Church and State blog: July 2014

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Now Declan has to fight for paper bills, if he wants any

Part 1: Now it's Newham Council, Thames Water, British Gas and British Telecom making our case for help and support from the Mayor of London's Greater London Authority

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EDF Energy letter and copy bill.pdf

Mayor of London's Housing First Programme - Pre-Action Letter

Part 1: The danger of this tenancy is finally revealed

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Single Homeless Project (SHP): Information Commissioner asks the charity to comply with Declan's Subject Access Request on or before 6 August 2014

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Monday, July 21, 2014

Single Homeless Project (SHP): Our chairman refutes that Declan and I demonstrate symptoms of mental ill health through our website and this blog

Part 1: The danger of this tenancy is finally revealed

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The danger of this tenancy is finally revealed

Declan and I received a support plan from the Single Homeless Project (SHP) this morning. "I feel that they both demonstrate symptoms of mental ill health," writes someone who has not even met us. Moreover, according to our tenancy agreement, our support provider is the Family Mosaic Housing Association, not the SHP!

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Declan's complaint to the UN can be found in my blog of 6 May, "Threat to life: updated complaint to the United Nations" (paragraphs 46-52 outline why the Vatican and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church should be monitored), and his most recent email to Mayor of London Boris Johnson was posted in my blog of 10 July, "Newham Council: Mayor of London lends his weight" (nothing in that or any other email regarding our impression that we should have received a furnished flat). The SHP raises the question for us, just how safe are we now in accommodation we secured two months ago through the No Second Night Out and Housing First programmes that the Mayor of London funds.

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On 14 March 2013 we were evicted from our previous flat because according to our then live-in landlady's ex-husband, Dr Nigel McKenzie, a consultant psychiatrist in Highgate Mental Health Centre, our flat was needed for somebody with a mental illness. As Declan states in paragraph 8 of his complaint to the UN, MI5 whistleblower David Shayler also lived with human rights activist Belinda McKenzie in the same activist 'safe' house for a couple of years until 2007. It is indeed unfortunate Shayler then declared that he was the Messiah, became a squatter, and was subsequently ridiculed in the press for changing his name to Delores Kane. A New Statesman article dated 11 September 2006 featuring Shayler and Belinda gives no indication that Shayler believed he was the Messiah at that time; whilst a Daily Mail interview with Shayler explicitly shows he believed himself to be Jesus by June 2007.

The Esquire article below* is mentioned in a Guardian article dated 27 March 2012. It is an eye-opener, highlighting the monitoring and surveillance that Shayler had to live with back in 2000, and the contradictory briefings and slanders that were coming out of the British establishment and the media. The author, Dr Eamonn O'Neill, is a lecturer in journalism at Strathclyde University.

*On 2 May 2013, Issuu removed this pdf from my Issuu account following a copyright complaint by Hearst Communications. I had uploaded the article to my Issuu account in December 2012. In March 2013, when last I checked, the article had been viewed more than 15,000 times. It can be viewed here.

BBC PANORAMA: The David Shayler Affair (August 1998)

According to BBC Panorama, Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair". In 2002, he was jailed for seven weeks for breaking the Official Secrets Act.

Discharge Summary: Declan's complaint to the manager of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), Charing Cross Hospital, falls on deaf ears

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Haringey Council's refusal of temporary accommodation referred to in the complaint above was subsequently rendered lawful by the High Court on the grounds that, according to the Council, their refusal was not formal:

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Thames Water: You will trust us or lose your water supply

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Declan's battle with British Gas Executive Office for billing rages on. Next: Energy Ombudsman

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Newham Council: 2nd High Court pre-action letter, this time in relation to Housing Benefit - the 1st High Court pre-action letter was in relation to Council Tax (not yet resolved)

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First pre-action letter (Council Tax)

Declan's battle with British Gas Executive Office for billing rages on. Next: Energy Ombudsman

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Declan forced to battle Thames Water for two meter readings that he can witness

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Newham Council: Mayor of London lends his weight

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Tuesday, July 08, 2014

City of London Police: It's you and your wife's word against ours? Even more concerning

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Monday, July 07, 2014

Newham Council: What does it take to get a new Council Tax bill from them?

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Saturday, July 05, 2014

I pay British Telecom more than £30 a month for home broadband and this is the internet connection I get

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Friday, July 04, 2014

Single Homeless Project: Information Commissioner provides Declan with a case reference number

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By recorded delivery on 19 March 2014:

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Thursday, July 03, 2014

Newham Council: Declan forced to write to the Minister for Local Government for new Council Tax bill

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Church and State

MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY
DAY 406 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A SECTION 21 NOTICE

(SEE PARA. 3 BELOW)

1. Our 308 Honorary Associates include 20 Nobel Prize laureates. Declan and I are engaged in a project that deals with the publication of issues significant to social policy in a number of key areas, e.g., climate change, population, futurism, atheism, and free speech. Established as Network for Church Monitoring, a non-profit company limited by guarantee, our main publication, found at the website, Church and State, calls attention to subjects, not the least which have been critical of the interaction between religious and secular institutions. We have been the target of numerous threats and actions, e.g., the former resulting in threats to Declan's life, and the latter, which have led to vandalism. The various incidents are on record with the police and other official agencies.

2. There are no less than 63 Nobel Prize laureates on the Church and State website from 20 Honorary Associates, eight articles, nine book excerpts and 33 petition signatories. (For example, one Nobel laureate signed our Nobel petition in support of human embryonic stem cell research and gave us permission to excerpt from one of his books.) Our list of associates also includes 18 US National Medal laureates, and six Turing Award laureates (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science). We have published one article and excerpted from the books of seven members of the British House of Lords. And there are 31 knighted professors on the site from 13 Honorary Associates, one book excerpt and 21 petition signatories. These figures are despite the never-ending assault on our email (this link reveals the targeting of our emails to, among others, a close colleague in Washington, DC as well as space advocates and Nobel laureates).

3. This is Day 406 for us living under the threat to life of a 'no fault' eviction by Peabody Trust.[1] We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) property. Peabody's appalling new terms of tenancy have forced us into an unstable weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to Declan's life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. Declan accumulated quite a history with the Housing Ombudsman Service before he received the Ombudsman's decision not to investigate a referral from Lyn Brown MP on jurisdictional grounds. The Ombudsman was asked to consider whether or not our tenancy has been renewed like for like; and whether, if not, it should be in light of the landlord having accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement. The Equality and Human Rights Commission will not accept a referral of discrimination from Ms Brown, the Commission's helpline (EASS) having grossly distorted the complaint against Peabody. We no longer have pro se access to the courts (see next paragraph).

4. This eviction matter came before District Judge Ruth Fine at the Central London County Court on 30 June 2020, when both counsel for St Mungo's (the charity in effective control of our tenancy) and Declan presented their positions. Declan lost the case and was ordered to pay £1,850 in costs. A publishing colleague in America cleared these costs within 24 hours of my blog post about this hearing for strike out on a related issue that was the essence of the claim, i.e., that St Mungo's would take a phone call to confirm that we are clients of the Mayor of London's RSI programme. Within a week of the hearing, St Mungo's had agreed to take this phone call for us both, the Court having ruled that they were not obliged to do so despite our circumstances. This time we escaped bankruptcy (counsel for St Mungo's asked for £3,407.50 in costs), but consider that to seek pro se access to justice in the courts has become far too dangerous for us. Declan currently has before the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman the decision of the Information Commissioner that allows St Mungo's to continue processing coercive support plans without our knowledge or consent and that also poses a threat to his life.

5. When it comes to traffic, we have had 10.7 million hits in the past three years on Facebook; however, I left the platform on 13 March 2021 for one year rather than risk being banned for life. It is indisputable that with any sort of level playing field Church and State would have far exceeded 2.5 million hits last year. In addition to a large variety of blocks without explanation, Facebook had so severely restricted our Page's distribution by October 2020 that it was almost as good as an unpublished page.[2] Currently, we are up to their 85th block since 1 December 2015, and as usual without an explanation. This block records as one half of their 3rd double block in the first five weeks of this year that lasted 60 days. Our traffic has also been curtailed by over 2.5K blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016, including 29 full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since 17 May 2019 that have lasted for as long as 54 hours at a time.[3] About 70% of our hits are from Americans.

"This is precisely the hard hitting kind of response needed to clarify the unfair way Facebook is treating your highly reputable site." Don Collins, Founder, International Services Assistance Fund, Washington DC

Last updated: 26/06/21

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[1] Once a fixed term has elapsed, the landlord has the option to seek eviction even if the tenant has upheld their obligations in full (though of course the landlord must still apply for and obtain a county court order).

[2] 17/10/20: We have permission to publish this ISAF letter of 30 September to Facebook COO Sheryl Samberg. Facebook has so severely restricted our Page's distribution since 4 September that it's almost as good as an unpublished page

[3] Since October 2019, we have been defining a full DDoS attack as having such a high volume of up to 4-minute blocks on access to Church and State that we don't bother recording them all.

Church and State blog

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Now Declan has to fight for paper bills, if he wants any

Mayor of London's Housing First Programme - Pre-Action Letter

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Single Homeless Project (SHP): Information Commissioner asks the charity to comply with Declan's Subject Access Request on or before 6 August 2014

Monday, July 21, 2014

Single Homeless Project (SHP): Our chairman refutes that Declan and I demonstrate symptoms of mental ill health through our website and this blog

The danger of this tenancy is finally revealed

Discharge Summary: Declan's complaint to the manager of the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), Charing Cross Hospital, falls on deaf ears

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Thames Water: You will trust us or lose your water supply

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Newham Council: 2nd High Court pre-action letter, this time in relation to Housing Benefit - the 1st High Court pre-action letter was in relation to Council Tax (not yet resolved)

Declan's battle with British Gas Executive Office for billing rages on. Next: Energy Ombudsman

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Declan forced to battle Thames Water for two meter readings that he can witness

Newham Council: Mayor of London lends his weight

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

City of London Police: It's you and your wife's word against ours? Even more concerning

Monday, July 07, 2014

Newham Council: What does it take to get a new Council Tax bill from them?

Saturday, July 05, 2014

I pay British Telecom more than £30 a month for home broadband and this is the internet connection I get

Friday, July 04, 2014

Single Homeless Project: Information Commissioner provides Declan with a case reference number

Thursday, July 03, 2014

Newham Council: Declan forced to write to the Minister for Local Government for new Council Tax bill

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