St. Joseph’s Church and Priory, Austenwood Common, Gerrards Cross.

St Joseph’s Church, Gerrard’ Cross (Image, Google Street View).

A crew from St Joseph’s church, Gerrard’s Cross visits Temple Place – near Victoria Embankment, London – on the first evening of every week with food and clothes for the homeless.

They alternate between two different crews every other visit and while one always consists of decent and civil people the same can’t be said of the other. Every second Monday there will be at least one thuggish and abusive individual who’ll be seemingly there for no other reason than to belittle and denigrate those who avail of the hand-out.

It seems that whenever this female sensed vulnerability she eagerly dished out abuse and belittlement.

One of these offensive and abusive people is a middle aged Irish female (picture on right) whose sly bullying and abuse was first witnessed by me a number of months ago. The church was contacted about her disgusting behaviour but this didn’t deter the abuse in anyway whatsoever. It actually made it worse.

A short while after I had informed her church about her vile behaviour a middle aged Irish male showed up and took up the cudgels on her behalf. This idiotic and dim-witted man immediately commenced making sly utterances and grunting sarcastically at me; there was no doubt he resented my complaint about his compatriot and meant to bully me into submission.

I waited about 12 weeks before contacting the church to make sure this man was targeting only me (lest he be a general nutter who carried on this way towards everyone). And sure enough after a number of weeks it became clear that his vitriol was specifically for my consumption.

It’s clear that the female resented her sly abusive and vulgar behaviour being related to her church and, as a means to revenge, got one of her colleagues to attempt further intimidation and bullying on her behalf. I suppose the Irish male viewed himself as a gallant knight defending the lady’s honour.

Temple Place, London (Image, Google Street View).

I suspect she got some type of inane kick from
abusing and bullying, what she viewed as,
the vulnerable.

I’ve also experienced this type of abusive, bullying and cowardly behaviour from two Irish people in Cricklewood Homeless Concern (CHC). In this charity a young lady on reception, with a clear mental retardation, dished out abuse like it was a normal and everyday occurrence – an Asian workmate who witnessed her vitriol got very obviously embarrassed.

When I let the abuser know that her aggressive conduct was unacceptable she duly got another Irish female to have a go at me. The management of this place didn’t seem too concerned about the atrocious conduct of these two Irish employees; and I suspect if I went back I’d experience more of the same – as far as I can see, these people never give up, they’ll just keep on having another go or get a colleague to do so on their behalf.

Lately I’ve noticed the Irish female from St Joseph's has seemingly got her mojo back as a result of her abusive compatriot’s assistance. She was almost back to full flight as regards sarcasm and sly abuse on the evening of Monday 4 May.        

Just like I’ve said about the pugnacious trash in CHC: these two volunteers with St Joseph's church remind me of what Michel Faber wrote in his book, The Crimson Petal and the White: “Church Lane is infested with Irish … spiteful gossips the lot of them, and Caroline doesn’t want them accusing her of … .”

Perhaps Michel Faber just alluded to “spiteful gossips” as a space filler, although I think he’s too good an author to need gratuitous fillers. Perhaps, like me, Faber happened upon these people and always found them to be sly, abusive and gossipy?

These two bullies with St Joseph’s church, besides letting down their colleagues, have a pernicious effect on the people who use the hand-out – and on the community in general. Some of the patrons will have issues with drugs and alcohol while others may have fragile emotions – these can’t get any closure because they probably don’t have the means to make written complaint to the abusers’ superiors. Others who use and need the hand-out may feel that if they object to being bullied and abused they’ll be refused service. And then they’ll be some who’ll accept this Irish woman’s abuse and later unload their resentments by taking it out on innocent people along the streets.

Something I find interesting about this lady is why she volunteers to go out with St Joseph’s hand-out every other Monday evening as it’s quite obvious she greatly dislikes the vulnerable people they assist. I assume she either volunteers just to ingratiate herself with her community or she gets pleasure out of bullying vulnerable people and is willing to give up every second Monday evening in order to achieve this aim.