Whistle Blowers are traitors to the political elite but heros to the lumpen citizens.
Whistle Blowers (WBs)
The EU is riddled with fraud. To alarge extent it is encouraged so that once someone has given in to the temptation they are complicit and it is then doubly hard to withdraw from that rotten etiquette. Once you take the Devil’s Euro you are his man.
WBs are people within the system who seem to be the only EU personnel who do not to have immunity from dismissal! They are either basically honest and probably overcome with shame at what they find they are involved in. In the EU, it’s usually continual fraud by national institutions, favoured commercial companies, MEPs or EU officers – ultimately all funded by you, the taxpayer.
Whistle blowers may be unable to report their findings or suspicions to their immediate superiors as these people are often complicit in, or very tolerant of, the fraud the WB wishes to expose. The only viable option left is to inform the press.
In EVERY case, so far, the Whistle Blower has eventually been sacked.
The usual reason given is that he/she is ‘over-stressed’ or ‘mentally ill’ and can no longer do their job properly. The frauds they exposed are usually completely ignored and mostly continue to this day.
Former Labour leader Neil (now Baron) Kinnock was specifically tasked with dealing with the rampant fraud within the EU when he was appointed as a Commissioner. He ended up overseeing the sacking of EU chief accountant, Marta Andreasen, who exposed massive financial irregularities. see her book Brussels Laid Bare for the full sordid story.
The European Commission have a very interesting procedure with internal fraud.
• THE FRAUDSTER is sometimes transferred to another post, but continues to work, get his full salary and benefits
• THE WHISTLE BLOWER is suspended on half pay and eventually sacked (ref. 2007-22, 2008-16).
The crime is not the fraud but exposing it – and informing you, the taxpayer.
© Mick Greenhough 2010
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