⟡ A Timeline of Polite Coercion: RBKC and the Art of Institutional Smothering ⟡
Filed: 17 November 2022
Reference: SWANK/RBKC/2022-TIMELINE-WEDGEBULL
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I. Welcome to Politeness as Policy
This document is not an email thread.
It is a procedural novella written in faux-concern and administrative breathlessness.
Its cast includes:
Eric Wedge-Bull, Advanced Practitioner and patron saint of overfriendly pressure
Milena Abdula-Gomes, social work student and uninvited houseguest-in-waiting
Annabelle Kapoor, headteacher turned emotional hostage negotiator
Across 22 pages of timestamped theatre, a pattern emerges:
“Take care” means: we’re watching
“Just checking in” means: why won’t you comply?
“Warmest regards” means: we’re escalating
II. The Misuse of Courtesy as Institutional Disguise
RBKC’s Family Services wrote repeatedly, empathetically, and endlessly:
After you were hospitalised
While you were breathless
In breach of your disability adjustments
And with zero procedural basis for involvement
They were not protecting children.
They were protecting a narrative — one in which you were fragile, unpredictable, and needing to be monitored.
This timeline logs every act of rhetorical smothering:
The false empathy.
The deliberate misreading of refusal as confusion.
The staged offers of “support” which were, in fact, soft surveillance.
III. Why SWANK Filed This
Because polite retaliation is still retaliation.
Because “supportive tone” does not override unlawful contact.
Because no one should be pressured into verbal contact while recovering from medical harm, just to pacify institutional insecurity.
This timeline was published not because it’s unusual — but because it is exactly how safeguarding misuse sounds.
Read it. Then ask:
If it wasn’t misconduct — why does it need so much charm?
IV. Filing Notes
Communication adjustment ignored
Health status repeatedly downplayed
Multiple unlawful home visit attempts
Emotional manipulation masked as “relationship-building”
False representation of consent to meetings
Written requests converted into verbal coercion
Let the record show:
This is what it looks like before the supervision order arrives.
This is how institutions behave before retaliation becomes formal.
This is how they write — when they still think you’ll never publish.