GETTING BACK TO THE REAL WORLD AFTER BEING IN THE CLUTCHES OF SOCIAL SERVICES

Hello, my fellow Wowsers ! Sorry to have let you down recently by being conspicuous by my absence, but I’ve had a slightly difficult time – to say the least ! Writing the blog has been out of the question really. I have been pushed to the limits of endurance, read on and find out exactly what I mean.

So, tonight I am mildly inebriated, my mind slightly numbed with red wine – not a lot – only about three quarters of a bottle so far. Age dictates that I can no longer drink the fairly heroic amounts of red wine I used to drink. And I am listening to some delightful classical music – Brahms, Chopin, various Gregorian chants, Vespers etc. Fantastic ! Good food, good wine, good music – food for the soul.

But I have had the first decent bit of food for six months, and I have just stuffed ‘triple chocolate’ – that’s just a fancy name for a lot of chocolate – ice cream into my mouth after a ‘main course’ of fried then boiled minced beef with just some fried onions and an Oxo cube with a copious amount of frozen peas, one fried sausage from a specialist ‘sausage shop‘ and some boiled rice using chicken stock, then fried; delicious.

Not exactly gourmet food, but out of this World after the utter garbage I have been forced to eat in the bed and breakfast accommodation social services threw me and my son into during then past six months.

My son announced by means of a voicemail message he sent me after leaving school this afternoon that he was going off with a new found friend to have a ‘sleep-over’ at his new friend’s house just around the corner from our rented house so I am Alone ! The ultimate luxury of a parent plagued with the demanding presence of a child constantly present for thirteen years.

There was a bit of bother. He didn’t tell me the address and I couldn’t get a connection on my useless THREE G mobile phone to listen to his voicemail message which would give me the telephone number he was calling from. The THREE G mobile telephone and internet service is utterly useless as I have found out to my cost since signing up to it shortly after I was evicted from my house six months ago. It is almost always just not working as it is completely overloaded and not enough bandwidth is available for the volume of calls.

It often just doesn’t work because the Hutchinson Whampoa THREE Mobile phone company just don’t provide enough transmission masts in the UK for proper network coverage. I think they are just con merchants really.

They have let me down badly over the past few months as I depended completely on them for being able to function to keep in touch and generally sort out my life. Loads of other people have told me they are a useless mobile telephone and mobile internet company too, with similar tales of being unable to make connections whenever they want to make a a telephone call or use the internet.

But now I am in my new rented house in Tunbridge Wells; not brilliant, but better than the disgusting Bed and breakfast accommodation in Crawley the social services flung my son and I into.

HOW COUNCILS DELIBERATELY SET OUT TO ABUSE HOUSING LAW

AND TO WILFULLY DESTROY PEOPLE’S LIVES WITHOUT A THOUGHT TO THE CONSEQUENCES

Dear Mr ……………,

Apologies for this being so long, but all these points mentioned are so inextricably entwined it is difficult to disentangle them to make this shorter.

I have just received this email from from the council official ………… to you below. 

She seems to be making no sense at all to me and I cannot understand why she is making problems where none would normally exist. The only reasonable explanation is that it appears she is oblivious to the facts surrounding this matter. Viz:

– She smugly announces in her email to you below that the Council has… ‘so far paid a lot of public money to store…………. belongings and he has made no attempt to arrange to pay this money back or to sort through the containers and dispose of what he will not be able to take to a 2 bed property’.

She is utterly disregarding the immense extra expenditure of public money which she has been unnecessarily responsible for in behaving in the manner she has done. So far well in excess of £10 000 of public money has been unnecessarily spent when a mere fraction of that amount could have been applied to sort the problem out differently.

– This Council official is suddenly and suspiciously stung into life by your contact with her today and on being informed the indications are that I might well be moving into settled accommodation within just seven days or so, she suddenly says, “I will confirm with the removal company tomorrow when they can make the containers available for collection and I will let you know.  If they have not been collected or payment taken over by that date, they will be disposed of the next day’.  I think you will agree that the Council has been very patient in this case and allowed far more time for storage than the statutory requirement at a significant cost to the public purse.’

She seems quite unaware that not paying a mere £63 for the final seven days of storage prior to my imminent move, measured against the existing investment in storage is an expression of pure, mindless, bureaucratic spite which I cannot help but think is quite, quite deliberate.

This Council official is also displaying incredible and obviously deliberate unpleasant inconsideration by explaining that the storage containers ‘must be collected by a certain date otherwise the goods will be disposed of the next day’.

She is consciously and deliberately inventing hurdles which she must know are insurmountable so that there can be a guarantee that she can dispose of my possessions without me having the slightest prospect of retrieving them . This is venal, dishonest and nasty.
 

The containers in which the goods are stored are specially designed to be carried around by the Removal company’s lorries and remain on those lorries while they are loaded up with items to be stored.

The lorry then returns to the removal company’s warehouse where the large sealed containers are lifted off the lorries by large machinery and placed in permanent, storage where they cannot be accessed without reversing the process and using specially designed heavy machinery to move the containers back onto lorries to drive to the location where the contents will be removed from the containers while they remain on the lorry.

These containers are likely to never be available for collection at all as they belong to the removal company and they cannot be moved without special equipment and specifically designed lorries specially designed to carry them for delivery and unpacking at the final destination.

It is not practicable or feasible to unpack the containers at the removal company’s premises and re-pack the goods in some other vehicle for delivery elsewhere, even if the removal company would allow it – which I doubt.

The only sensible option is to pay the removal company their fee for delivering the goods to their end destination.

– I currently have no means whatever of paying £2000 plus. 

– I have had no means of ‘sorting through these containers’  until I am properly accommodated. 

– All of the household goods stored came out of what was effectively a two bedroomed property as the third bedroom in that property was so microscopic it merely contained one single bed and one small pinewood storage box doubling as a bedside table and absolutely no other items at all. 

As a quid pro quo to compensate for the cubic volume of that bed & box, I left behind  quite a significant volume of items when I was forced out of the house at 24 hours notice with no time to pack etc. Included were a very large, bulky double futon  style sofa and or double bed, at least one large & bulky armchair and sundry other items which escape me at present. 

This meant that the third and very small bedroom contents of the house I vacated could be ignored as being irrelevant. It therefore follows that with just the contents of a very small kitchen, two not very big bedrooms and one lounge in my previous house, that the contents of those rooms could, should and would fit into a two bedroomed property with a kitchen & lounge.

Whether it might be desirable or not for me to root through everything I own and chuck some of my possessions out is entirely a matter for me, without the necessity of council officials  interfering and becoming involved in micro-managing my personal domestic life on my behalf. That is quite ridiculous.

It is therefore the case that the Council official is entirely misinformed on this point she raises.

– The Council  led me to believe that I was eligible to be housed by the Council by virtue of priority housing need and that this included the storage of my household possessions by the Council. The Council housing officer and other council officials told me unequivocally on more than one occasion that this was the case and I was never, at any stage, warned that the Council were seeking to avoid their legal duty as proscribed by Parliament. There was also an absolute and clear statement by the housing official to me that the Council would bear the cost of household goods storage and she specifically told me to make a list of all my possessions with this in mind.

Her precise words were ‘the Council will pay for the removal and storage of your possessions, but only an amount which will be able to fit into a two bedroomed property, as that is all you will get. So you will have to get rid of some of your things as you have far too much and it will not all fit into a small two bedroomed flat’.

When I asked her for clarification of this as she, as far as I am aware, had never visited my house, and could not possible know anything at all about the contents, she repeated that I should make a list of everything I owned and intended to take to another two bedroomed property and forward it to herself for her approval and determination that, in her opinion, there were not too many items for a two bedroomed property. She made a categoric statement that she needed to approve my list of possessions and tell me exactly what I could and could not take.

I was unable to make a list of everything I owned and this request had the effect of exacerbating the state of stress I was already experiencing to produce a state of mental and physical paralysis which could only be dealt with by completely blotting out such mindlessly destructive bureaucratic nonsense and doing something more useful, while taking great care not to even think about such ludicrousness because if I did allow myself to think about it, it immediately had a very damaging effect on me.

– Having completely misled me (as I only now realise for the first time) as to my position in terms of being housed and the storage of my household goods and who would be paying for them, it is the case that nobody at the Council ever informed me at any stage of anything concerning the correct procedures or lawful rights etc that might be relevant, and should be taken into account by me in terms of whether I might or might not have to pay for my household effects, and whether the Council might seek to weasil out of accepting any legal liability for priority housing need by virtue of mis-applying previous case law surrounding other cases of Councils turning to the courts in seeking ways of carrying out Central Government instructions to turn away people in otherwise legitimate ‘priority housing need’ to leave them to fend for themselves with a blatant disregard of the obvious intentions of the Housing Act.

Specifically, for instance, that absolutely no explanation was given to me about the fact I might be refused housing by the Council on spurious legal grounds or that the Council would refuse to pay for the storage of household goods, having already expressly told me they they would, in fact pay for that storage, and that I was being told I was obviously in ‘priority housing need’ by virtue of having a child to look after.

With hindsight, I can now see it would be normal human decency for a council housing official to point out that although I was on the face of it guaranteed housing by virtue of priority need, there was a minefield of legal hurdles I knew nothing about, specifically conjured up by many Councils seeking to avoid housing people in manifestly obvious ‘priority housing need’ as defined by the Housing Act, because they had been told by Central Government to reduce housing costs by arbitrarily refusing to house various categories of people previously granted priority need council housing accommodation.

And that also, common human decency would dictate that council housing officials would advise people as to the true nature of what may happen in terms of paying for the removal and storage of household goods and not mislead them in the outrageous manner I was misled.

There was at no time any statement to me of what the law or council rules might have applied about what might or might not happen to domestic house contents in situations like this. In fact I was even further misled by many people I talked to who had experienced similar situations of priority housing need and subsequent re-housing by the Council, who told me all their storage and removal costs were paid for by the council, even including the costs of kenneling dogs or cats.

I was at some point also informed by the housing charity that the Council had a legal obligation to remove and store all domestic possessions, and that also included pets such as dogs.

This issue of kenneling dogs seemed to be confirmed when the Council at first produced a wide variety of excuses and difficulties to not provide any assistance whatever to kennel my large dog, but without ever making any clear statement of outright refusal to assist. And then subsequently, appearing to accept their liability to house my dog when the housing charity made vigorous representations to them.

The Council continued to fail to do anything about paying for the kenneling of the dog by claiming they required a vaccination certificate – although the dog was already placed in kennels by me and the kennels had already inspected a vaccination certificate to their satisfaction which was still valid for at least the next six months.

Even when the Council were given a copy of a current duplicate vaccination certificate they still claimed not to have seen a vaccination certificate (which they did not require anyway) as a spurious, purely imaginary, bureaucratic excuse not to pay for the kenneling.

When the housing charity advised me the Council did, in fact have a legal duty to keep safe all of my domestic possessions, and this included pets as indicated by the very large number of cases whereby Councils do take on this obligation to house pets without trying to avoid it, I never for one moment imagined the Council would become increasingly truculent and determined to refuse to accept any of their legal obligations as set out by statute.

– Furthermore I also have several previous money claims against the Council  which have not yet been resolved. These claims exceed by a large margin the amount that the Council have spent and are spending on the storage of my domestic goods.

– It is also the case that I am challenging the unlawful decision of  ‘intentional homelessness’ dreamed up by this Council in the courts and if it this matter is found in my favour the Council will be asked to both pay compensation and damages for their behaviour as well as the costs of storage.

– That it is a deliberately and immensely spiteful  and a breathtakingly monstrous decision of the Council that, after taking these domestic household effects and storing them for seven months, misleading me into believing they would store them until I was properly accommodated, to then wilfully and maliciously deprive me of all my Worldly domestic possessions by giving them away to a charity shop just a few days before I can move into settled accommodation is a gross abuse of their power and obviously malicious and must therefore be actionable in law under the circumstances. 

– It would also appear to me to be an obvious abuse of the Human Rights Act in terms of both proportionality and the concept of a respect for a right to unfettered domestic and family life which the Council seem to be going out of their way to unnecessarily destroy, which has been amply demonstrated in every aspect of my housing application to the Council.

This final declaration by the Council Housing Department in the shape of this housing official, for it is her that makes these decisions and issues these diktats, really takes the biscuit for it’s wicked spite and deliberately constructed awkwardness designed to do nothing but obstruct, obfusticate and deliberately leave me entirely destitute by the brazen wickedness of stealing all my possessions; as well as thwart my moving into the unfurnished accommodation which has been arranged.

This will, of course, ensure I will become street homeless and my son will be obliged to move into Council care at a vast cost to the State, which this spiteful, braindead woman will have deliberately engineered with a pious whine that she was ’just doing her job’ and just obeying the rules’ etc etc.

Idiots like this deserve to be shot, at least metaphorically so, for the immense harm they do to society as this horrible and nasty person will be doing to me and my son – destroying his family life in it’s entirety and forcing lifelong disadvantages upon him which will colour his whole existence and dog him for his entire life.

What a thoroughly miserable, nasty person this Council Housing official is.

LETTER FROM THE COUNCIL HOUSING OFFICIAL TO OTHER PARTY

Dear Mr…….

 
I confirm that the Council is not prepared to further fund storage or removals for Mr…….
 
We have so far paid a lot of public money to store Mr …..’s belongings and he has made no attempt to arrange to pay this money back or to sort through the containers and dispose of what he will not be able to take to a 2 bed property. 
 
To date, the Council has not acted on the Section 41 notice served on Mr …… stating that his goods would vest in the interest of the local authority on August 1st as the outcome of the review had not been determined.  This authority can no longer justify paying £63 per week storage for Mr…………’s belongings. 
 
Given that the Council is not prepared to pay any more money to fund Mr…………., the options as I see them are:
• Mr …….. pays for himself
• Social Services pay
• The housing charity pays
• Combination of the 3 options above
 
I will confirm with the removal company tomorrow when they can make the containers available for collection and I will let you know.  If they have not been collected or payment taken over by that date, they will be disposed of the next day.  I think you will agree that the council has been very patient in this case and allowed far more time for storage than the statutory requirement at a significant cost to the public purse.
 
Regards
 
A miserably, mean minded and destructive Council Housing official

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HOW ESTATE AGENTS HAVE POISONED THE PROPERTY RENTAL MARKET

Some of my correspondence   with the local council showing how impossible it is obtaining privately rented accommodation when you have to jump through all the bureaucratic hoops created by estate agents and the local Council and the ludicrously rotten benefits system.

28th September 2011 –  1500 hrs

Dear Social Services,

Thank you for your email sent at 1036 hrs  this morning in which you tell me you can pay the estate agent fees and first month’s rent and deposit and act as guarantor.

The estate agent is ……

The telephone number is … and the person dealing with this is….. Her email is ……

The property is at …..

I have just spoken to the agent a moment ago and informed her of the fact you will be organising the  financing of this rental.

The second I mentioned that this was being paid for by you she immediately said the landlord ‘would have to know’ and it was unlikely he would accept me as a tenant because the funding would not be coming directly from me. She ignored my explanation that you would be acting as guarantor as though this would be meaningless when in fact it would be a legal guarantee the rent would be paid.

She focussed on the fact the only arrangement that would be workable would be six months rent in advance. She said that without that it would not be possible to proceed.

You couldn’t get a clearer indication that this whole poisonous difficulty of benefit claimants and other less ‘credit worthy’ individuals being unable to rent accommodation has been brought into being by the way estate agents choose to function.

She was immediately ‘obstructive’ in our conversation and quite determined to strip out of it any sensible and positive discussion and she made it clear to me her thinking was to disregard me as a prospective tenant and advise the landlord accordingly, quite regardless of the security of the rent being paid and guaranteed.

Estate agents actively encourage landlords to ‘fear’ benefit claimants etc, and they also insist on using rapacious ‘referencing’ agencies that charge extortionate fees to produce referencing reports which are based on highly dubious financial credit referencing agencies like Experian and barely worth the paper they are written on and certainly are no real indication of likely tenant reliability.

The simple reason for this is that it benefits the estate agents. Even an individual with a blameless record finds the system completely obnoxious and basically just a rip off as I have found when I have spoken to many other tenants affected by this.

I also need to let you know that the fierce ‘standardisation’ of rental levels set by estate agents means that  essentially all two bedroomed properties are virtually the same rental levels starting at £795. I have accepted the fact that I will have to fund the shortfall between the housing benefit level set by the government and what I actually have to pay.

I know I am able to do this because I am currently paying £117 monthly for storage of household goods and also setting aside £100 monthly as a temporary  ISA savings despite a a huge shortfall in the income I should be receiving under the benefits system. In addition to this I am not being paid any child tax credits at all which would amount to about £40 per week (£160 monthly) , and there are certain deductions also taken from my pension credit which are incorrect and should not only stop when the issue is sorted out, but substantial sums should, presumably, be legally refundable.

A simple understanding of what I am talking about is that you might say I am being well and truly ‘ripped off’ by not being correctly treated by the benefits system which can behave very erratically. I have not previously been in a position to do anything about sorting  all this out until now.

The other relevant facts concerning the property I am trying to rent are that the rent is £850 per month and if I was paying hard cash out of my own pocket with six months up front I know it would come down to £800 per month. With this in mind it might be worth your while telling the agent the rent will be only £800 per month in return for paying the rent six months in advance, if you so choose.

The deposit is also stated as being six weeks worth of the rental figure instead of the one month that used to be the norm. All the other estate agents I have spoken to have also upped the deposit levels to six weeks too.

The bottom line about all this is that the estate agents are in control and they have both you and all prospective tenants over a barrel. It is the estate agents who also influence and ultimately control  the landlords too into believing the correct way to go about renting their property is in the manner the estate agents dictate.

Again, all this means that, as the primary objective is for my son and me to get into acceptable accommodation, the speediest and  most cost effective way of doing this is to simply work within this wickedly rapacious estate agents lettings system  and be forced to pay the six months rent in advance.

This is because the only way of getting around the joke of ‘referencing’ which,  if it finds even the slightest glitch in a credit record etc or lack of employment even if pensions or benefits are being paid, will result in outright rejection of a tenant.

By paying the whole of the six months length of the rental contract in advance it cuts the legs completely off the referencing issue as the landlord’s receipt of rental payments  can no longer  exist as a ‘risk’. It does also offer both the logic and bargaining tool for reducing the rent down to at least £800 per month on the basis that the landlord is effectively receiving more rent than the agreed figure if it is all paid six months in advance. A landlord would find it difficult to refuse reducing the rent in this manner if it was paid in advance.

I had to struggle somewhat with the estate agent  and be very persistent that this deal could still go ahead as really, she seemed to be automatically just dismissing me out of hand because I didn’t ‘tick all the standard boxes’ the estate agents like. These people are very blinkered and have completely one track minds as they are really just jumped up and mobile versions of call centre robots – with the same total lack of individual initiative.

I have actually done an enormous amount of research – speaking to many, many estate agents and other tenants too. I have looked at hundreds of properties all over the South of England.

It is clear from all this that there is no immediate way out of the vice like grip the estate agents hold over the entire market, making it almost impossible for anyone on benefits to be accepted for any normal rented property without paying the rent up front. There is effectively no possibility of a benefits claimant on housing benefit commencing any brand new rental. Which only throws  any benefit claimant straight  back into social housing as the only possible means of finding any accommodation at all.

Every other conversation I have had with estate agents has arrived at this same conclusion that without paying the rent up front, it will be impossible to enter into any rental agreement.

The estate agent  asked me to request that you speak to her or email her  about this to see if any progress might be made and she put unreasonable pressure on  all this by telling me she will be immediately proceeding with other tenants meanwhile.

A simple display of the venality of these predatory people.

Yours Sincerely,

Single Dad

SOCIAL SERVICES BEING UNHELPFUL – DETERMINED TO TURN ME AND SON OUT ONTO STREET

Dear Social Services,

I looked at about ten two bedroomed properties today via estate agents in town. I found two that  might  be suitable for me to rent and were offered to me.

Both want me to pay the usual £250 fee for the privilege of being ‘referenced’ as well as some weasil agents fee of about a hundred pounds. I will not pass that test as I was evicted from my house with mortgage arrears and I have been unable to pay utility bills yet as communications with creditors has not been possible. I will also fail that referencing process because I have no previous landlord – ever – and I am not currently employed.

The web site of one agent specifically states ‘no housing benefit’ claimants on every property it is renting.

If social services are prepared to genuinely assist me in obtaining privately rented accommodation I need to be  able to actually be in a position to instantly provide payment of a ‘holding deposit’ which is the amount of the referencing fee. I also need to be able to offer the estate agent the bargaining chip of six months rent (please see my previous email) in advance to compensate for their imaginary perceived problems with ‘housing benefit’.

This is the only way I might be able to pursue the rental of either of these properties, (or any other property anywhere)  and I have to get on with it immediately on Wednesday September 28 otherwise another prospective tenant will take the property instead.

I have not yet told either of the agents I am in receipt of ‘benefits’ yet and one agent has chosen me as a preferred potential tenant over another tenant wanting the same property. The other tenant competing for this property will replace me instantly if I am not able to conclude a successful negotiation immediately with the cash clout needed.

All the other estate agents that I have explained my circumstances of being on benefits to, have not even bothered to have any further dealings with me, as they clearly are uninterested in tenants on benefits.

If it is not possible for me to be assisted to bypass this obscene renting system which outlaws housing benefit recipients etc, then it is clear searching through estate agents is pointless and waiting to see the rare and random privately advertised property might mean spending years before discovering a rentable property.

Effectively, this means it is impossible for me to obtain privately rented accommodation anywhere.

If it is not possible to meaningfully assist me in obtaining one of the above rentals, or any other similar rental, then the only possible route to me and my son finding accommodation is through social housing – which the Council have (wrongfully in my opinion) refused to apply, despite the very clear intentions of housing law.

I still intend to bring this issue before the County Court and take it to whatever higher court is required if necessary but this will take a very long time.

The only other alternative would appear to be that I must currently expect to be street homeless with my son who must then be taken into care at a greater cost than simple accommodation would cost.

I would respectfully point out there is absolutely nothing whatever I can do to alter the facts as I have outlined them in my emails to you. I am perfectly able to search and find suitable accommodation – which I have done.

But if it is not possible to bypass the outlandish barriers which have been erected to prevent disadvantaged tenants from renting property, I cannot see how this issue can be solved, except by means of social housing. I would be quite happy to rent privately if I was able to, but it is no good anyone constantly telling me to do so if it has been made impossible by the parasites who have brought this ludicrous system of renting into being.

Meanwhile, the owner of the B&B my son and I am is expecting me to leave on Wednesday September 28th, and I have no other accommodation for my son and I to go to.

I would be grateful if you would email me and or telephone me to inform me of what you expect me to do in the circumstances.

I cannot telephone you as I have no money at present to buy further credit in order to use my mobile phone.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours Sincerely,

Single Dad

JUST SURVIVING AS A SEMI-VAGRANT IS A FULL TIME JOB !

September 18th 2011

It is Sunday today, so I can let the boy stay asleep as long as he wants to –  or at least up until midday as he wants to meet a friend at the skate park in the next town seven miles away at one p.m. because there is what he calls a Skateboard ‘Jam’ going on there.

Jam ? Jam ? I thought jam was something you spread on bread. I suppose it is another ‘import’ from American culture.

As we both went to sleep diabolically late – about 3 a.m. – I slept late too. I woke up first at 8 a.m. because of noisy breakfast goings on in the next room.

I was wide awake and slightly cold despite having gone to bed fully clothed. The thin, cheap and nastily shoddy duvet the skinflint B&B owner supplies is useless at keeping  me warm, and it’s only early autumn, not even winter yet !

The room is a bit like an underground prison cell too; small, poky and cold, dark, dank and airless and with only a small, narrow window high up under the ceiling of the room which hardly lets in any light. It is really a ghastly place to live.

My thirteen year year old son and I have been living here three months now, forced to live almost like vagrants thanks to the vindictive nastiness of the benefits system which has systematically persecuted us ever since I became a lone father over ten years ago, bringing up my son entirely by myself.

STRESSED BY HOPELESSLY UNRELIABLE INTERNET & PHONE SERVICE

It has probably  taken me all this past month of August  just to deal with the huge amount of stress these unpleasant social workers and council people are inflicting on my son and me. That’s why I haven’t posted anything here on this blog since social services tried to fling my son and I out onto the streets at just a few hours notice at the end of July. My mind has been  basically shattered !

Yesterday, August 31st, I went for a walk in the woods nearby and was puzzled why I seemed so incredibly exhausted. I had spent the whole day trapped in the ghastly bed and breakfast accommodation social services had condemned us to stay in. As I had had loads of sleep the previous night I soon realised the exhaustion was entirely generated by the mental fatigue caused by the extreme, excruciating stress I am experiencing most of the time.

I had been trying to make ‘phone calls and use the internet to send emails to sort out what, exactly, was going to happen the next day. I had been told the bed and breakfast place was no longer going to be paid for by social services and I was being threatened once again with being out on the streets with my young son –  roofless and rootless; all thanks to the thieving banks who stole my home from me.

It was a terrible day. I had to find out from social services what they were planning. Although they have a legal duty to house my homeless child, they had already proved they had no respect for the law when they attempted to fling us both out onto the streets a month ago. It now seemed they were planning to try and get away with playing the same dirty trick again.

MY CHILD AND ME THROWN HOMELESS ONTO STREETS BY SOCIAL SERVICES

email to my MP dated August 1st 2011

My thirteen year old son and I have been deliberately made homeless and thrown out onto the streets today by Social Services.  There was no warning whatever. Both of us will be sleeping in a shop doorway or similar tonight or certainly by tomorrow night.

My local Council illegally  & wrongly described me as ‘intentionally homeless’ after I was evicted from my home in March this year by a vicious sub-prime mortgage lender (Lehmans Bros subsidiary SPML).

This meant the Council could deny they had any legal obligations under law to re-house my son & I. They had announced about three years ago they intended to do this and describe me as ‘intentionally homeless’ . It seemed obvious to me the Council official concerned was being deliberately spiteful for some unknown reason.

Frankly, they seemed to me to be sadists who had an opportunity to ‘get at’ a professional ‘middle class’ person and kick the hell out of him by the inappropriate exercise of the power they had over me. There is simply no other way of putting it. They seemed to be making that very clear to me – although of course they will deny that.

Without any meaningful warning I was therefore consequently thrown out of the B&B the Council had originally put me in immediately after I had been evicted .

THE VINDICTIVE STATE WE LIVE IN TODAY HERE IN ORWELLIAN BRITAIN

As malevolent cameras follow you everywhere you go about your lawful business Britain as a ‘free’ country is fast becoming a delusion as a creeping police State encroaches on everyday life with arbitrary arrests and court summonses for trumped up charges of trivia

 

Late last night the savagery of Britain’s Orwellian, evil, creeping Police State added to all the other miseries our nasty, invasive, busy-body army of Government employed bureaucratic parasites have inflicted on me in recent times.

I was suddenly, quite out of the blue, with absolutely no warning whatever

DOUGHNUTS AGAIN !

Yup, I spelt them right this time !

I suddenly twigged, once I had got away from my computer after writing the previous story about the poisonous ASDA DOUGHNUTS that have given me the severe squits for a few days, what actually was the cause of that uncomfortable feeling  I had something was wrong about what I had written.

It was that bloody American spell checker telling me the way to spell DOUGHNUTS was Donuts, or perhaps even Dohnuts – as in Doh, a popular word Americans now seem to communicate a lot of what they have to say to each other with, having taken lessons in how to speak eloquently from ubiquitous dumb cartoon character Homer Simpson.

Sod  off you useless American spell checkers. You are a total pain in the backside !

Anyway, after starting going on about those awful  ASDA DOUGHNUTS which had made me so ill, I was too tired to make another observation about them I had wanted to make because it was the middle of the night; about 3 a.m. or something. So, here is the rest of what  I planned to say about a very unpleasant doughnut experience. A typical hazard of our Modern Times, where Big, Blundering, Bossy Business constantly finds new ways to cut corners and make even more profit by degrading the quality of every product we buy from them !