Here is an interesting perspective on the ‘housing awards’ in Stella Creasy’s constituency at the weekend – from a constituent.

Writing in the Huffington Post, Melanie Briggs says that she and her family “are staring down the barrel of a compulsory purchase order” – part of a “social cleansing wrecking ball” as her area awaits redevelopment.

She talks of residents of Butterfields, which is home to long-stay private tenants on low rents.

The charity that owns their homes has sold the freehold to a developers and on Saturday won Creasy’s award for “most outrageous behaviour”.

Briggs wonders, however, why Creasy’s conscience wasn’t similarly pricked by the mass eviction of private tenants paying market rates from another estate.

She ends her blog with a reference to the agent named Worst last year and which won Best this: “This year, Central Estates won both the Best Estate Agent and Best Letting Agent by a landslide.

“This is possibly more indicative of the voter apathy for these awards in Walthamstow (0.03% turnout) than any sea change in its shiny-suited team members’ behaviour.

“Social media is already buzzing with cries of “FIX”; this year’s publicity shots feature a more grim-faced Stella than last. It’s all a bit awkward. I suspect there won’t be a third awards ceremony and I’m glad for that.”

Actually, Central Estates is no doubt the local market leader for a very good reason and satisfied customers were only too happy to say so (we can’t comment on the shiny suits, but it seems a cheap jibe).

But if the “awards” do not happen again, no doubt Central Estates and just about all the other agents in Walthamstow will be happy enough.

Surely it is not the job of an MP to lead even a tiny number of constituents to cast what could be very damaging judgement on local businesses.