Womans' children taken into care because of her political beliefs.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Yes, the main problem with child services is that too many abusive parents get to keep on abusing their kids.

How that is an argument in favour of letting yet another abusive parent continue abusing kids, is quite beyond me.

The case as I see it: the child services believe the mother is unfit, and that the children will be damaged should they reside with her in her current situation. So, they have decided to intervene. That decision is not one taken lightly, and I have no reason to second-guess them when they finally intervene. The rubbish about snatching kids from political opponents is something I disregard completely as utter nonsense. Child services do not work that way, and you have to be quite conspiratorial to believe it works that way. The mother is making desperate accusations, and as there is no evidence at all, it should be disregarded.

You gleaned all of that from the article linked in the OP?

Basically the same point - so I'll cover them together.

I the article partial?

Yes, certainly.

Even so, neither of you know what it is like over here - I live in a deprived area of the UK where up to 33% of children have parents who are too poor to feed them, apparently, and they get free school meals. Fourth kid on the way at 25? Over here the verdict would be "not trying hard enough". There are dozens of children I know of in a much worse state, the kid with eight siblings, another on the way, an unemployed single mother and a two bedroom house. He's a child and his life is already over before it has even begun.

What I have gleaned from the article is that this EDL-supporting women has the support of her Lib Dem MP. That's litterally one step above a Jewish MP supporting an actual Neo-Nazi, or at best two steps. That tells me the MP doesn't think there are sufficient grounds for taking her kids away due to her character and he wouldn't get casually involved given her political affiliation. If it transpires she has been beating her kids or locking them in the chokey I'll happily withdraw my complaint but if that were the case I would suspect it would already be known locally and, again, the MP would not be supporting her.

If it transpires the deciding factor against her is a far-right political connection than that is a travesty - especially given the vogue for anti-Muslim feeling among the Middle Class in this country.