Saturday, July 16, 2011

Has A4E raised a fourth 'sanction doubt' against Declan?

Action for Employment (A4E) is a private company founded and chaired by Emma Harrison CBE that controls 25% of the long-term unemployment budget for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The first time Declan's highly abusive A4E Advisor Lola Olowu-Worth raised a sanction doubt against him, our housing benefit was suspended without warning or explanation (see blog of 8 June DWP instructed Haringey Council to stop paying our rent). On that occasion it was because Declan would not agree to be trained as a warehouse operative; yesterday Olowu-Worth cancelled a “progress review” without notification, but had previously told him that if he failed to turn up to an unagreed telesales interview that she had brazenly gone ahead and re-arranged for him last week that she would raise a fourth sanction doubt against him. So this is Declan's e-letter this afternoon to our MP, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone (the letter mentioned to the Prime Minister is archived here):

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As I keep mentioning, we lost our internet connection on 4 July and have no idea when or if we will get it back (see blog of 23 May Are we back to being 'squeezed' in public libraries?). Our live-in landlady, activist Belinda McKenzie, has two accounts with different providers and three access points. Our access point “Guest” (situated in one of the rooms below us) is not responding to our laptops and when I occasionally get connected on “moj” (situated in the basement), I am disconnected pretty quickly. Two weeks ago we even had to ask Belinda to let us use her computer to send an email! I have also mentioned that MI5 whistleblower David Shayler lived for a couple of years in one of the rooms below us, until 2007 more or less. According to the BBC, Shayler “caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair”. By around 2007, he had been successfully neutralised: he changed his name to Delores Kane, declared himself to be Jesus, and became a squatter.

This week we also learnt by private email from a Nobel laureate that select emails of ours are still being delivered to spam boxes (see blog of 20 June 2010 Interception of communications: Our MP responds). Belinda is a human rights activist who is involved in many causes, including Stop the War Coalition, Iranian solidarity, Hollie Demands Justice, and abuse in the Church. I keep joking that I should ask Belinda for some tips on how to avoid the interest of the secretive National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) because, according to a recent Guardian article Peace campaigner, 85, classified by police as 'domestic extremist', it doesn’t take much to grab their attention! Here is a YouTube video of Belinda, in which she takes a shot at the Queen (5:20):

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

The High Court dismisses Declan's complaint for maladministration

In Monday’s blog A4E raises a third 'sanction doubt' against Declan, I mentioned that Declan had made a complaint against the Administrative Court Office of the High Court for their handling of his case against our jobcentre, Highgate Jobcentre Plus (see blog of 14 April Declan's Notice of Renewal of claim for permission to apply for Judicial Review). Well, little did we know that the Court Manager, David Brupbacher, would kick the dismissal of the complaint up to Her Majesty’s Courts Service (HMCS) Complaint Handling and Enquiries Team, leaving only the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to investigate:

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It has been a rough couple of days. As I also showed in Monday’s blog, we have lost the internet connection in our flat; so even if we want to send an email, one of us has to run off to the local internet cafe or a library. Our live-in landlady Belinda McKenzie has two accounts with different providers and three access points. Our access point “Guest” (situated in one of the rooms below us) is not responding to our laptops and neither is “moj”, which I can usually use in an emergency. This evening we were so desperate that Declan had to ask Belinda to let us use her computer to send an email to our MP, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone!

Monday, July 04, 2011

A4E raises a third 'sanction doubt' against Declan

Action for Employment (A4E) is a private company that has received £300 million of Government training contracts and controls 25% of the long-term unemployment budget for the Department for Work and Pensions (see the video in the previous blog A4E raises a second 'sanction doubt' against Declan). Our one-year lease is up for renewal in three weeks time and it would appear that the DWP have the A4E office we were allocated some time ago under particularly strong pressure to make it as easy as possible for our jobcentre to terminate our benefits. This includes making false statements against Declan, to such an extent that last Friday he was forced to report his highly abusive A4E Advisor Lola Olowu-Worth to the police:

My written statement for PC EK7134 of Kentish Town Police Station:

"I wish to report my Camden A4E Advisor Lola Olowu-Worth for engaging in conduct which I believe to be criminal, involving racial discrimination. This afternoon Ms Olowu-Worth has written of her intention to raise a third sanction doubt against me with my jobcentre, Highgate Jobcentre Plus, based on a document she has drawn up which, among other things, falsely reports my views. When I informed Ms Olowu-Worth that she is engaging in what I believe to be criminal conduct by falsely reporting my views (like I was an Irish Mick), she replied: 'Good luck with that!' I request that this matter be investigated by the Metropolitan Police and that I be afforded the opportunity to adduce into evidence my e-letter this evening to my MP, Ms Lynne Featherstone."

Declan Heavey 1/7/2011 5.30pm

According to PC EK7134, the only racial abuse he heard was "you describing yourself as an Irish Mick", that there had been no crime, and that there would be no report.


And this is Declan's email this afternoon to our MP, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone:

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The fact of the matter is that we are surviving here week by week. If Declan wasn't prepared to make complaints and lodge documents in the courts, as I keep registering in this blog, we would have been back to the street a long time ago. See here, for example, his latest complaint against the Administrative Court Office of the High Court for their handling of his case against our jobcentre, Highgate Jobcentre Plus; and here for his latest recording with the Tribunals Service of the payment of our rent by Haringey Council. Declan also has Highgate Jobcentre Plus in the Central London County Court, and last Friday registered with that court a request for judgment.

To top it all, we lost our internet connection again today and have no idea when or if we will get it back (see blog of 23 May Are we back to being 'squeezed' in public libraries?). As this graphic shows (see tabs at the bottom), when we lost our internet connection in the flat, I was studying how to draft a Letter of Inquiry to funders of non-profit organisations to obtain an operating support grant (we are seeking £21,000, which will keep us and Network for Church Monitoring going for at least a year):

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