🖋️ SWANK Black Paper | June 2024
We Do Not Consent to Babysitting by State Surveillance Officers
Dispatch from Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2 — By Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Harassment by Conference, Home Education Discrimination, Medical Disregard, SW Misconduct
Let it be known across this mouldy kingdom that the Chromatic children remain impeccably mannered, scholastically advanced, and spiritually sovereign—despite repeated attempts by the State to provoke, gaslight, and diminish their mother.
I attended yet another Review Child Protection Conference, presided over by Gabby Bernard, who has now replaced the mysteriously departed Layla. A revolving door of chairs, as if the problem is in the upholstery rather than the script.
This gathering—like the one before and the one before that—was not a conference. It was theatre. Bad theatre. Low-budget, high-surveillance bureaucratic performance art in which every line is delivered in monotone:
"We're not saying there's a concern. But there has been a pattern of professionals being concerned..."
Translation: No actual evidence. Just a decade of murmurs and innuendo paraded as concern.
I, Polly Chromatic, formerly known in courtrooms and crisis meetings as “Noelle,” asked the same clarifying question I’ve asked since 2015:
What, exactly, is the risk of harm to my children?
And again, they could not answer—because there is none.
Instead, they offered a litany of non-events, including that I did not participate verbally in a previous meeting (due to severe asthma, as medically documented). Now, having spoken with “clarity” and “engagement,” the goalposts have moved again. I’m now too resistant, too fixed, too disagreeable.
This is the new authoritarian metric for “risk”: You do not believe your children are at risk.
In fact, I was scolded for not trusting the very professionals who have spent ten years constructing a case around shadows. My refusal to submit to coerced therapy, unspecified allegations, or unlawful surveillance is deemed mental illness by default.
🕯️ Meanwhile, the record reflects:
All four children are polite, healthy, bonded, and thriving in home education
GP Dr Reid confirmed regular care and follow-ups for asthma
Children’s extracurricular activities include kickboxing, yoga, AI coding, swimming, archery, and pottery
The Elective Home Education assessment deemed their programme appropriate and sufficient
And yet the plan continues. Why?
Because I am not broken. Because I write, speak, and document too well. Because I resist manipulation with evidence. Because I have no criminal record, no mental health diagnosis, and no visible subservience.
And so—like every good authoritarian regime—Westminster Children’s Services clings to the fiction of concern in the absence of wrongdoing. It is not care. It is containment.
They do not seek child safety. They seek mother silence.
And to that I say:
My voice is not your documentation. It is your cross-examination.
Conference Attendees of Note:
Gabby Bernard (Chair)
Edward Kendall (Social Worker)
Rachel Pullen (Manager)
Philip Reid (GP)
Janet West-Jones (Police)
Gideon Mpalanyi (Home Education)
Laura Jennings (Solicitor)
🗓️ Next Core Group: 16 July 2024
🗓️ Next Conference: 20 November 2024
📍Venue: 215 Lisson Grove NW8
📮 Filed from Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
✒️ By: Polly Chromatic
Labels: Home Education, Harassment by Social Services, Misuse of Mental Health Allegations, Chronic Illness Discrimination, Child Protection Overreach, No Risk Identified, Evidence Refused, Medical Sovereignty