of-increasingly-personal-attacks-formal-response-by-matt-nadine-o/
The Tories betrayal of Britain’s fathers continues
https://www.fathers-4-justice.org/the-tories-betrayal-of-britains-fathers-continues-by-matt-oconnor/
F4J refers matter to Police. No action taken.
https://www.fathers-4-justice.org/5th-july-2013-fathers4justice-refers-mps-allegations-to-hampshire-police/
MP @carolinenokes starts false allegations against #Fathers4Justice in 2013 & attempts to shut the @F4JOfficial #Twitter account
https://www.fathers-4-justice.org/caroline-nokes-mp-subverts-democracy-in-smear-campaign-against-f4j/
#SharedParenting promises by @carolinenokes MP are broken #Fathers4Justice
https://www.fathers-4-justice.org/f4j-statement-ref-caroline-nokes-mp-29413/
