“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

Chromatic v Westminster (Tolerance as Rhetoric; Safeguarding as Prejudice; Colonial Politeness as Persecution)


ADDENDUM: ON THE MYTH OF BRITISH TOLERANCE

A Mirror Court Indictment of Colonial Residue, Intersectional Prejudice, and Bureaucratic Politeness as Persecution

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I. What Happened

For ten years my family has been surveilled, assessed, and restricted under the banner of safeguarding. What is marketed abroad as tolerance, in practice, unravelled into hostility toward difference — national, cultural, medical.

II. What the Addendum Establishes

  • False Branding – The projection of tolerance collapses under scrutiny.

  • Cultural Prejudice – Suspicion of an American mother with international children.

  • Disability Discrimination – My asthma and dysphonia weaponised.

  • Systemic Retaliation – Empty assessments as punishment for dissent.

  • Historical Continuity – Colonial reflex: disciplining foreign mothers, enforcing conformity.

  • Intersectional Discrimination – Punished for being American, disabled, a single mother, and a homeschooling parent.

III. Consequences

  • Britain’s tolerance revealed as hollow marketing.

  • Safeguarding converted into persecution.

  • Children’s welfare subordinated to bureaucratic prejudice.

  • Proportionality abandoned: Re B-S (2013) ignored.

  • Children’s right to identity under UNCRC Article 8 denied.

  • Public funds squandered, reputation degraded abroad.

  • SWANK Catalogue ensures international visibility; Britain’s hypocrisy logged globally.

IV. Legal and Doctrinal Violations

  • Equality Act 2010 – discriminatory treatment on nationality and disability.

  • Article 14, ECHR – non-discrimination breached.

  • Articles 6 & 8, ECHR – fairness and family life denied.

  • UNCRC, Articles 2, 3 & 8 – rights to non-discrimination, best interests, and identity ignored.

  • Children Act 1989, s.22 – welfare principle violated.

  • Re B-S (2013) – necessity and proportionality discarded.

  • A v United Kingdom (ECHR) – systemic bias recognised; my case fits the pattern.

V. SWANK’s Position

The Mirror Court records that British tolerance is a myth.

What is exported as openness is internally bureaucratic suspicion cloaked in politeness. My case reveals colonial residue masquerading as care: intolerance of difference, retaliation against dissent, and erasure of identity.

This is not anomaly but archetype: rhetoric abroad, prejudice at home.

Closing Declaration

The Mirror Court declares:
Britain’s tolerance ends where difference begins.
A decade of persecution is what “tolerance” has meant in practice.

Filed by:
Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd
Mother and Litigant in Person

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