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):
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):
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