⟡ “I Can’t Breathe, But You’re Offended I Don’t Like Your Tone?” ⟡
Formal communication to WCC cataloguing 16 clinical patterns of hostility triggered by social worker conduct during respiratory disability
Filed: 13 January 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/HOSTILITY-PATTERNS-WARNING
📎 Download PDF – 2025-01-13_SWANK_Email_Hornal_HostileConductCatalogue.pdf
An annotated list of hostile behaviors sent to Kirsty Hornal to document the relationship between social work aggression and medically triggered harm
I. What Happened
On 13 January 2025, Polly Chromatic sent a formal written message to Westminster Children’s Services, specifically addressing social worker Kirsty Hornal, to assert boundaries regarding hostile behavior.
Rather than engage in defensive back-and-forth, Polly submitted a taxonomical breakdown of hostility — listing 16 distinct behavioral categories ranging from verbal aggression and dismissiveness to sabotage, sarcasm, and refusal to communicate. Each was cross-referenced with its psychological impact, showing how such behaviors exacerbate asthma, muscle tension dysphonia, and PTSD symptoms.
It wasn’t just an objection. It was a diagnostic framework — presented in pure composure, and mailed to the institution that caused it.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Procedural breaches: Continued verbal or tonal hostility despite disability-based written-only communication requests
Human impact: Breathing difficulty, vocal injury, panic symptoms, and post-traumatic activation
Power dynamics: The person with no voice is framed as aggressive — while the aggressors remain unnamed
Institutional failure: Refusal to understand trauma as physiological; refusal to recognise tone as violence
Unacceptable conduct: Penalising someone for resisting verbal engagement when verbal engagement is itself the harm
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because asserting medical boundaries isn’t rudeness.
Because writing down the names of hostile behaviors doesn’t make you difficult — it makes you a record-keeper.
Because when institutions pretend they don’t know why someone can’t breathe, the archive will remind them:
You knew.
You were told.
You were catalogued.
This wasn’t a complaint. It was a classification.
IV. Violations
Equality Act 2010, Section 20 – failure to implement reasonable adjustments, including verbal-exempt access
Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 3 & 8 – degrading treatment; psychological and physiological violation of bodily autonomy
Social Work England Professional Standards, 1.3, 5.1 – failure to do no harm; failure to prevent distress
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, Section 2 – emotional and respiratory health risks ignored by professionals
V. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept that kindness must be earned through calmness when calmness is physically impossible.
We do not accept that “communication” means submission.
We do not accept that institutions can cause injury with a tone and then claim innocence with a shrug.
This wasn’t about hostility.
This was about health.
And it is now documented — with clinical precision.
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