Threats to set fire to house with us in it

 This was last night around 9pm, my neighbour in flat C above me 

I phoned police and they came down here but didnt arrest her and today i am very wary. do i take her threats seriously? im unsure if go out if i will come back to a house on fire, she is i believe being protected. 

This happened sun 7 Nov 2021

a previous recording of the same neighbour and me arguing

the video is 2:42 long PH lovely, it is fantastic that ME this is PH from upstairs PH everybody works but you Me look PH you are the only one [I got upset at this point as she keeps making remarks about me not being in employment] Me shut the f&&k up PH come out Me yeah PH Come on Me yeah you bitch 0:21 PH come out because I'm recording Me yeah ??? PH you are getting thrown out 0:26 Me listen to the bitch PH get you thrown out ?? Me listen to her shes ?? [she backed away from me down the stairs as I went towards her] Me you are running away PH?? Me oh yeah 0:35 PH every time I come in here I record it as I'm coming in and ???? Me oh right PH they can hear it you fool Me right right so they can hear you slamming the door did they 0:47 PH ugly bitch, you are an unemployed bum Me an unemployed bum 0:54 PH and you should have been a stlll born, you should have been Me I should have been a still born 0:58 PH f££king horrible, ugly, vile, nasty piece of sh3t all you do is complain about people, all you do is harass them, all you do is hurt other people 1:11PH all you do is sit indoors and get your computer out and you can't work but you can ride a bike, you can use your computer but you can complain and you can [she moves back again when i moved towards her whilst she is shouting "come on come on"] Me yeah you bitch PH Come on [she is performing now with the "come on come on" whilst moving/running away from me] PH come on out of here 1:33 PH come on lets ?? Me ??? Note: I think we where both in the downstairs communal hallway at this point with her having opened the front door and standing outside on the door step shouting at me] 1:36 PH you nasty piece of shit Me ??? PH ?? horrible, you are vile [Note: The bang you can hear at 1:42 is me slamming the door on her [she is outside on the door step with me still in the communal hallway] Me vile, nasty f££k off PH horrid ??? 1:48 PH all you do is moan, all you think off ??? thats all you do you??? ????? 2:00 ??? 2:20 PH vile ????? Me ????? PH ??? all you do is ?? people ??????? end

Mon Oct 18 2021

https://youtu.be/lbxt_44r4AI

11.31 long

auto transcript is there on youtube  but ive not gone over it and checked it yet, will do that later on sometime

part 2 https://youtu.be/CjGrY4c19vc

Thursday 23 Sept 2021

https://youtube.com/shorts/KG5IsYRzE1Y

Council tenant in flat C above me, Kentish Town, NW5 2XB again calling me names out her window so every one could hear - thursday 23 Sept 2021 I didn't catch all of what she was shouting but what I did manage to record was PH " the whole street everytime" me "oh pathetic" ph "pathetic" me "oh bless" PH " get a job me "oh get a job PH "unemployed bum, get a job, never work in [his? ]life, never worked in your life" Me 'laughs' PH "unemployed lowlife" Me "I'm a lowlife, againnn" PH "you always have been" Me "right" a pause Me " is that it then" a pause Me " rights i thought that was about the, yeah, she works so hard " ends 0:43

Wed 29 April 2020

Following on from the very aggressive and dramatic outburst of venom towards me [video dated 8 May 2020 but recorded 27 March 2020,] I was subjected to another dramatic and aggressive outburst by the tenant who lives in flat above me, who started stomping about in her bedroom. It sounded like my bedroom ceiling was going to cave it. She then sneaked down her stairs and before i knew it she kicked my flat door and by the time I had found a recording device she had gone back upstairs to her flat and wouldn't come out

Prt1

https://youtube.com/shorts/76nfdbprjzk

 

Transcript: Inside my flat PH " ... you out of here" Me " you kicked the door again you b*tch" PH " you getting thrown out" I opened my flat door and said "yeah the b*tch upstairs PH You getting thrown out "Just came down and kicked my door" PH "you fucking lowlife Me I wonder why that is, why don't you come down and tell me PH you blew the lights again you fcuking twisted, Me come on tell me PH you fcuking psycho Me tell me PH twisted, you need locking up Me come on tell me, come down and tell me PH I just fcuking did Me oh you kicked the door PH fcuking lights in Me you kicked my door PH you blew the lights in, again - you fcuking nutcase, you need locking up and we're gonna make sure you get locked up Me right PH and sectioned

prt 2 . PH Wed 29 April 2020 Watch and see she says

https://youtube.com/shorts/qDy6jJS7vTE

27 March 2020, a week after I came out of hospital after suffering a Heart Attack, I recorded flat C above me shouting things at me whilst she was in the downstairs hallway. I was in my flat on the first floor, and opened my door when she was downstairs.

Warning some swearing

https://youtube.com/shorts/WF2hZRDeBsY

C: " i'm going to get you thrown out of here, im recording everythink, about you blew in the fcuking lights in, you pathetic, small minded hope, hurry up and fcuking die. Fcuking hell unbelievable. I'm going to get you out like I got the other one out, don't worry and im logging everything and they are going to throw your ar*e out, they have assured us they are gonnu' Fcuking c**t, you pathetic lowlife,

Friday 28 Oct 2022

Flat C front door [which is directly opposite my door and main living/sleeping rooms] and no sound proofing in the building ] has been doing this thing the last weeks where it sounds like someone has come in/out her flat and closed the door so that the lock makes a racket - this was happening every night before 11pm, then earlier this week it was just after 11pm, the next night was just after 12midnight, then early this morning it was 1am - I suspect that its deliberate to upset/unnerve me.

Culture and Governance failings in Local Government

The below is from the central government website www.gov.uk - and more specific HERE 

Its about governance failings at a local council level. I haven't copied all of it - only some and have added in area's my own emphasis and notes. 

I wondered at what point did central gov think it was right to intervene in the running of local government - when some parts of the corporation weren't functioning as they are expected to,  by either statutory legislation or common law as opposed to inappropriate local customs and traditions. 

I think its fair to add that local councils do a lot of good stuff as well. 

Guidance

Addressing cultural and governance failings in local authorities: lessons from recent interventions

Updated 16 June 2020

1. Introduction

In May 2020 we published Statutory Intervention and Inspection: a guide for local authorities^{[footnote 3]}. Additional guides, including the lessons that can be learned from the different inspections and interventions under the Local Government Act are being developed and will be published in due course.

The Local Government Act 1999 (as amended) gives the Secretary of State powers to inspect and, subject to there being sufficient evidence, intervene in a local authority where that authority is failing in its best value duty, namely:

to secure continuous improvement in the way in which its functions are exercised, having regard to a combination of economy, efficiency and effectiveness.^{[footnote 4]  [my emphasis]} 

Since 2010, the Secretary of State has intervened formally in 4 local authorities:

• Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
• London Borough of Tower Hamlets
• Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
• Northamptonshire County Council

There have also been non-statutory interventions in Birmingham City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Although each intervention was unique and the sample size is small, it is important that we identify common characteristics to ensure that lessons can be learned for the future.

Our analysis shows that one common characteristic of recent statutory and non-statutory interventions is weaknesses in the local authority’s culture and governance.

The culture of a local authority is determined by its shared values and beliefs, how decisions are made, as well as how elected members and officers behave, interact and carry out their roles.

This is designed to be a living document which will be updated as we learn lessons from any future interventions. In this spirit, we would welcome suggestions from local authorities as to omissions or additions. Any comments should be made to LocalGovernmentStewardship@communities.gov.uk.

4. Addressing poor behaviour across an authority

5. Strengthening scrutiny, transparency and whistle-blowing support

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/addressing-cultural-and-governance-failings-in-local-authorities-lessons-from-recent-interventions/addressing-cultural-and-governance-failings-in-local-authorities-lessons-from-recent-interventions

                                                                        

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Post: Municipal Corporations HERE

Municipal Corporations - Local Governance

WORK IN PROGRESS

[notes: I can't find this great reform act of 1832 or the below mentioned 1835 Act - on the website legislation.gov.uk, not even under the year 1832 HERE. I've also checked the years 1831 - 1839, just in case and I still can't find such acts even ones that have been noted as repealed.

I can though find 2 Municipal Corporations Acts of 1882 and 1883 which I will link to below]

http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/politics/municip.htm

" The 1835 Municipal Corporations Act 

After the passing of the 1832 Reform Act the next logical step in the reform of the constitution was that of the Municipal Corporations. 

There were about 250 of these towns, each of which had received a Royal Charter at some time in the past to have its own council or corporation. There were great variations in how the corporations were chosen and how they functioned but in over 180 of them, only the members of the Corporation were allowed to vote. Normally they re-elected themselves or brought friends and relatives onto the council. The Commission found generally that power was held by a small number of people because so few townsfolk could vote. 

They also found evidence of corruption with the council members becoming rich at the expense of the town's inhabitants.

Corporation funds are frequently expended in feasting and in paying the salaries of unimportant officers. In some cases, in which the funds are expended on public works, an expense has been incurred beyond what would be necessary if due care had been taken. These abuses often originate in negligence ... in the opportunity afforded of obliging members of their own body, or the friends and relations of such members.

Parliamentary Papers (1835) XXIII. Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations

The corporations fixed the local bye-laws and taxes and it was impossible for the majority of rate-payers to remove unpopular councils because they could not be voted out. Most of the corporations used their privileges for personal and party advantage: the majority were Tory. Councils ignored matters like water supplies, drainage and street cleansing which they were supposed to oversee.

Even worse than this, most of the new industrial towns had not been recognised as boroughs and had no corporation at all. In these towns, living conditions deteriorated and the overcrowded slums were a threat to public health. In October 1831 the first cholera epidemic broke out in Sunderland and spread rapidly throughout the country. By January 1832 cholera had broken out both in Edinburgh and London.

Following the same procedures that had been adopted for the investigation of the Poor Laws, in July 1833 the Whig government set up a Royal Commission was to investigate the working of local councils. The Commission's secretary was Joseph Parkes, a radical lawyer. 285 towns were investigated, most of which were found to be unsatisfactory. As a result of the Commission's findings, a Bill was drawn up and brought to the House of Commons by Lord John Russell in June 1835.

The Bill went through the House of Commons without too much difficulty but the House of Lords proved more difficult. 

Most of the closed corporations were controlled by Tories and the Tory peers claimed that the Bill was an attack on privileges and property. They had used the same reasons to oppose the abolition of rotten boroughs during the 1832 Reform Act campaign. The Lords made some amendments to the Bill but, thanks to the efforts of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, the Tory Lords were restrained from throwing out the Bill altogether. The legislation went onto the Statute Book in September 1835.

Terms of the Act

• All closed corporations were abolished
• Borough councils were to be elected by all male ratepayers who had lived in the town for three years
• Councillors were elected for three years at a time and one-third of the council was to be elected annually
• Councillors would choose the mayor, who would hold office for one year
• Councillors would choose a group of Aldermen who would hold office for six years
• Each borough was to have a paid town clerk and treasurer. Accounts were to be properly audited
• Councils were required to form a police force
• Councils, if they so wished, could take over social improvements such as proper drainage and street cleaning
• Towns and cities that had no council could apply for incorporation if they so wished
  
  

Comment

The Act provided a vast improvement over the previous system, which was haphazard and disorganised. It also established the principal of elected town councils. Progress was very slow but the Act at least established the machinery that would enable future reforms to be carried out in the towns. However, the legislation did have several failings:

• The Act did not compel the new councils to make social improvements. Consequently, by 1848 only twenty-nine boroughs had taken any action in terms of public health
• Many towns failed to apply for incorporation because the procedure was complicated and expensive. In 1848 there were still sixty-two large towns without councils.
• The Act mainly benefited the middle classes. Very few working men were wealthy enough to be ratepayers."  Source  http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/politics/municip.htm

Municipal Corporations Act 1882 HERE   

Municipal Corporations Act 1883  HERE