IMPORTANT: We have been made aware that WhistleblowersUK @WB_UK have issued a statement claiming not to have been contacted in regards to the documentary. This is totally false and we are taking the unprecedented step to publish parts of those emails, sent to two different email addresses to show we made several attempts to contact them.
[email protected] was contacted on 14 & 16 April
[email protected] was contacted on 8th May
What are the chances that these different emails, one of which has sent correspondence to us last year, all miraculously disappeared?
As you can see in the parts of the emails, we were polite, respectful and offered ample time to respond, even offering an extension if the original 10 days were insufficient.
We sent rights of reply to Mr Ager-Hanssen and Mr Foxley, too. We received no response from Ager-Hanssen and Mr Foxley's reply was reflected in the film.
Journalistic integrity and dignity have been at the heart of this project since day one, everyone in our film, whether we agreed with them personally or not, was treated fairly. We will not sit idly by and let people pretend otherwise.
It's been two weeks since Whistleblower Inc was released, and there has been no comment or statement from WBUK or its Parliamentary supporters on the messages the CEO sent calling whistleblowers 'mad' and 'weirdos' and that one could 'fuck off' and be removed from a support group because he 'never paid his subscription money'
Its hard to believe how #WBUK can attack @WBINC_Doc for their documentary calling the producers liars for saying they are pro bounty and then promote the below. The below individuals are the biggest threat to genuine #Whistleblowers in our lifetime.
It's been two weeks since Whistleblower Inc was released, and there has been no comment or statement from WBUK or its Parliamentary supporters on the messages the CEO sent calling whistleblowers 'mad' and 'weirdos' and that one could 'fuck off' and be removed from a support group because he 'never paid his subscription money'
We were given access to shocking messages sent by WBUK CEO Georgina Halford-Hall, in which she says a whistleblower can "fuck off" and that she is going to kick him out of a support group because he hadn't paid his subscription money for their 'services'. She also refers to whistleblowers who have publicly raised concerns about the organisation as "weirdos" and "mad".
As directors of the organisation, @jogideon@tessamunt@RealStephenKerr need to address this publicly. This is not "trolling" or "harassment" or a "hit job", these are people with valid concerns and criticism who have been harmed by your organisation and Halford-Hall's behaviour towards them.
We spent 9 months investigating this story, and couldn't squeeze everything into 30 minutes, but there is a mountain of well-evidenced concerns raised by genuine whistleblowers who have reached out to you, often in incredibly difficult circumstances, and have entrusted us with their story and your shameful attempts to gaslight them on LinkedIn with ridiculous aspersions will not wash and we will keep pushing on their behalf until you address the incredibly serious safeguarding issues raised in the film.
We have been asked why we never send out messages calling for support when under attack from #WBUK?
The answer is we would never dream of exploiting #whistleblowers by asking them to go online and say we supported them. The very concept of doing that is manipulative and exploitative.
We do however thank everyone for your amazing unsolicited support. Your response to @WBINC_Doc has been extraordinary. We are so grateful and all the more humbled that your support has been so sincerely given.
Seven years ago, Eileen Chubb @CompassnInCare and her colleagues sent a detailed report to every member of the APPG on Whistleblowing documenting serious concerns about WhistleblowersUK. Not one person responded.
In the years that followed, more people were harmed.
This document, compiled by Compassion in Care, contains signed witness statements from whistleblowers who contacted WBUK for help. What they describe is not a support organisation. It is an operation that charged £100 per hour for case management, demanded 5% of any legal award, passed personal details to solicitors without consent, and told one person reporting child abuse concerns that there were fees to pay.
A tribunal in the Banerjee case flagged that WBUK's invoicing may have breached the Compensation Act 2006. WBUK withdrew that claim during the hearing. Then, fully aware of the legal risk, they reworked the same arrangement into a private contract designed to stay out of future court proceedings. At least 11 whistleblowers were handed that contract.
The @WBINC_Doc documentary has now vindicated what Eileen and others have been saying for years. Two sitting MPs serve as vice chairs of the APPG on Whistleblowing and have said nothing about any of this.
The full report is linked below. Read it and decide for yourself.
https://t.co/6gOJJF6BEq
Just a brief reminder of our first report on the concerns being raised about #WBUK This report was sent to all members of the #APPGonWhistleblowing We never recieved a response from anyone. We heard several years later that Halford Hall had told the group that we were a small group of people with a grievance and that none of us were #Whistleblowers at all. This is how it began and the harm continued. Now the documentary @WBINC_Doc vindicates everything we said. Why did only Georgina Halford Hall have a voice? Because she had access to @UKParliament and huge amounts of vested interest corporate funding. The scandal is that #Whistleblowers and those whose lives depended on #Whistleblowers continued to be harmed as a result. #InquiryNow #WBUKscandal https://t.co/LBCobZvTzQ
We are so grateful that so many of #WBUKs victims are speaking to journalists. #WBUK thought these #Whistleblowers would never be heard, they were wrong. Lots more important exposures to come. There will also be lots more news on the @jogideon and WBUK emails soon as a staggering amount of evidence has emerged about this issue and we are looking forward to this all being public as soon as the legal people allow. Meanwhile please keep sending the below documentary to your MPs. We are so grateful 🙏
https://t.co/rofHeb9Mvi
You have to be seriously deficient as a human being to make money from whistleblowing @CompassnInCare no truer word spoken.
It’s companies/individuals like the one highlighted in the video below that have put me off answering messages to people - who might be legitimate & want to help me. I’m so guarded now & give little time to anyone.
https://t.co/IidAMAUET8
Please do watch this!
People have been through hell to bring you these truths.
Well done @tracyaustin_@CompassnInCare and all who worked so hard on this.
Apparently the calculating tactic of pretending you never recieved emails or correspondence is widely recognised and as such there is recommended advice for the situation, such as sending a copy to a separate individual. As one can claim not to have recieved this correspondence but two is incredible.
Apparently the tactics of denying recieving emails are most closely linked to US political scandals.
Hmm... whistleblower Pav Gill's company 'Confide' has been removed from the WBUK website & contact page and they've scrubbed all mentions of him from their Twitter... Trouble in paradise? 🤔
Full documentary now streaming here: https://t.co/lUQnhvCmph
It is only a matter of time before the lies about the lies are further exposed. @RealStephenKerr@tessamunt@jogideon your behaviour in posting the below in spite of all the evidenced concerns raised in the documentary is consistent with your stance so far, ignore all harm and misconduct and keep repeating your funders mantra. Truely concerning behaviour.
@Victoria_Rixon@WBINC_Doc Myself and others have long believed Georgina is using Whistleblowing as a money making exercise to heighten her profile - and no genuine concern about genuine victims of institutional corruption.
#fraud
For years we have tried to raise valid concerns about the victims of #WBUK we were ignored. We later heard we were called liars.
The numbers grew and the harm grew and we tried to raise the alarm, we were ignored and later heard we were called liars.
#WBUK tried to silence us with covert malicious allegations.
More victims came forward and also a brave internal #WBUK #whistleblower This time we were called liars openly.
A documentary was made, they were called liars for giving a voice to the victims @RealStephenKerr@tessamunt@jogideon how many victims will it take for you to stop calling us liars and act, whats the magic number, 300 or 400 victims? How much harm needs to happen before you listen. We were never liars. We are not the enemy we are the mirror you dare not look in
@beyondfreefall@WBINC_Doc Wendy is on the money here. People should listen to real whistleblowers, and real organisations helping those who speak out for free.
Those profiteering from people harmed, like WBUK,should not be allowed to exist.