Victory For Thousands Of Women In State Pension Scandal

An ombudsman has ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was too slow to tell thousands of women that they would be affected by the rising pension age.

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) said the department failed to respond fast enough once it knew a significant proportion of women were oblivious of the changes.

The 1995 Pensions Act equalised the state pension age for men and women, and the ombudsman said it had received a significant number of complaints about the way this was communicated by the DWP.

It said that numerous women said that they were not aware of the changes, and encountered significant monetary loss and emotional suffering.

The PHSO said that from 2005 onwards, there were failings in the action taken by the DWP to communicate the state pension age.

The ombudsman said its investigation would go on to examine the impact those failings had and make recommendations to put things right for any associated injustice.

This year, thousands of women have been due a windfall after administration errors dating back 30 years saw their state pensions substantially underpaid.

Amanda Amroliwala, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman CEO, said that after a thorough investigation, they discovered that the DWP failed to respond fast enough once they knew that a significant proportion of women were not aware of changes to their state pension age and that these women should have been written to at least 28 months earlier than they were.

And that they would now examine the impact of those failings, and what action should be taken to address them.

Angela Madden, who chairs the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign, told the BBC that the findings strengthened what they, sadly, knew all along. That the DWP failed to adequately inform 3.8 million 1950s born women that their state pension age would be increasing.

She said that these women have been waiting for countless years for compensation and they couldn’t wait any longer and that they were calling on the government to agree to fair and adequate compensation rather than allow what has become a vicious cycle of government inaction to continue.

The PHSO provides a complaint handling service for issues about the NHS in England and UK Government agencies.

A DWP spokesperson said that both the High Court and Court of Appeal have supported the actions of the DWP, under successive governments dating back to 1995, and the Supreme Court refused the claimants permission to appeal.

It’s a great job by everyone involved but I bet our repugnant government will still fail to pay these women because they don’t want to pay up and they will probably use every delay tactic to avoid doing so, or they will try to delay until every one of those women has died.

Many women didn’t get a letter from the DWP about the rise in their state pension age, and when they did receive, or if they did get a letter about their pension, which was due to start in July 2020, having waited an additional 5 years and 10 months, and having paid in 48 years of National Insurance, they phoned the DWP and were told there was an error on the system whereby they’d somehow been left off the mailing list. Most of these women were told by word of mouth, but not by the DWP!

This was a contractual change to women’s pension arrangements and each woman should have been sent a statement and letter of notification of changes to the terms and conditions.

The Day Of The Jackal Novelist Frederick Forsyth

The clever plot has gripped readers and film aficionados for half a century.

At the heart of Frederick Forsyth’s masterpiece, The Day Of The Jackal, is a notorious fraud that revealed how anyone could apply for a birth certificate and passport in the name of a dead child.

But on the 50th anniversary of the thriller, Frederick Forsyth has thrown one more incredible twist into the drama by revealing that he stole a dead boy’s name and details to prove to himself the storyline could work in real life.

Just as the fictional Jackal assumes the identity of a dead boy in his attempt to assassinate the President of France, so Frederick Forsyth scoured a graveyard for the names of suitable children.

Having found one, the author then obtained a birth certificate and applied for a passport in the name of a boy called Duggan, later used in his best-seller.

Frederick Forsyth admits that it was totally illegal and that he did precisely what the Jackal did. He said, he found the grave of this little boy, James Oliver Duggan, in a churchyard in the Home Counties.

Frederick Forsyth also gave a bogus witness to support his application. He said he just invented a church minister in North Wales, somewhere where he thought the Passport Office wouldn’t bother to check.

He said that all of it went into the package, along with the fee and the birth certificate for a person who no longer existed because he’d died as a child.

He said that he used a local news agent as a poste restante, asking him if he’d be so kind, for a modest fee, to take in his mail while he was away overseas. Then Forsyth, who wasn’t going anywhere, waited and around two weeks later, there it was. A large package with a passport in it in the name of James Oliver Duggan.

He said he never used it internationally, but he tested the system and it worked.

The writer got the idea from West Africa where he’d been reporting on the Biafran War. He was told about it by a white mercenary who was there on fake documents.

The Jackal Fraud has been a topic of huge debate, notably when it surfaced that members of the Metropolitan Police had used the identities of dead children to infiltrate protest groups.

Of course, there’s no reason that a dead child should be exploited for any reason, but of course, it happens all the time, and numerous writers go to places no sane person would. I guess it’s part of the undertaking of the job. For instance, J R Tolkien served in the army in the First World War, notable in the Battle of the Somme.

And many writers will go and interview Serial Killers. It’s that touch of darkness that makes them exceptional writers, the question is, does life imitate art, or does art imitate life?

Most of us like a bit of escapism from the trials and tribulations of real life, and of course, to write a superb thriller you have to have a slightly darker side to your personality.

Frederick Forsyth infused his written work with intensity and excitement. The quarry and the prey always suspenseful, and the assassin, well-bred but devoid of scruples, meeting a bloody end – it was the novel everyone dreamed about writing.

Tobacco Colossus Philip Morris Will Cease Marketing Cigarettes In Britain Within The Next Ten Years

Tobacco giant Philip Morris International will quit selling cigarettes in Britain within the next ten years, its boss has announced.

The move will bring down the curtain on the iconic Marlboro name after more than a century on British shop racks.

Chief executive Jacek Olczak told a newspaper outlet that the plans were part of Philip Morris International’s initiative to phase out traditional cigarette smoking in the United Kingdom.

Those who want to continue smoking will be encouraged to change to modern alternatives such as e-cigarettes or heated tobacco devices, which are deemed less dangerous.

Jacek Olczak said that they want to enable the company to leave smoking behind and that he believed that in the United Kingdom, ten years from now maximum, that smoking could be effectively solved.

Asked if that meant Philip Morris would cease selling traditional cigarettes in the United Kingdom inside that time, he responded that they could.

Jacek Olczak said the Marlboro name will disappear from Britain, and that the first option for customers would be that they quit smoking, but that if they don’t, then the second-best thing would be to shift to the better alternatives.

The Government has set out a plan for Britain to go smoke-free by 2030, which incorporates a strategy to lessen the prevalence of cigarette smoking amongst different age groups.

Now let’s ban alcohol, that will help an abundance of problems.

And if Brits can’t get cigarettes here in the United Kingdom, they will get them on the black market.

Of course, smoking tobacco is a choice, like drinking alcohol, doing drugs, speeding in your vehicle or eating fatty fast food, but of course, your freedom of choice has a direct impact on those around you, so your freedom of choice takes away their freedom of choice, but what next that’s no good for you, caffeine?

And there is an argument to this. The government and people condemn smokers, they’ve tried to stamp out smokers who pay exorbitant amounts of tax on a packet of cigarettes, but they don’t really discourage people who drink alcohol, with the abuse of alcohol up and down the country using up valuable resources, for instance, the police, ambulance crews, how much is that costing the taxpayer? We certainly don’t see people lighting up a cigarette getting into fights and having accidents in their cars.

Sadly, smoking releases serotonin-like chemicals like the bodies reward system, so it becomes an enjoyment. The downside is that it does affect the organs and that’s the true cost of smoking. It’s not an illusion, but a biological consequence of why people find it so difficult to quit.

There’s no guarantee that you’re going to live a long life if you stop smoking. There are many other maladies out that that could kill you off and probably will. I would rather live an enjoyable life, not losing my memory and then being put in a home that stinks like pee and being talked to like a child.

Yes, smoking can be offensive to others that don’t smoke, and of course, the smell, but I would rather hang out with a smoker than a drunk because alcohol causes so much harm.

Police Outrage Over Pay Freeze Could See Officers Enforce A Go-Slow

Federation leaders have warned that police anger over a pay freeze could see officers enforce a go-slow on 999 calls or abandon their guns on VIP duty.

The Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents 130,000 rank and file officers, said last week that it had no confidence in the Home Secretary Priti Patel after she declined to finance a yearly pay increase.

Banned from strike action by law, officers are enraged that other public servants such as firefighters and NHS staff have been given increases.

They’re now considering work to rule measures such as an overtime ban, armed officers handing back firearms to return to normal policing or patrols driving inside speed limits to answer emergency calls.

Ken Marsh, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, told a newspaper outlet that if they want to keep exploiting people, they’re going to come unstuck in the end and that they’ve got to that point now.

He said, why are the fire brigade worthy of a 1.5 per cent pay increase and the police don’t justify anything? The answer was that they could go on strike, they’ve got a union and they’ve got power.

He said that they’ve had a six per cent pay rise in 10 years, and he said that there are hundreds and hundreds of armed officers in London who look after every MP and that they don’t have to do that. They’re not forced to carry a gun, they can say that they want to go back to the borough tomorrow, see you later, and hand in their blue ticket, but that they protect everything.

Ken Marsh continued, who tells an officer they have to drive a car as fast as they can and put their life on the line to get to a call? They don’t have to do that, they can go at 30 mph.

He said, who tells an officer they have to come in an hour before they’re meant to commence work and usually they stay half an hour after? It’s called goodwill and it’s what they do, but that everything’s on the table now.

Officers are organising a day of action on Tuesday in Whitehall, where they will present a petition to Chancellor Rishi Sunak at No 11.

Labour’s Jacqui Smith was the only other Home Secretary to face a Police Federation supported vote of no confidence by police when she refused to backdate a pay award, but then politicians intoxicated on power appear to screw up everything they put their hands on, including the police who protect them and their electorate.

And many of our politicians aren’t there for the politics, they’re there for the pay, pensions, perks, power and unfettered access to taxpayer-funded expenses trough, and then when they’re faced with a national emergency, they fall to pieces because they’ve no idea what to do or how to cope.

To be fair, the police are scarcely a quarter of the staffing levels they used to be, so how can they possibly do the job without the numbers? And however bad things are, they can always get more serious.

The police have been consistently underfunded, cut, reduced and left without inadequate resources to do their jobs properly after a decade of Tory administration, so next time you need help, don’t call them, they probably won’t respond, and if they went any slower, they would be going backwards.

Pingdemic Has Put Almost One In Five Met Police Officers Off Duty

Almost one in five Metropolitan Police officers are currently absent from work after being ordered to self-isolate amid pingdemic chaos.

About 17 per cent of the force’s officers are currently self-isolating, the highest since the start of the pandemic.

Police were made exempt from self-isolation on Thursday, but only if their employers specified their names and they were double jabbed against COVID 19.

Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation Ken Marsh said the force was massively struggling, and that they were not performing the role properly. That they were not offered the jab and now they’ve got almost one in five officers off sick or self-isolating.

He told a newspaper outlet that it’s coming home to roost and the Government is going to come unstuck.

The government on Thursday announced a listing of exemptions for key workers in energy, waste, water, food supply and production.

Police, border officers, train and lorry drivers were attached to the list on Friday evening.

Workers who avoid self-isolation after contact with someone who has COVID will instead be tested every day, enabling them to keep working given the tests remain negative.

The Government on Saturday said in a statement that an expected initial additional 200 testing sites would be opened so that daily contact testing could be rolled out to further critical workplaces in England.

But currently, about 2.3 million people from critical areas and jobs have been forced into isolation due to being pinged.

It’s understood Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to open more testing sites so more industries can be added to the exemption list in the coming weeks.

He previously said people who’ve been double vaccinated would be exempt from self-isolation after August 16, provided they have a test.

More than a million people have been told to self-isolate by the NHS COVID app in recent weeks, with 618,903 alerts sent in the week ending July 14.

The toll is a 17 per cent rise on the preceding seven and another record high.

The app has created extensive chaos, but it was claimed on Saturday the system causing the problem couldn’t be terminated because there wasn’t enough testing capability to allow the test and release method to take over.

There’s been a rising demand for weeks on the government to tweak the responsiveness of the app or make exceptions for key workers and fully vaccinated Britons following warnings that it could lead to food deficits and major disruptions as the pandemic develops.

Sadly offenders and villains aren’t self-isolating, which is putting a strain on the police force, and they aren’t coping very well with this pingdemic.

So, now it’s ‘Hello boss, I’ve been pinged, see you in ten days.’

Not that anyone will notice because our police force doesn’t seem to apprehend perpetrators anymore, and let’s face it, you can’t miss what you never see.

Anyone stupid enough to have the app on their phone, clearly isn’t very bright, and it beggars belief how many are playing along, but then I suppose it’s more about having a break than fearing the COVID 19 spikes since so many people allowed a substance to be injected into their body that hasn’t been thoroughly tested.

So, if you want a week off work, just do the following. Install the app, mingle in public, and then sit back and unwind as you wait for your phone to ping – I can see that being an attractive proposition for some.

Stonehenge Could Be Next To Lose UNESCO World Heritage Status

Ministers have been told that Stonehenge could become the latest heritage site in the United Kingdom to lose its UNESCO status as a £1.7 billion Government plan to build a new road and tunnel there could endanger its antiquity.

The world’s most recognisable rock monument, in Salisbury, is expected to be next in line to face the axe from the UN-backed agency who are said to be contemplating putting it on its in danger list.

Stonehenge Avebury and Associated Sites were granted UNESCO World Heritage Status in 1986, meaning it has cultural, historical, or scientific value deemed to be of exceptional significance to humanity.

But a Government-backed plot for a new project to build a tunnel under Stonehenge could see Stonehenge denuded of its status.

£1.7 billion plans from the Transport Secretary to turn eight miles of the A303 into a dual carriageway, with a two-mile tunnel, was given the go-ahead in November 2020.

It comes as Liverpool leaders had earlier blasted UNESCO bureaucrats on the other side of the world who removed the city’s World Heritage Site status after a covert ballot vote, and Chris Blanford, chief of World Heritage UK, accused ministers of showing a great reluctance to want to make the most of their World Heritage offer.

He told a newspaper outlet that these are places of international significance and that they were the best of our cultural heritage, and that at a time when we’re out of the EU and wanted to be taken seriously, why not use these incredible assets of such significance to help us do that?

The committee behind UNESCO’s heritage committee has warned ministers that Stonehenge will be relegated to its danger list if proposals for the £1.7 billion tunnel moves ahead.

It comes after Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, ignored planning inspectors and approved a tunnel to turn the A303 into a dual carriageway that runs for two miles under Stonehenge.

The UNESCO heritage committee said the planned tunnel length remained inadequate to preserve the outstanding universal value.

Instead, the organisation proposed a longer tunnel with an entrance and exit far enough away from Stonehenge to prevent a highly adverse and irreversible impact.

Protesters are also fighting the Government’s plan, as a panel of expert inspectors recommended development approval be delayed because the project would substantially and permanently harm the integrity and authenticity of the site.

Anyone involved in the building of this stupendous tunnel beneath this historical site should be put on trial for gross vandalism.

But it’s Grant Shapps and this tunnel that could destroy Stonehenge, and even his planning inspectorate warned against it, saying it could cause substantial damage, but then his ego is more important than any expert advice, but that’s a typical arrogant politician for you.

Stonehenge is possibly the world’s most well-known prehistoric monument, and it was created in several stages. The first monument was an early henge monument, built approximately 5,000 years ago and the unique stone circle was constructed in the late Neolithic period around 2500 BC.

And for a small number of jumped up overpaid bureaucrats to suddenly act as if they own the planets heritage sites seems a bit pompous, and the world would be better off if these people put their combined wages together so that they could hire people to look after these heritage sites, rather than paying for suits to exist purely to cast judgement.

Unexploded Bomb Sparks Chaos

A major incident was reported with roads closed and no-fly zones instated after a live World War II bomb was found on a new housing estate.

The 500lb explosive, which was set to be safely discharged by ordnance specialists, was uncovered by construction workers at The Greenways housing development in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire.

A large police cordon was set up around the device, with parts of the M52 and nearby roads closed as the ordeal looked set to ensure travel chaos for much of the day.

Humberside Police said neighbours in Rawcliffe Road had been urged to vacate the area as a precaution, and residents living in the immediate neighbourhood were advised to remain indoors, while businesses inside the cordoned-off area were asked to temporarily close.

The east and westbound carriageways of the M62, between J35 and J37, alongside a section of the A614, had been closed since 8 pm on Friday, July 23.

A statement on Humberside Police’s website read that colleagues from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, who’d been onsite, had now established that the device was live and that they were making plans to safely discharge the bomb, and that all persons in the immediate neighbourhood had been evacuated as a precaution.

The people that dropped the bomb obviously didn’t know that it might explode 80 years later. Although it’s not exploded for 80 years, so it’s debatable whether it will explode now – not worth taking the gamble though, just in case it’s not a dud, and I certainly wouldn’t want to be digging it out to take a look to see if it’s a goer – anybody want to volunteer?

If it didn’t work when it was dropped out of a plane 80 years ago, then it probably isn’t going to work now until the ammunitions specialists get there and put plastic explosives around it and blow it up.

Now it’s all just drama and we have a no-fly zone for a bomb. Health and safety gone mad again, but it was once seemingly safe enough to drop it from an aircraft, although when it was dropped from an aircraft the intention was that it would explode.

I guess there’s no real harm done because the bomb disposal team will have it sorted out, and there’s probably far more unexploded bombs in Europe, probably spread around Germany and France, and if they do go off, perhaps it will remind them to be nice to us.

They said that an unexploded bomb caused chaos, very climactic, next they’ll be telling us that the International Space Station was re-routed!

And we would never cope today with what people coped with during World War II and rationing lasting for a decade after – good job they’d not heard of Mental Health.

Woman, 33, With Learning Problems Died Of Neglect

A coroner heard how a 33-year-old woman with learning difficulties died after suffering neglect as her devoted family fought to cope with her needs.

Kerry Warren, who lived in Newstead, Stoke on Trent with her sister and mother Tracey, needed help with basic tasks and would get distressed or aggressive if somebody tried to help her against her will.

A coroner was told her parents would give in to her wishes and let her exist on a junk food diet, including chocolate, cake and chips.

The extreme lack of nutrients led to Kerry Warren developing a stem cell disorder, bone marrow failure and severe anaemia.

Kerry Warren had taken to sleeping on the sofa after refusing to go upstairs and her mother would sleep in a chair nearby, but on January 8, 2019, Mrs Warren woke to discover her daughter’s body on the floor, covered in a quilt.

She said that she shook Kerry to try to get her to respond, but got nothing, so she rang Kerry’s father Chris, who lived across the road, and he called 999 and began CPR.

The paramedics, who were unable to save her, then saw bruising on Kerry Warren which triggered a police inquiry into her death, and a report was given to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) but no further action was taken.

The bruising was old and Kerry Warren’s family said it was caused by their attempts to hold her down when she became violent.

The coroner heard she’d been allocated social workers and other expert help as a child and young adult, but Detective Constable David Stubbs said that there appeared to be a point when all support had stopped.

He found that Kerry Warren’s GP de-registered her when she didn’t reply to letters, which led to most of her medical records being lost because they weren’t transferred to electronic files.

It was only when a concerned housing officer visited the family’s home in 2016 that a new referral was made to adult social services.

Detective Constable David Stubbs said the housing officer felt that Mrs Warren was extremely loving towards Kerry, but couldn’t cope, and it was easier for her to give in to what Kerry wanted, instead of what she needed.

The inquest heard that the referral led to her being appointed a support worker, but the family didn’t go to any appointments and disengaged, so the support stopped in March 2017.

This is all very sad, but this regrettably happens all the time, and it doesn’t sound like the neglect was wilful, just a sad story all round, and it’s an all too familiar story with adults with a learning disability.

And many parents, particularly those with a learning disability themselves can’t handle challenging behaviour, and it’s just easier to give in, and they usually won’t ask for help as that’s seen as a failure, and when they do, it’s past crisis point, and sadly it’s a scenario that will continue to happen.

The fact that Kerry’s GP de-registered her without actually visiting to see the family himself, or get social services to intervene means that there wasn’t enough done for this unfortunate woman and her family, and they were neglected by the very people who were supposed to be supporting them, and it appears that services just dis-engage when it suits them.

Social services don’t seem to want to do anything and people are dying because of this, and this country is in dire straights, and it appears that nobody can see further than their own self-interest.

Yodel Manager, 56, Stole Phones Worth £24,000

A Yodel manager stole phones worth £24,000 in a bid to pay off a loan shark but was caught when bosses set up spy cameras at her office.

Julie Birchenough borrowed £1,000 from a lender she found in a newspaper advert, but when she was unable to repay the debt straight away, she was forced into a series of crimes.

Minshull Street Crown Court was told that the 56-year-old intercepted the devices at work as they were about to be sent out for distribution and then hid them in her vehicle.

She was busted when officials placed spy cameras at her Oldham office, which captured her stuffing two Huawei phones in a shoebox before taking them outside.

Thirteen other devices worth between £500 and £1,500 were retrieved from her home plus a notebook describing potential steal to orders. It’s deemed a sum of 24 phones were taken.

Inquiries unveiled that Julie Birchenough, who was entrusted with the safety of goods bought by shoppers online, had seriously got into debt with enormous interest repayments after she took out a payday loan to buy herself a car.

She declined to identify the loan shark but insisted she’d been pressured into stealing the phones to pay off her debts.

She’s since fled her home and got work in a fish and chip shop.

Investigators found no proof she’d been selling the phones herself online.

Julie Birchenough, now of Poulton-Le Flyde, Lancashire, admitted theft by employee and was sentenced to 12 months jail suspended for 18 months.

The crimes were detected in August 2019 after she’d been employed by Yodel as a security manageress for ten years.

Prosecutor Harriet Lavin said that her role was to manage the security team and maintain the safety of goods within the site, and she was employed to keep an eye on what people were doing, and there were stringent search regimes, however, the defendant was not subject to that as a security manager.

And in August 2019, another manager was made aware of a significant number of lost packages, and that the losses were high-value mobile phones priced between £500-£1,500.

From further inquiries, it became apparent that those losses had all come from one trailer on the shifts that the defendant was working in when she was managing. So, a secret camera was installed in the defendant’s office where it was reviewed with the defendant seen to be packing a huge amount of mobile phones in packaging before placing them in a cardboard shoebox.

And surely having a role as manager, she must have been smart enough to know that taking out loans from an advertisement in the paper leads to never-ending debt? Not quite what you’d call a criminal mastermind, was she?

She wasn’t pressured into anything – she took that path of crime because of her debt, and all because she wanted to buy a car. Now people have lost out and suffered because of her actions – perhaps she should have brought a bike?

However, these loan sharks prey on the weak, and the APR is just idiotic, but there wasn’t any actual proof that this alleged loan shark ever existed, other than Julie Birchenough’s word and the fact she wouldn’t name her partners in crime, which kind of makes you doubt her version of events unless of course, she was worried that there might be some sort of revenge and that she might be in some kind of danger.

Of course, the moral of the story is, don’t spend what you don’t have!

Man Is Branded Ridiculous

A man has been branded ridiculous for threatening to report his female neighbour for anti-social behaviour for sunbathing in a bikini in the communal garden.

The 29-year-old male resident, who lives in the United Kingdom, took to Reddit and explained how her lying half-naked outside the apartment looked tacky and said that it might result in the apartments losing their value.

Furious about the situation at hand, he went on to ask forum users whether he’d been unreasonable for telling the woman that the garden, which she believed was communal but he said was merely ornamental, wasn’t to be used in this way.

However, it wasn’t long before people leapt to the woman’s defence, with one writing that taking a photograph of a woman in a bikini and sharing it was more anti-social than sunbathing where she lived.

In the initial post, the man wrote that they’d been experiencing a heatwave for the last four days, and he’d noticed a woman sunbathing on the lawn.

He said that she brought a blanket and a book and was out there for hours, reading in a bikini top and shorts and that on the first day, he asked her if she lived in the building and she said that she did, having recently moved in.

He said that later on, he saw her access the building with keys so he didn’t think that she was lying, but that she was out there from 10 am till 4 pm. He continued that he saw her again and let her know that the gardens weren’t to be used in that way.

The man, who said the grounds were extensive and maintained, went on to explain that in his two years of living there, he’d never once seen anyone use the grounds as if was their own personal space.

He chose to take the matter one step further by taking a photo of the woman in her bikini from his apartment window, before posting it in the local WhatsApp group to remind others to call out this anti-social behaviour.

However, he explained the move proved controversial, adding that some residents agreed but others said he was being weird.

To make matters worse, the woman in question was also added into the group chat, leading her to respond that she wasn’t going to stay inside in 30c heat when she has green space right outside.

This man needs to get a life of his own.

The woman was only sunbathing, and it’s not as if she was doing anybody any harm, but of course, you can’t seem to do anything without offending someone, and the world is getting ridiculous.

And the man comes across as being a bit of an oddball – disturbing behaviour taking a photograph of the woman. Now I’d call that very anti-social behaviour.

It’s a communal garden, which means that everyone can use it unless of course, the tenancy says differently.

So, in essence, a fruitcake makes himself look bad on Reddit because he didn’t like any degree of exposure! And taking photographs of people and posting them on the internet without their consent is never okay.

This seems more like voyeurism if he’s taking clandestine photographs of the woman in her bikini, and his judgemental disposition seems far more offensive.

Unless there’s something in the tenancy that has been set she’s entitled to use the communal garden. As for the bikini, I’m guessing this man doesn’t go to the beach or swimming pool et cetera so that he can avoid such attire.

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