Parliament shouldn’t be a creche, Stella

DO YOU work in a place where lots of tiny people run around having screaming ab-dab tantrums and crying because they want their mummy, they want their naps and now their num-nums are late? Yes, me too. But at least we don’t have to put up with children in the Daily Mail office.

Stella Creasy MP is annoyed she can’t take her ‘well-behaved, three-month-old sleeping baby when I speak in chamber’. Oh come off it, Stella. What threemonth-old is well behaved? Even Theresa ‘Wheat Fields’ May had her bawling, wet nappy moments. Be serious for a moment.

Parliament is a place of work, not a crèche. Most parents cannot take their babies to the workplace and Westminster is no exception. ‘Mothers in the mother of all parliaments are not to be seen or heard it seems,’ she harrumphed on Twitter, where she has also noted that mask awareness is not all it could be in Westminster. So why take a baby into such a dangerous environment?

God save us all from the crazed entitlement of new mothers. Why can’t Stella just take her fully paid up maternity leave then employ a nanny or have day-care, like every other working mum?