I think, having continued to follow this intently (am on mat leave) that we need to remember what she did. If a friend I knew, someone who’d been in my home and around my children and in my life, turned out to be an online poser saying things and stirring stuff about me or people I know/work with and that they had worked with too, I would be pissed. Really pissed. And it would make me question absolutely everything they’d ever done. The trust is broken. Whether she said things in jest or to make peoooe think she wasn’t who she was is irrelevant, it would still make me question them. Trust is really hard to get back when it’s broken.
As a HCP I also think it’s right she’s called into the nmc to answer her self. Not about being racist or whatever but because she’s called into question her integrity and the integrity of her profession, her employers and any future mothers that come into contact with her. She needs to answer to her governing body why she felt she could do what she did, say what she did and act unprofessionally. She should always uphold the value of her governing body, esp as a midwife and HCP with such a huge following, and she hasn’t done that. So let’s not feel sorry for her.
Let’s all bring it back to what she did that started this and got caught. Everything else spinning out of control is just conjecture and I’m sure will calm down when people get bored.
As I’ve said before I’ve met her and fell for the persona she sold. And she wasn’t/isn’t that person. She deserves to feel anxious and scared. More fool her.