I'M 70 YEARS OF AGE AND 2016 HAVE BEEN THE WORST YEAR IN MY WHOLE LIFE!!!

Yes, it's been a very stressful, anxious, painful and frustrating year for me. It started November 2015 and I'm still going through it and there's no end in sight.  I have never experienced anything like it throughout those 70 years.  I've been through 2 failed marriages and they haven't affected me half as much as this present experience.  And this is caused by the very same people/organisation that supposes to be protecting and looking after our wellbeing - well at least I thought so.  It wasn't the sort of treatment I was expecting, so I put all my trust and hope in them, but they've knocked me for 6...  It has affected me so much that I now have to seek councilling.

I have always been a caring, helpful, thoughtful, considerate, happy person, and have always put others first...  But, I will never be that same person I was because this experience has left me numb and has thought me a vital lesson...  It has made me an angry and hard person, and I'll never put anyone before myself again!

Join us here > https://www.change.org/p/sick-to-the-stomach-government-local-authorities-not-doing-enough?recruiter=546827108&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink  too and give us your support.

Join us at https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/mycampaign

Thanks to all 29 of you (so far) that have signed the petition - most appreciated.  Share the campaign anywhere and to anyone you can.  We need 100 signatures (more the better). And remember; what has happened to me can happen to you too if the government/councils don't start building accommodations for its people.  This has already happened to my friend (who works for the establishment) so even the establishment workers are not safe.  This friend told me at the beginning of my fight; if a council officer is found to be dishonest...they will get the sack/fired.  I disagreed with her; and now she sees what they have done to me and what I'm still going through, she's shocked...

My new year's resolution is to continue my fight... Even if it means taking the council to court. So, damn their own biased regulations, which they used to justify their own deliberate cover up of their HMO fire doors noise.

My HMO neighbour tenants were up all night 'til the early hours of this morning creating noise with those fire doors (like they do most weekends).  It was 4 pm when I put my earplugs in and shut my bedroom door on the opposite side of the party wall, and they were still up making noises.  And now at 12.30 pm and they'll be asleep 'til around 2 pm.  Because I can hear even the slightest bangs from fire doors and their talking so loud and clearly, (because of these poorly constructed prefabricated ex- council houses) I'm thinking...well, if I can hear them that loud and clearly, then probably they can hear me too; (but, I haven't got those bloody fire doors...!!!).  So consciously I'll close my ordinary doors quietly and creep around my house so not to disturb them.  Some people told me I should do the same to them as they are doing to me.  But I'm not that kind of person, and I know what it feels like having to put up with their noise.  Also, they are so inconsiderate, they will take revenge and deliberately make noises even worse just to get back at me.  This is about 4 young men, roughly between the ages of 18 and 24 I'm talking about  that don't give a shit, because they know they have the council on their side) let loose in a house my themselves with (5) heavy hydraulic spring fire doors and (1) extra main entrance door in a poorly constructed prefabricated ex- council house!  But, on the other hand, they are not really the ones to blame for these noises - it rests squarely in the hands of the council!

Modelling Scams about, people! Be aware!!!

What's the difference between a modelling agency and a model management?

My friend has been trying to get her daughter on modelling agencies books, but found out there are lots of scams in this field - just after your money...  What I found out; lots of model managements, etc are fooling people by passing themselves off as modelling agencies when actually they're not - where they don't actually find work for models.

My friend was scammed (over-charged) by a modelling management for taking her 14-year old daughter’s photographs.  But I went to her aid and got most of the money back and out of the contract, after sharing bad reviews about them and that they have been in trouble with the law before over similar scams.

And another one tried a similar scam to get money out of her by inviting her and daughter to their studio for photo test shoot to see how she will perform in front of a camera and the possibility of putting her daughter on their books and was told; there wouldn’t be any charges whatsoever for their service.  But after she’d forked out for herself and daughter’s train fares to the studio in London the test-shoot didn’t happen. The photographer looked at her daughter’s portfolio (photos were professionally taken by the over-charged management above) then said; the photos weren’t good enough…, therefore wanted her to pay him to have his own photos taken of her daughter.  But I’d advised her that they may try just that to try and get money from her; and if they do, don’t succumb to it.  She didn’t succumb…so that’s why they didn’t do test-shoot of her daughter; so sent them away feeling disappointed and shocked; plus, losing money for train fares and a wasted journey.

MP/s & Councillor/s. Can't they really help, or it's just that they're not interested?

I contacted the Liberal and Labour Councillor and they all are the same... I wonder exactly what they do and can do! Because, from the feedback I've been getting from all of them, neither of them can't do anything to help me. I've even written to the Lords, but I was told there too, to escalate my complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman - that they are the only people/organisation that have powers over the council. But I got another bigger shock when I found out the LGO took the council's side even though the council is wrong. The LGO didn't even do their own independent investigation, they just looked at the council's report and agreed with everything the council stated, even where the council is wrong. None of what I stated was taken any notice of, nor acknowledge - it was just as though I didn't send anything to them. The LGO investigator didn't even contact me for further evidence to support my complaint against the council. In fact, she didn't even inform me when she'd completed the investigation until nearly 2 months later when I contacted them to find out why I wasn't contacted for more evidence to support my case. All this I sent to my MP, but he didn't even bat an eyelid to any of it. What I've seen from the LGO decision is; the council is right even though they are wrong, and I'm wrong, even though I'm right. I'm told that the situation I'm in, is not just the council at fault; it's mainly the government because it's the government's HMO scheme (a substitute for lack of building council homes) and the (Labour) council is just carrying out the (Tory) government's orders. Therefore, I can see why this Tory MP is not interested in helping me out.

What is an MP's responsibility in regards to a constituent in the community?

We have a Tory MP for my area and he's been completely useless in helping me with an HMO situation that his government and the local council forced upon me. People keep saying if you have a problem you should contact your MP, but they, (well mine) don't seem to do or want to do anything at all. I'm beginning to wonder if they only take any action when there are a vast amount of people complaining about a situation at one time - say signing a petition or loads of letters. I wonder what we have them for! If ever I end up in another situation and I'm told to contact my MP, I will just say; WHO?