Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Facebook dig up out of context a sarcastic remark that I must have posted years ago and ban me across board until 3 August (WITH UPDATE 2/8/2018)


I have appealed Facebook's decision this morning to block me from posting on the website until 3 August. They have dug up a remark I must have posted years ago and taken it completely out of context. It is clearly a sarcastic remark, and not hate speech.



Here's pretty much the same remark in context:



http://churchandstate.org.uk/category/authors/matthias-kuntzel/

Re: Facebook

Paragraph 40 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

40. The Applicant's wife has encountered numerous problems with Facebook. In August 2011, then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone wrote to Facebook on the Applicant's behalf, asking that they explain why she had been barred (see Annex 19, p. 47). The bar was subsequently lifted; however, since December 2015, Facebook has blocked her from posting to groups 37 times, and for up to 12 days at a time (see Annex 22, p. 50). In December 2015, Shadow Home Office Minister Lyn Brown made an enquiry on the Applicant's behalf to Facebook UK Managing Director Steve Hatch asking if he could offer an explanation as to the terms and conditions the Applicant's wife was alleged to have broken twice previously (see Annex 20, p. 48). To the best of the Applicant's knowledge, Mr. Hatch did not respond to this letter. The Applicant's wife only ever posts to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that she is well familiar with, and she only ever posts articles that she has already published on the Church and State website. This concerted campaign against the Church and State website escalated in November 2017 after the site topped more than 3 million hits over the previous eleven months [emphasis added]. In March 2018, the Applicant's wife was blocked from posting to groups four times (for 29 out of 31 days), and all without explanation. The following is taken from her complaint to Facebook dated 28 January 2018 (see Annex 21, p. 49):

"Seldom has Facebook made it clear why I am being blocked. Today's block records as the 30th time Facebook has blocked me from posting to groups since 1 December 2015. The only explanation given at the time of one of these blocks has been "spam" (received today); and Facebook has only responded to four of my previous 29 appeals, citing "technical problems" in each instance. Nonetheless, I have been blocked from posting to groups a total of 43 days (and counting) in the last three months alone."

UPDATE 3 August (9.20am): Last Wednesday I received a reply from Facebook to my appeal. They wrote: "We're sorry we got this wrong. We've reviewed your post again and it does follow our Community Standards. We appreciate you taking the time to request a review. Your feedback helps us do better." Really? Even today the block is still in place (the screenshot below was taken this morning). On Wednesday I wrote back to them: "Yesterday I was blocked from posting on Facebook until 3 August. Today you say your block has been lifted, but this is not the case. I still cannot post on Facebook." Also on Wednesday, Declan received an apology from Royal Mail for the recent delivery of our renewed two-year tenancy agreement through another tenant's bathroom window; see my blog post of 17 July, Royal Mail: Once again Declan complains to the CEO of Royal Mail about mail not being delivered through our letter box (WITH UPDATE 1/8/2018).




Facebook blocks

2015
1st 1-4 December 2015 (4 days)
2nd 5-7 December 2015 (3 days)
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2016
3rd 6-9 January 2016 (4 days)
4th 12-15 January 2016 (4 days)
5th 20-22 January 2016 (3 days)
6th 13-16 February 2016 (4 days)
7th 23-26 March 2016 (4 days)
8th 20-23 May 2016 (4 days)
9th 25-30 May 2016 (6 days)
10th 1-3 July 2016 (3 days)
11th 7-8 September 2016 (2 days)
12th 21-22 September 2016 (3 days)
13th 27-28 September 2016 (2 days)
14th 29 September - 3 October 2016 (5 days)
15th 4-5 October 2016 (2 days)
16th 18-23 October 2016 (6 days)
17th 9-14 December 2016 (6 days)
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2017
18th 4-6 January 2017 (3 days)
19th 20-23 January 2017 (4 days)
20th 17 May 2017 (1 day)
21st 19 June 2017 (1 day)
22nd 19-21 August 2017 (3 days)
23rd 19 September 2017 (1 day)
24th 28 October - 8 November 2017 (12 days)
25th 23-30 November 2017 (8 days)
26th 7-8 December 2017 (2 days)
27th 10-17 December 2017 (8 days)
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2018
28th 28 December 2017 - 4 January 2018 (8 days)
29th 16-23 January 2018 (8 days)
30th 28 January - 4 February 2018 (8 days)
31st 12-19 February 2018 (8 days)
32nd 26 February - 5 March 2018 (8 days)
33rd 7-14 March 2018 (8 days)
34th 16-23 March 2018 (8 days)
35th 24 March - 1 April 2018 (9 days)
36th 4-11 April 2018 (8 days)
37th 14-21 April 2018 (8 days)
38th 2-5 June 2018 (4 days)
39th 13-14 June 2018 (2 days)
40th 17-24 June 2018 (8 days)
41st 10-17 July 2018 (8 days)
42nd 21-28 July 2018 (8 days)
43rd 31 July - 3 August 2018 (4 days) (ongoing)

January 2018: 16 days
February 2018: 15 days
March 2018: 29 days
April 2018: 17 days
May 2018: No blocks in May
June 2018: 14 days
July 2018: 17 days
August 2018: 3 days (until 3 August)



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at 10:52 pm

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Facebook: Has Facebook now stopped me from scheduling posts? (WITH UPDATE - DAY 2 25/7/2018)

This is precisely the hard hitting kind of response needed to clarify the unfair way Facebook is treating your highly reputable site.
-Donald A. Collins, President of ISAF, an NGO dedicated to helping women





I'm back to technical problems with my Facebook Network for Church Monitoring page. Since last night I haven't been able to schedule posts. And this is in addition to being blocked without explanation from posting to groups 21-28 July.

25 July 2018

Dear Facebook,

Since last night I have been unable to schedule posts on my Network for Church Monitoring page.

Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

Sincerely,
Lola Heavey
https://www.facebook.com/networkforchurchmonitoring/

This is the superb article by the world famous venture capitalist Bryan Johnson that I was sharing at the time of Facebook's block last Saturday:



http://churchandstate.org.uk/2018/07/a-plan-for-humanity/

21 July: I am blocked by Facebook for sharing another one of Bryan Johnson's articles. No explanation provided.

11 July: Is Facebook now blocking me from posting Bryan Johnson's articles to my own walls? (WITH UPDATE 12/7/2018)

10 July: I am blocked by Facebook for sharing one of Bryan Johnson's articles. No explanation provided.

Re: Facebook

Paragraph 40 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

40. The Applicant's wife has encountered numerous problems with Facebook. In August 2011, then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone wrote to Facebook on the Applicant's behalf, asking that they explain why she had been barred (see Annex 19, p. 47). The bar was subsequently lifted; however, since December 2015, Facebook has blocked her from posting to groups 37 times, and for up to 12 days at a time (see Annex 22, p. 50). In December 2015, Shadow Home Office Minister Lyn Brown made an enquiry on the Applicant's behalf to Facebook UK Managing Director Steve Hatch asking if he could offer an explanation as to the terms and conditions the Applicant's wife was alleged to have broken twice previously (see Annex 20, p. 48). To the best of the Applicant's knowledge, Mr. Hatch did not respond to this letter. The Applicant's wife only ever posts to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that she is well familiar with, and she only ever posts articles that she has already published on the Church and State website. This concerted campaign against the Church and State website escalated in November 2017 after the site topped more than 3 million hits over the previous eleven months [emphasis added]. In March 2018, the Applicant's wife was blocked from posting to groups four times (for 29 out of 31 days), and all without explanation. The following is taken from her complaint to Facebook dated 28 January 2018 (see Annex 21, p. 49):

"Seldom has Facebook made it clear why I am being blocked. Today's block records as the 30th time Facebook has blocked me from posting to groups since 1 December 2015. The only explanation given at the time of one of these blocks has been "spam" (received today); and Facebook has only responded to four of my previous 29 appeals, citing "technical problems" in each instance. Nonetheless, I have been blocked from posting to groups a total of 43 days (and counting) in the last three months alone."

UPDATE 25 July (11.39am): This morning I was able to schedule a meme, but I can't schedule Church and State articles (day 2). Yesterday I also raised a query with NatWest Bank about the fact that yesterday morning I had to order a debit card to replace the one I've got, which expires at the end of the month. This morning I clarified with the Bank that I have been using my current card to withdraw money from my account all year. I last used the card for an over-the-counter withdrawal of £250 on 7 July 2018. NatWest is owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland, which is one of the UK's largest banks. I remain somewhat perplexed as to why a replacement debit card was not ordered automatically on my account, as in previous years. Declan has also never experienced this problem with any of his bank cards, ever.



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at 12:35 am

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Our battle with the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service continues. In clear breach of the Human Rights Act, Declan is told he will accept a joint visit(s) from the charity whether or not he is comfortable with the arrangement (WITH UPDATE 24/7/2018)

Your brilliant web site is a beacon for all seeking truthful insights to knotty problems with governance.
-Donald Collins, President of ISAF, an NGO dedicated to helping women

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).
Heavey v St Mungo's (2016)

St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson successfully had Declan's claim for £400 (in costs alone) dismissed by writing in a Witness Statement to the Central London County Court that St Mungo's were "keen to work with Mr Heavey to ensure that he remains securely housed and does not face homelessness again". (He also maintained and argued the point in two court hearings before two different District Court judges.) It took the scheduling of a preliminary hearing in October 2016 to have case notes from two meetings rectified by Williamson as Declan had requested all along; and that rectification only took place after a failed attempt by an international firm of solicitors, Osborne Clarke, to have Declan's claim struck out on the papers. The judge at the preliminary hearing dismissed St Mungo's application to strike out Declan's claim for compensation, and District Judge Avent's order dated 11 March 2017 does not state why he dismissed the claim.

20 February 2017: The Central London County Court: District Judge Avent dismisses Declan's claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's that alleged the falsification and fabrication of data against us (WITH UPDATE 16/3/2017)

Declan and I are tenants of the Clearing House, which is run by St Mungo's on behalf of the Mayor of London; see my blog post of 14 July, DAY 59 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan has worked inaccurate personal data into his claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court (WITH UPDATE 24/7/2018). For over two months we have been battling St Mungo's to stabilise our tenancy. Yesterday Declan received a shocking email from St Mungo's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) Line Manager Ola Pedro. Basically Declan was told he will accept a joint visit(s) from St Mungo's TST whether or not he is comfortable with the arranangement. "I will be attending the [TST] meeting," Pedro forcibly wrote in an email he cc'd to St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson. Declan replied to Williamson in a manner that keeps his court action active, albeit in a different form. Williamson has been monitoring our attempts to stabilise our tenancy since he replied to Declan's pre-action letter on 8 June. Nonetheless, in the space of two months, we have gone from one problem with this charity to another. First it was problems with the renewal of our tenancy that took two months to resolve. For a month it has been problems with inaccurate personal data that have yet to be resolved. And now it is a forced joint visit(s) from the charity, and which, of course, could easily become by anyone in attendance and at any time. We await Williamson's reply for the court.

For the attention of Howard Sinclair, CEO, St Mungo's

Dominic Williamson
Executive Director
St Mungo’s

Address removed for email


23 July 2018

Dear Mr Williamson,

I refer to Ola Pedro's email below. Neither my wife nor I are comfortable with any more joint visits from the St Mungo's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST). Please would you provide me with written assurance that such visits will not in fact be forced upon either of us.

The last joint meeting we had with a St Mungo's TST manager in attendance was on 16 May 2018. At that meeting my wife and I were assured that the next day we would be issued a like-for-like renewal of tenancy. This turned out not to be true and caused us great hardship and expense for two months.

Sofia Pires has already explained her role as a TST North Case Worker (abbreviated TST Worker). Sofia defined her role in less than ten seconds. On 25 June 2018, she told my wife right off the bat that her role is: 1) to find out what my wife's needs are, and 2) to support my wife as best she can.

On 16 May 2018, I was also assured that I would be provided with a like-for-like TST Worker, not a TST Worker that is "in essence" the same. So this too has tuned out not to be true.

I am hopeful that the written assurance herein sought from you will at least be sufficient to ensure that our tenancy is brought into line with Article 8 (protection of family life and home) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the Human Rights Act 1998. Alternatively, please would you provide me with my rights of appeal.

Until such time as Mark Farley's role is clearly defined, I cannot possibly agree to meet with him. I have absolutely no idea how specifically his role is defined because neither he nor Mr Pedro will define it for me.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

Last May St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed on 14 May, it left Declan gob smacked. He has already spoken with Diane Taylor, the journalist who is covering the story for the Guardian. This is her update article on the scandal:


UPDATE 24/7/2018 (11.36am): Declan has just phoned St Mungo's to speak with Williamson, but was put through to his voice mail. Declan also tried his office number, but nobody is picking up there either. If we have to file a claim in the Central London County Court to stabilise our tenancy, we of course will. The signs remain ominous.


The Central London County Court is located in the Royal Courts of Justice.

***

We were evicted from our previous flat in March 2013 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 recent updated complaint to the United Nations, former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler also lived with human rights activist Belinda McKenzie in the same political 'safe house' for a couple of years until 2007. According to BBC Panorama, Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair"; he was jailed for seven weeks in 2002 for breaking the Official Secrets Act. It's unfortunate that Shayler declared himself the Messiah in 2007, became a squatter, and was subsequently ridiculed in the press for changing his name to Delores Kane. A New Statesman article published in 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 him the following year reveals he believed himself to be Jesus by June 2007. He has never regained his normal self.
The Esquire article below* is mentioned in a Guardian article dated 27 March 2012. It's 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 read here.

BBC PANORAMA: The David Shayler Affair (August 1998)

Former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair", according to BBC Panorama. He was jailed for seven weeks in 2002 for breaking the Official Secrets Act.

at 11:13 am

Saturday, July 21, 2018

I am blocked by Facebook for sharing another one of Bryan Johnson's articles. No explanation provided.





This is the superb article by the world famous venture capitalist Bryan Johnson that I was sharing at the time:



http://churchandstate.org.uk/2018/07/a-plan-for-humanity/

11 July: Is Facebook now blocking me from posting Bryan Johnson's articles to my own walls? (WITH UPDATE 12/7/2018)

10 July: I am blocked by Facebook for sharing one of Bryan Johnson's articles. No explanation provided.


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at 10:34 pm

Friday, July 20, 2018

The Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's still have not rectified inaccurate personal data that could destabilise our new tenancy

Your brilliant web site is a beacon for all seeking truthful insights to knotty problems with governance.
-Donald Collins, President of ISAF, an NGO dedicated to helping women

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).
Heavey v St Mungo's (2016)

St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson successfully had Declan's claim for £400 (in costs alone) dismissed by writing in a Witness Statement to the Central London County Court that St Mungo's were "keen to work with Mr Heavey to ensure that he remains securely housed and does not face homelessness again". (He also maintained and argued the point in two court hearings before two different District Court judges.) It took the scheduling of a preliminary hearing in October 2016 to have case notes from two meetings rectified by Williamson as Declan had requested all along; and that rectification only took place after a failed attempt by an international firm of solicitors, Osborne Clarke, to have Declan's claim struck out on the papers. The judge at the preliminary hearing dismissed St Mungo's application to strike out Declan's claim for compensation, and District Judge Avent's order dated 11 March 2017 does not state why he dismissed the claim.

20 February 2017: The Central London County Court: District Judge Avent dismisses Declan's claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's that alleged the falsification and fabrication of data against us (WITH UPDATE 16/3/2017)

For over two months Declan and I have been engaged in a life-and-death battle to stabilise our tenancy with the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service; see my blog of 14 July, DAY 59 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan has worked inaccurate personal data into his claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court. Last Tuesday we finally received a like-for-like 2 year fixed term tenancy from our landlord, Peabody Trust. However, we're still waiting for a download of rectified case notes from a meeting I had with Tenancy Sustainment Team Worker Sofia Pires on 25 June. Last week Declan brought the email below to the attention of St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson. In a Witness Statement in 2016, Williamson wrote: "I have senior responsibility in St Mungo's for information security and governance."

Sofia Pires
TST Worker
St Mungo's

Address removed for email


10 July 2018

Dear Sofia,

I note that you have chosen only to amend my truthful and accurate statement relating to my reference to living in a limbo state. First you wrote:

- Maria [aka Lola] said that at the moment she feels "living in a constant limbo state" due to the housing situation.

I asked you to amend this inaccurate and ambiguous statement to read as follows:

- Maria said that at the moment she and her husband are living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served (a threat to life).

You have instead provided me with an even more inaccurate and ambiguous statement (subject to even more and more serious interpretations):

- Maria said that at the moment she and her husband are "living in a limbo state", subject to their current housing situation.

I regret that this latest statement of yours is unlawful under the Data Protection Act 2018 as it would be in breach of one or more of the Data Protection Principles for being inaccurate and vague hearsay information subject to multiple interpretations. Further, it is not an action note. You also suggest omitting from your upload other notes we have agreed upon relating to at least one action and two updates.

Please could you send me the grand total of the information you wish to upload. At this point I am not insisting upon action notes and updates only. However, I cannot possibly accept unlawful wording. I would be willing to accept the following wording relating to my reference to living in a limbo state:

- Maria said that at the moment she and her husband are living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served.

Limbo is defined as "a condition of prolonged uncertainty". It is indisputable that to be living in a periodic tenancy subject to a section 21 eviction notice is a condition of prolonged uncertainty. Only the unreasonable or prejudicial could see it otherwise. The omission of a section 21 eviction notice here is not an option to be lawful.

And I must say that I am somewhat perplexed as to why you would focus on this one sentence, but would suggest omitting any reference to the additional voluntary work I have applied for with Newham Council's Active Newham (an action), my ongoing job as an employee of Network for Church Monitoring (an update), and my voluntary work on Fridays in a day centre through Active Newham for over two years (an update).

I await the grand total of the information you wish to upload under my name taking into account the above.

Regards,

Maria Heavey
Webmaster
Network for Church Monitoring

cc Gemma Goacher, St Mungo's TST Service Manager
Ola Pedro, St Mungo's TST Line Manager

St Mungo's recently made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed on 14 May, it left Declan gob smacked. He has already spoken with Diane Taylor, the journalist who is covering the story for the Guardian. This is her up-date piece on the scandal:


This is Declan's threat-to-life paragraph in his recent updated complaint to the United Nations:
Re: Threat to life (The Greater London Authority)

Paragraph 38 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

38. It has been acknowledged by the GLA in judicial review papers that the Applicant and his wife can live independently – they do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Their needs are solely related to the harassment and intimidation they routinely face. Following their unavoidable court action against St. Mungo's last year (see para. 36 above), they are extremely concerned that their tenancy will not this time be renewed on the same terms as the original tenancy agreement. (The Applicant has repeatedly asked Peabody for a new, like-for-like fixed term contract from 16 May 2018 and has contacted his local councillor to take up his case.) The Applicant may then be left with no option but to challenge this decision in the High Court (Judicial Review) as unreasonable, unlawful and incapable of legal justification. As the matter stands, therefore, there is a threat to life and well-being considering the following range of factors as applicable:

(i) The Applicant has a history of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis and other lung infections. Both he and his wife doubt he has the respiratory health to survive even another year or two on the streets. He is in his late fifties and during his and his wife's first period of homelessness he was twice hospitalised, once with pneumonia in December 2006 and the second time with a viral infection in October 2007. Near the end of their second period of homelessness in April 2014, the Applicant was diagnosed with asthma as well as a chest infection (see para. 31 above).

(ii) Both the Applicant and his wife have serious concerns about the health care the Applicant has or has not received over the years from National Health Service (NHS) England. Prior to his hospitalisation with pneumonia in 2006, he lost consciousness while vomiting and could have easily died had his wife not been with him. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital discharged him 42 hours after admission whilst still unwell (into the shivering cold and dense fog), placing him at risk. The Applicant most recently complained to NHS England about emergency dental treatment he received in January 2018. He complained in part that he had a nerve removed from a tooth but was only prescribed antibiotics after the eruption of the tooth days later. NHS England did not uphold any aspect of the Applicant's complaint. The tooth itself was extracted a month to the day after the emergency treatment.

(iii) Back on the streets the Applicant and his wife will be restricted to sleeping on night buses, notwithstanding the Applicant's asthma and now increased susceptibility to respiratory disease. They were forced into this predicament prior to coming off the streets the second time because of an excessive use of force by police officers to move them out of where they had been sleeping. This included the Applicant's wife being threatened with arrest on the trumped-up charge of assaulting a police officer (see para. 31 above). Since the subsequent escalation of the migration crisis in Europe, the police have been given more powers to crack down on rough sleeping and need less to resort to excessive force (such as arrest without lawful authority).





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at 7:39 pm

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Royal Mail: Once again Declan complains to the CEO of Royal Mail about mail not being delivered through our letter box (WITH UPDATE 1/8/2018)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

We have been in a life-and-death battle with the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service for over two months now; see my blog post last Saturday, DAY 59 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan has worked inaccurate personal data into his claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court (WITH UPDATE 17/7/2018). That battle continues over misleading data that could destabilise our tenancy, but this morning we finally received a renewed two-year tenancy agreement from our landlord, Peabody Trust. It was delivered by Royal Mail through the bathroom window of another tenant's flat. Declan has complained to the new CEO of Royal Mail, Rico Back. This was an email he cc'd to the former CEO of Royal Mail, Moya Greene last year:

For the attention of Moya Greene, Chief Executive, Royal Mail

Emma Stanton
Royal Mail Customer Service Centre

Address removed for email


19 May 2017

Dear Ms Stanton,

Complaint: 1-3891637251 - Royal Mail

Since your email of 21 March about the loss of my and my wife's employment contracts to the United States, letters are not being put through our letter box. I understand from speaking with one of your colleagues this afternoon that these incidents have been recorded as "door stepping" under the above case number.

I can confirm that this morning I received a cheque for £9.25 from Royal Mail to refund my postage on the loss of the aforementioned item to the United States. I have not been given the reason why the tracking stopped on this item, with not even the first Royal Mail collection office (Romford Mail Centre) recorded on the track and trace report.

Please could you advise what action I should take the next time my or my wife's mail is left in an insecure place.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey

19 May 2017: Royal Mail: Complaint to the CEO of Royal Mail about 'door-stepping' incidents following the loss of our employment contracts to the United States (WITH UPDATE 23/5/2017)
Re: Royal Mail

Paragraph 42 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

42. The Applicant further complains that the extent of the interference with his and his wife's emails resulted in 2011 in the shelving of the Applicant's petition to the United Nations in support of embryonic stem cell research, which had by then been signed by 29 Nobel laureates as well as hundreds of other distinguished scholars from around the world. In April 2010, an American professor wrote to Minister Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse." Despite the Minister's subsequent letter to then Home Secretary Theresa May (see para. 6 above), it is still not uncommon for the Applicant to have to make phone calls to try to get emails through to people. The Applicant has also amassed irrefutable evidence relating to problems with mail delivery (both incoming and outgoing). Most recently, in May 2017, the Applicant complained to Royal Mail about the mishandling of his and his wife's incoming mail following the loss of their employment contracts to the United States. He had repeatedly complained about mail not being put through their letter box before he received £30 in compensation from Royal Mail and an assurance from the Royal Mail Chief Executive's Office that "the actions taken will prevent this happening again".

UPDATE 1 August (11.45am): This morning Declan received an apology from Royal Mail for "misdelivered mail". Hopefully, this means that we will receive all future mail through our letter box. Declan received the following from Moya Greene last year:

22 May 2017

Dear Mr Heavey

Thank you for your e-mail. I am sorry to hear that you have had problems with the handling of your enquiry and have asked my senior team to look into this for you straightaway.

Yours sincerely

Moya Greene
Chief Executive Officer

This morning I updated my blog post of 27 June, SITE BLOCKS: The blocks on access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 1/8/2018: re 1,283rd block since 26 July 2016). The blog post also reveals the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout Church and State which continues to this day. For example, the second article below has over 1/2 million Facebook likes/shares (not zero):



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at 1:07 pm

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Are the signatories on our Nobel petition under attack for the first time since its launch in 2007? 29 Nobelists still on board

Yesterday we had 1,084 signatories (not 1,083):

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https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/consideration-by-the-united-nations-of-a-declaration-on-human-cloning-for-therapeutic-reasons.html

And the second article below has more than 1/2 million Facebook likes/shares (not zero):





14 July (previous post): DAY 59 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan has worked inaccurate personal data into his claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court

To see two lists of notable signatories click here:
Petition to the UN in support of embryonic stem cell research signed by 29 Nobel Prize winners

at 3:19 pm

DAY 59 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan has worked inaccurate personal data into his claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court (WITH UPDATE 3/8/2018)


The Central London County Court is located in the Royal Courts of Justice.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).
Heavey v St Mungo's (2016)

St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson successfully had Declan's claim for £400 (in costs alone) dismissed by writing in a Witness Statement to the Central London County Court that St Mungo's were "keen to work with Mr Heavey to ensure that he remains securely housed and does not face homelessness again". (He also maintained and argued the point in two court hearings before two different District Court judges.) It took the scheduling of a preliminary hearing in October 2016 to have case notes from two meetings rectified by Williamson as Declan had requested all along; and that rectification only took place after a failed attempt by an international firm of solicitors, Osborne Clarke, to have Declan's claim struck out on the papers. The judge at the preliminary hearing dismissed St Mungo's application to strike out Declan's claim for compensation, and District Judge Avent's order dated 11 March 2017 does not state why he dismissed the claim.

20 February 2017: The Central London County Court: District Judge Avent dismisses Declan's claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's that alleged the falsification and fabrication of data against us (WITH UPDATE 16/3/2017)

This is DAY 59 for us living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served (a death threat). The tenancy agreement we were asked to sign on 18 May is a shocking document (see here). Now Declan has worked my problems with inaccurate personal data into his claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court next week (see paragraph 5 below). Declan is seeking damages for distress and costs:

Brief details of claim

The Claimant and his wife are tenants of the Clearing House, which is run by the Defendant on behalf of the Mayor of London. They are living in a Clearing House property owned by Peabody Trust since 17 May 2014, and first had their fixed term tenancy for two years renewed on 16 May 2016. On 16 May 2018, during a meeting with the Claimant and his wife at their home, representatives for the Defendant and Peabody agreed to the 'like-for-like' renewal of tenancy. However, the Claimant then received a tenancy agreement that not only is far from a like-for-like contract, but that breaches the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA). In reply to the Claimant's pre-action letter dated 22 May 2018, the Defendant wrote that the Claimant needed to address his concerns to Peabody. The Claimant had already made a formal complaint to Peabody, but to no avail to date. For two months (since 17 May 2018), the Claimant and his wife have been living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served. This limbo state in itself constitutes discrimination, a type of harassment, and a threat to life. The Claimant is therefore making an application to the Court for a declaration that the Defendant has acted unlawfully and in dereliction of its duty. The Claimant seeks damages for distress and costs.

Value

The Claimant expects to recover not more than £1,000.

Particulars of Claim

1. The Claimant and his wife are tenants of the Clearing House, which is run by the Defendant on behalf of the Mayor of London. The Greater London Authority (GLA) funds and commissions the Clearing House and related Tenancy Sustainment Teams (TSTs) to the tune of £2.6 million per year. The Claimant adduces quotations from two sources of information to show that he and his wife are tenants of the Clearing House: the GLA in High Court papers in 2015 and the Defendant's 9-page report entitled "Clearing House at 25" (see Supporting Documents (SD), p. 10). They are living in a Clearing House property (with reference to the Defendant's report), having been "referred for support to the TST like all other Clearing House tenants" (to quote the GLA). The Defendant's report uses the word 'tenant' no less than six times.

2. The Claimant and his wife have been living in a flat owned by Peabody Trust since 17 May 2014, and first had their fixed term tenancy for two years renewed on 16 May 2016. The Claimant had repeatedly requested the reissue of another tenancy before Peabody wrote on 10 May 2018 that: "[I]t would be the Tenancy Sustainment Team at St Mungo's who you would need to speak to about your renewal of tenancy." In a subsequent email to the Defendant's CEO Howard Sinclair, the Claimant challenged the decision of the Clearing House not to reissue another tenancy (see SD, pp. 32-36). On 15 May 2018, the Claimant issued the GLA with a Letter Before Claim, in which he averred that the Defendant's decision for two former entrenched rough sleepers with high support needs amounted to a type of harassment and a death threat (see SD, pp. 23-31). (GLA Legal replied on 24 May 2018, stating that the decision to rule out the reissue of another tenancy "is not a decision of the GLA or the Mayor".)

3. On 16 May 2018, the day after the Claimant issued the GLA his Letter Before Claim, the Defendant's TST Manager Gemma Goacher and Peabody Neighbourhood Manager Chantelle Mitchell agreed (on tape) to the 'like-for-like' renewal of tenancy during a meeting with the Claimant and his wife at their home. Ms. Goacher also assured the Claimant and his wife that they would each be allocated their own 'TST Worker'. The Claimant's wife was so encouraged by these developments that she applied that evening to take an End of Life Care Level 2 course with Vision2Learn. However, two days later, on 18 May 2018, the Claimant received through the post a tenancy agreement that not only is far from a like-for-like contract, but that breaches Article 8 (protection of family life and home) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the HRA (see SD, pp. 20-22).

4. The Claimant sent a pre-action letter to the Defendant on 22 May 2018 (see SD, pp. 18-19). In this letter, the Claimant informed the Defendant that he and his wife have been effectively living in limbo since 17 May 2018, subject to the section 21 procedure – whereby a landlord can evict a tenant without having to give any valid reason, so long as the proper procedure has been followed. The Defendant responded on 8 June 2018, stating that the Clearing House does not have tenants and that the Claimant needed to address his concerns to Peabody (see SD, pp. 11-17). The Claimant had already made a formal Stage 1 complaint to Peabody, which he submitted on 22 May 2018. The Housing Ombudsman Service (HOS) wrote to Peabody on 18 June 2018 seeking a response for the Claimant to his complaint by 2 July 2018. Peabody did not respond to the HOS or the Claimant until 9 July 2018, and then provided the Claimant with an amended tenancy agreement that is potentially even more dangerous than the former, missing four schedules, including 'special terms', for a start.

5. The Defendant's assertion that the Clearing House does not have tenants is a straw man argument. What is indisputable from the two sources of information cited in paragraph 1 above is that the Defendant bears responsibility for a tenancy agreement between the individual and the landlord. On 5 July 2018, the Claimant's wife wrote to her newly assigned TST Worker, Sofia Pires. She explained at length why another meeting with representatives for the Defendant and Peabody is not a reasonable proposal (see SD, pp. 1-6). (The Claimant's wife has subsequently had to request the rectification of case notes from her first meeting with Ms. Pires on 25 June 2018, which she has been informed will be uploaded in amended form and without first seeking her approval.[1]) A reasonable course of action is for Peabody to provide the Claimant with the like-for-like tenancy that was agreed upon on 16 May 2018; or alternatively, to adhere to its own formal complaints process.

6. The Claimant can refer the matter to a Designated Person (that is an MP, councillor or recognised tenants panel) with Peabody's final response to his complaint, or can go directly to the Housing Ombudsman eight weeks after Peabody has given him the final response. However, Peabody has shown no inclination to consider this matter as a formal complaint and provide a response to the Claimant in line with their complaints procedure. For two months (since 17 May 2018), the Claimant and his wife have been living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 notice being served. This limbo state in itself constitutes discrimination, a type of harassment, and a death threat. The Defendant, therefore, has acted unlawfully and in dereliction of its duty. For the Defendant to claim that it bears no responsibility for the breaches of the HRA that have occurred and continue to occur is nothing but an exercise in empty rhetoric.

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[1] 11 July: Declan will have worked my ongoing problems with case notes into his court claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's by the end of the week (WITH UPDATE 14/7/2018)

St Mungo's recently made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed on 14 May, it left Declan gob smacked. He has already spoken with Diane Taylor, the journalist who is covering the story for the Guardian. This is her update article on the scandal:



UPDATE 3 August (9.15am): Declan's claim against St Mungo's in pursuance of Article 8 (protection of family life and home) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the HRA remains active, albeit in a different form. For over two months we have been battling this charity to stabilise our tenancy. On 17 July we finally received a like-for-like renewal of tenancy from Peabody, i.e. on DAY 62 living in a limbo state (a threat to life). However, my problems with inaccurate personal data for over a month got even more serious this week - St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson is knowingly (since 1 August) holding against me data he assured the court last year had been rectified by him as someone with "senior responsibility in St Mungo's for information security and governance". And for over a week it has been enforced joint visits from the St Mungo's TST, in clear breach of the same two articles of the HRA; see my newer blog post this morning, Our dispute with the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service over enforced joint visits rages on. St Mungo's CEO Howard Sinclair remains vague on the issue. This is Declan's threat-to-life paragraph in his recent updated complaint to the United Nations:
Re: Threat to life (The Greater London Authority)

Paragraph 38 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

38. It has been acknowledged by the GLA in judicial review papers that the Applicant and his wife can live independently – they do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Their needs are solely related to the harassment and intimidation they routinely face. Following their unavoidable court action against St. Mungo's last year (see para. 36 above), they are extremely concerned that their tenancy will not this time be renewed on the same terms as the original tenancy agreement. (The Applicant has repeatedly asked Peabody for a new, like-for-like fixed term contract from 16 May 2018 and has contacted his local councillor to take up his case.) The Applicant may then be left with no option but to challenge this decision in the High Court (Judicial Review) as unreasonable, unlawful and incapable of legal justification. As the matter stands, therefore, there is a threat to life and well-being considering the following range of factors as applicable:

(i) The Applicant has a history of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis and other lung infections. Both he and his wife doubt he has the respiratory health to survive even another year or two on the streets. He is in his late fifties and during his and his wife's first period of homelessness he was twice hospitalised, once with pneumonia in December 2006 and the second time with a viral infection in October 2007. Near the end of their second period of homelessness in April 2014, the Applicant was diagnosed with asthma as well as a chest infection (see para. 31 above).

(ii) Both the Applicant and his wife have serious concerns about the health care the Applicant has or has not received over the years from National Health Service (NHS) England. Prior to his hospitalisation with pneumonia in 2006, he lost consciousness while vomiting and could have easily died had his wife not been with him. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital discharged him 42 hours after admission whilst still unwell (into the shivering cold and dense fog), placing him at risk. The Applicant most recently complained to NHS England about emergency dental treatment he received in January 2018. He complained in part that he had a nerve removed from a tooth but was only prescribed antibiotics after the eruption of the tooth days later. NHS England did not uphold any aspect of the Applicant's complaint. The tooth itself was extracted a month to the day after the emergency treatment.

(iii) Back on the streets the Applicant and his wife will be restricted to sleeping on night buses, notwithstanding the Applicant's asthma and now increased susceptibility to respiratory disease. They were forced into this predicament prior to coming off the streets the second time because of an excessive use of force by police officers to move them out of where they had been sleeping. This included the Applicant's wife being threatened with arrest on the trumped-up charge of assaulting a police officer (see para. 31 above). Since the subsequent escalation of the migration crisis in Europe, the police have been given more powers to crack down on rough sleeping and need less to resort to excessive force (such as arrest without lawful authority).





From My Picks:

8 May 2018: Threat to life: Updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Today we are cut off the internet for a half an hour


http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

at 11:36 am

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Is Facebook now blocking me from posting Bryan Johnson's articles to my own walls? (WITH UPDATE 12/7/2018)

Lola,
This is ground breaking material. Keep it going.
- Donald Collins, President of ISAF, an NGO dedicated to helping women


Bryan Johnson is a world famous venture capitalist. In 2007, he founded Braintree which he sold to PayPal in 2013 for $800M. Last night Facebook blocked me from posting to groups until 17 July without explanation after I tried sharing one of his articles (see here). Tonight they are blocking me from posting another one of his articles. When I try posting it to my Network for Church Monitoring page, it is automatically deleted without explanation. When I try posting it to my own wall, I am told it has been removed because they say it is spam. This is the superb article they are calling spam:



http://churchandstate.org.uk/2018/07/future-literacy-adaptability-problem/

I am now determined to publish two of Bryan's articles per day for the duration of Facebook's block until 17 July.
Re: Facebook

Paragraph 40 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

40. The Applicant's wife has encountered numerous problems with Facebook. In August 2011, then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone wrote to Facebook on the Applicant's behalf, asking that they explain why she had been barred (see Annex 19, p. 47). The bar was subsequently lifted; however, since December 2015, Facebook has blocked her from posting to groups 37 times, and for up to 12 days at a time (see Annex 22, p. 50). In December 2015, Shadow Home Office Minister Lyn Brown made an enquiry on the Applicant's behalf to Facebook UK Managing Director Steve Hatch asking if he could offer an explanation as to the terms and conditions the Applicant's wife was alleged to have broken twice previously (see Annex 20, p. 48). To the best of the Applicant's knowledge, Mr. Hatch did not respond to this letter. The Applicant's wife only ever posts to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that she is well familiar with, and she only ever posts articles that she has already published on the Church and State website. This concerted campaign against the Church and State website escalated in November 2017 after the site topped more than 3 million hits over the previous eleven months [emphasis added]. In March 2018, the Applicant's wife was blocked from posting to groups four times (for 29 out of 31 days), and all without explanation. The following is taken from her complaint to Facebook dated 28 January 2018 (see Annex 21, p. 49):

"Seldom has Facebook made it clear why I am being blocked. Today's block records as the 30th time Facebook has blocked me from posting to groups since 1 December 2015. The only explanation given at the time of one of these blocks has been "spam" (received today); and Facebook has only responded to four of my previous 29 appeals, citing "technical problems" in each instance. Nonetheless, I have been blocked from posting to groups a total of 43 days (and counting) in the last three months alone."




Facebook UK Managing Director Steve Hatch



UPDATE 12 July (10.21am): This morning we were thrilled to receive Bryan's permission to add his name to our list of 176 honorary associates, which includes two Nobel Prize winners. I'm still in Facebook jail but using the time at my disposal to focus on Bryan's material. Two articles per day will give me a total of 17 articles by the time Facebook lift their 41st block against our Church and State website. Our Bryan Johnson page already contains five articles. By the time I'm out of Facebook jail, I expect to have an unbelievable sidebar brim-full of Bryan's amazing content. I can't wait!
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at 9:49 pm

Declan will have worked my ongoing problems with case notes into his court claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's by the end of the week (WITH UPDATE 14/7/2018)



From my most recent St Mungo's Update:

DAY 56 UPDATE 11 July (9.21am): This is DAY 56 for us living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served (a threat to life). In my previous blog post, I published Declan's claim against St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court. Declan will have worked my ongoing problems with case notes into the claim by the end of the week. They're actually a lot worse today. And if they were to be uploaded the way they were sent to me yesterday (with two St Mungo's Managers cc'd on the email), I will also make formal complaints to the Information Commissioner and the Greater London Authority. This is Declan's threat-to-life paragraph in his recent updated complaint to the United Nations: ...
Heavey v St Mungo's (2016)

St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson successfully had Declan's claim for £400 (in costs alone) dismissed by writing in a Witness Statement to the Central London County Court that St Mungo's were "keen to work with Mr Heavey to ensure that he remains securely housed and does not face homelessness again". (He also maintained and argued the point in two court hearings before two different District Court judges.) It took the scheduling of a preliminary hearing in October 2016 to have case notes from two meetings rectified by Williamson as Declan had requested all along; and that rectification only took place after a failed attempt by an international firm of solicitors, Osborne Clarke, to have Declan's claim struck out on the papers. The judge at the preliminary hearing dismissed St Mungo's application to strike out Declan's claim for compensation, and District Judge Avent's order dated 11 March 2017 does not state why he dismissed the claim.

20 February 2017: The Central London County Court: District Judge Avent dismisses Declan's claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's that alleged the falsification and fabrication of data against us (WITH UPDATE 16/3/2017)

Declan and I are tenants of the Clearing House, which is run by St Mungo's on behalf of the Mayor of London; see my blog post of 7 July, DAY 52 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan sees immediate court action against the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service as his only option (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE - DAY 54 9/7/2018). As soon as we started work this morning, we were cut off the internet. I sent this email to the charity yesterday:

Sofia Pires
TST [Tenancy Sustainment Team] Worker
St Mungo's

Address removed for email


10 July 2018

Dear Sofia,

I note that you have chosen only to amend my truthful and accurate statement relating to my reference to living in a limbo state. First you wrote:

- Maria [aka Lola] said that at the moment she feels "living in a constant limbo state" due to the housing situation.

I asked you to amend this inaccurate and ambiguous statement to read as follows:

- Maria said that at the moment she and her husband are living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served (a threat to life).

You have instead provided me with an even more inaccurate and ambiguous statement (subject to even more and more serious interpretations):

- Maria said that at the moment she and her husband are "living in a limbo state", subject to their current housing situation.

I regret that this latest statement of yours is unlawful under the Data Protection Act 2018 as it would be in breach of one or more of the Data Protection Principles for being inaccurate and vague hearsay information subject to multiple interpretations. Further, it is not an action note. You also suggest omitting from your upload other notes we have agreed upon relating to at least one action and two updates.

Please could you send me the grand total of the information you wish to upload. At this point I am not insisting upon action notes and updates only. However, I cannot possibly accept unlawful wording. I would be willing to accept the following wording relating to my reference to living in a limbo state:

- Maria said that at the moment she and her husband are living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served.

Limbo is defined as "a condition of prolonged uncertainty". It is indisputable that to be living in a periodic tenancy subject to a section 21 eviction notice is a condition of prolonged uncertainty. Only the unreasonable or prejudicial could see it otherwise. The omission of a section 21 eviction notice here is not an option to be lawful.

And I must say that I am somewhat perplexed as to why you would focus on this one sentence, but would suggest omitting any reference to the additional voluntary work I have applied for with Newham Council's Active Newham (an action), my ongoing job as an employee of Network for Church Monitoring (an update), and my voluntary work on Fridays in a day centre through Active Newham for over two years (an update).

I await the grand total of the information you wish to upload under my name taking into account the above.

Regards,

Maria Heavey
Webmaster
Network for Church Monitoring

cc Gemma Goacher, St Mungo's TST Service Manager
Ola Pedro, St Mungo's TST Line Manager

St Mungo's recently made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed on 14 May, it left Declan gob smacked. He has already spoken with Diane Taylor, the journalist who is covering the story for the Guardian. This is her up-date piece on the scandal:


UPDATE 14 July (1.31pm): Last Wednesday Declan brought my email above to the attention of St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson. In a Witness Statement in 2016, Williamson wrote: "I have senior responsibility in St Mungo's for information security and governance." Yesterday Pires wrote: "I can confirm that the action notes of our first meeting have been updated to reflect the amendments you have requested. Please allow me some time to send you the download of those actions." So Declan has updated paragraph 5 of his court claim against St Mungo's: "The Claimant's wife has subsequently had to request the rectification of case notes from her first meeting with Ms. Pires on 25 June 2018, which she has been informed will be uploaded in amended form and without first seeking her approval." See my newer blog post this morning, DAY 59 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan has worked inaccurate personal data into his claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court next week.



From My Picks:

8 May 2018: Threat to life: Updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Today we are cut off the internet for a half an hour


http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

at 10:04 am

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

I am blocked by Facebook for sharing one of Bryan Johnson's articles. No explanation provided.





This is the superb article by the world famous venture capitalist Bryan Johnson that I was sharing at the time:



http://churchandstate.org.uk/2018/07/we-need-strategically-unprecedented-moves-from-ai/


http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

at 9:00 pm

Is the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service now seeking to redefine our tenancy?



Declan and I are tenants of the Clearing House, which is run by St Mungo's on behalf of the Mayor of London; see my blog post of 7 July, DAY 52 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan sees immediate court action against the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service as his only option (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE - DAY 54 9/7/2018). Just before we were cut off the internet for a 1/4 hour this afternoon, Declan sent this email to the charity:

Ola Pedro
TST Line Manager
St Mungo's

Address removed for email


10 July 2018

Dear Mr Pedro,

I am somewhat concerned that Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) Worker Mark Farley feels a need to have you at my first introductory TST meeting with him. I understood that this was supposed to be a straightforward first introductory TST meeting, such as my wife had with Sofia Pires on 25 June 2018.

Sofia has already explained her role as a TST North Case Worker (abbreviated TST Worker). Sofia defined her role in less than ten seconds. She told my wife right off the bat that her role is: 1) to find out what my wife's needs are, and 2) to support my wife as best she can.

Please can you explain how Mark's role differs from Sofia's, and why you would want to attend this first introductory TST meeting. Of course, it goes without saying that you were not at my wife's first introductory TST meeting with Sofia.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring



From My Picks:

9 July (previous blog post): Are we now also in battle with the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's over case notes that stand in breach of the Data Protection Act 2018? (WITH UPDATE - DAY 55 10/7/2018)

at 1:55 pm

Monday, July 09, 2018

Are we now also in battle with the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's over case notes that stand in breach of the Data Protection Act 2018? (WITH UPDATE - DAY 56 11/7/2018)

Our Church and State website has no less than 40 Nobel Prize winners on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).
Heavey v St Mungo's (2016)

St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson successfully had Declan's claim for £400 (in costs alone) dismissed by writing in a Witness Statement to the Central London County Court that St Mungo's were "keen to work with Mr Heavey to ensure that he remains securely housed and does not face homelessness again". (He also maintained and argued the point in two court hearings before two different District Court judges.) It took the scheduling of a preliminary hearing in October 2016 to have case notes from two meetings rectified by Williamson as Declan had requested all along; and that rectification only took place after a failed attempt by an international firm of solicitors, Osborne Clarke, to have Declan's claim struck out on the papers. The judge at the preliminary hearing dismissed St Mungo's application to strike out Declan's claim for compensation, and District Judge Avent's order dated 11 March 2017 does not state why he dismissed the claim.

20 February 2017: The Central London County Court: District Judge Avent dismisses Declan's claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's that alleged the falsification and fabrication of data against us (WITH UPDATE 16/3/2017)

Declan and I are tenants of the Clearing House, which is run by St Mungo's on behalf of the Mayor of London; see my previous blog post of 7 July, DAY 52 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan sees immediate court action against the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service as his only option (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE - DAY 54 9/7/2018). Declan came within a hair this evening of filing his claim against St Mungo's in the Central London County Court at the Royal Courts of Justice. In addition to that claim (and maybe to become very much a part of it), I still do not know whether or not I am in dispute with my St Mungo's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) Caseworker over her notes from her meeting with me on 25 June. Her notes as they stand are in breach of the Data Protection Act 2018, containing inter alia inaccurate and vague hearsay information. Last week I asked her to amend her notes to read as follows:

Maria [aka Lola] and I met for the first time at her home today at 11am.

During our meeting we discussed the following:

- Maria said she is waiting for her DBS check to come through. She has applied to become a befriender with Newham Council's Active Newham. If she has problems with this, she would like to have back up from myself as her TST Caseworker.

- Maria has been doing voluntary work on Fridays in a day centre through Active Newham since June 2016.

- Maria has a part-time job as an employee of Network for Church Monitoring. This is her main job. She wants to get a second job in end of life care and continue her voluntary work.

- Maria has requested a copy of the action notes from all our meetings (in the form of a download from the organisation's information system as always).

- Maria requested my support to email Peabody regarding the complaint her husband made to Peabody on 22 May 2018. She would like me to ask Peabody to reply to that complaint by Monday, 2 July as requested by the Housing Ombudsman Service on 18 June. Maria applied on 16 May to take an End Of Life Care Level 2 course with Vision2learn. This is an online free course that will last 15 weeks, approximately 10 hours of study a week and will require her to complete assignments. However, she explained to me that she may have to withdraw from the course before it starts if her current living circumstance continues for much longer, because if she doesn't finish the course she will have to pay a fee. Maria said that at the moment she and her husband are living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served (a threat to life). Reason why she would like me to contact Peabody with the above message.

Actions:

- By Wednesday, 27 June 2018 Sofia (TST Caseworker) to contact Maria about emailing Peabody.

I also asked her for a download of my records from the charity's information system - as we have always been getting - but to no avail. I have absolutely no idea how my online records with this charity look at the moment. St Mungo's recently made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed on 14 May, it left Declan gob smacked. He has already spoken with Diane Taylor, the journalist who is covering the story for the Guardian. This is her up-date piece on the scandal:


DAY 56 UPDATE 11 July (9.21am): This is DAY 56 for us living in a limbo state, subject to a section 21 eviction notice being served (a threat to life). In my previous blog post, I published Declan's claim against St Mungo's for filing in the Central London County Court. Declan will have worked my ongoing problems with case notes into the claim by the end of the week. They're actually a lot worse today. And if they were to be uploaded the way they were sent to me yesterday (with two St Mungo's Managers cc'd on the email), I will also make formal complaints to the Information Commissioner and the Greater London Authority. This is Declan's threat-to-life paragraph in his recent updated complaint to the United Nations:
Re: Threat to life (The Greater London Authority)

Paragraph 38 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

38. It has been acknowledged by the GLA in judicial review papers that the Applicant and his wife can live independently – they do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Their needs are solely related to the harassment and intimidation they routinely face. Following their unavoidable court action against St. Mungo's last year (see para. 36 above), they are extremely concerned that their tenancy will not this time be renewed on the same terms as the original tenancy agreement. (The Applicant has repeatedly asked Peabody for a new, like-for-like fixed term contract from 16 May 2018 and has contacted his local councillor to take up his case.) The Applicant may then be left with no option but to challenge this decision in the High Court (Judicial Review) as unreasonable, unlawful and incapable of legal justification. As the matter stands, therefore, there is a threat to life and well-being considering the following range of factors as applicable:

(i) The Applicant has a history of respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis and other lung infections. Both he and his wife doubt he has the respiratory health to survive even another year or two on the streets. He is in his late fifties and during his and his wife's first period of homelessness he was twice hospitalised, once with pneumonia in December 2006 and the second time with a viral infection in October 2007. Near the end of their second period of homelessness in April 2014, the Applicant was diagnosed with asthma as well as a chest infection (see para. 31 above).

(ii) Both the Applicant and his wife have serious concerns about the health care the Applicant has or has not received over the years from National Health Service (NHS) England. Prior to his hospitalisation with pneumonia in 2006, he lost consciousness while vomiting and could have easily died had his wife not been with him. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital discharged him 42 hours after admission whilst still unwell (into the shivering cold and dense fog), placing him at risk. The Applicant most recently complained to NHS England about emergency dental treatment he received in January 2018. He complained in part that he had a nerve removed from a tooth but was only prescribed antibiotics after the eruption of the tooth days later. NHS England did not uphold any aspect of the Applicant's complaint. The tooth itself was extracted a month to the day after the emergency treatment.

(iii) Back on the streets the Applicant and his wife will be restricted to sleeping on night buses, notwithstanding the Applicant's asthma and now increased susceptibility to respiratory disease. They were forced into this predicament prior to coming off the streets the second time because of an excessive use of force by police officers to move them out of where they had been sleeping. This included the Applicant's wife being threatened with arrest on the trumped-up charge of assaulting a police officer (see para. 31 above). Since the subsequent escalation of the migration crisis in Europe, the police have been given more powers to crack down on rough sleeping and need less to resort to excessive force (such as arrest without lawful authority).





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7 July (previous blog post): DAY 52 living in limbo (threat to life): Declan sees immediate court action against the Mayor of London's St Mungo's service as his only option (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE - DAY 54 9/7/2018)


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