⟡ “Apparently I’m Not Allowed to Work, Live, or Breathe”: Harassment, Mould, and the Bureaucratic Sabotage of Survival ⟡
When a disabled woman tries to work, social services deliver gas leaks and silence.
Filed: 12 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/DISCRIM-077
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Email to Westminster City Council alleging housing-related discrimination and obstruction of employment through systemic harassment and unsafe accommodation.
I. What Happened
On 14 December 2024, Polly Chromatic emailed Westminster City Council officers Kirsty Hornal and Sarah Newman. Her message was succinct, furious, and irrefutably clear: she had been harassed, bullied, and obstructed by the very systems meant to safeguard her. Hospitals mistreated her. Social workers failed her. The Council, allegedly supporting her, created conditions under which employment — and survival — became impossible.
She stated plainly: she cannot live in mould-infested housing or in properties with sewer gas leaks. These are not preferences. They are public health mandates. She should be working — and would be — if not for the state-sanctioned sabotage that made her sick and destabilised her home.
The Council did not reply. The silence was deafening — and consistent.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Disability discrimination via environmental health neglect
Constructive interference with the claimant’s ability to work
Repeated exposure to uninhabitable housing conditions
Obstruction of employment through systemic medical harassment
Institutional complicity in a cycle of enforced dependency
This wasn’t accommodation. It was containment.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because breathing is not optional.
Because no disabled person should be punished for attempting to work — or for refusing to live in rot and methane.
Because Westminster City Council has perfected the art of saying nothing while authorising everything.
Because systems that force sick women to choose between employment and oxygen are not just broken — they are engineered that way.
SWANK files this to ensure it is remembered — not as a grievance, but as evidence.
IV. SWANK’s Position
This was not a request. It was a warning.
This was not support. It was interference disguised as help.
This wasn’t housing. It was harm.
SWANK does not accept civic neglect recast as public service. Nor do we accept bureaucrats who install hazard, then blame the resident for being “too ill” to function.
We document every toxin, every non-response, every obstruction masquerading as policy.
When the system poisons your air, SWANK provides the oxygen.
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