Dr Minh Alexander retired consultant psychiatrist 4 June 2023
WhistleblowersUK the much criticised external secretariat of the also dubious Whistleblowing All Party Parliamentary Group (which has no official standing or powers), has publicly suggested that Boris Johnson might be a whistleblower for stating that he will cooperate with the UK COVID inquiry.
As might be expected, this has provoked strong reactions from genuine whistleblowers.
A hopefully self-explanatory enquiry to the Whistleblowing APPG is shared below.
From: REDACTED
Subject: WhistleblowersUK’s suggestion that Boris Johnson is a whistleblower, financial transparency and handling of whistleblowers’ personal data
Date: 4 June 2023 at 11:04:04 BST
To: REDACTED
BY EMAIL
All Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing
4 June 2023
Dear Ms Robinson and colleagues,
WhistleblowersUK’s suggestion that Boris Johnson is a whistleblower, financial transparency and handling of whistleblowers’ personal data
I write to raise further serious concerns about your external secretariat, WhistleblowersUK.
On 3 June 2023 WhistleblowersUK tweeted to suggest that Boris Johnson was a whistleblower in respect to his claimed plans to disclose pandemic related documents to the COVID inquiry.
“Is former PM @BorisJohnson #BlowingTheWhistle?”
Mr Johnson is known for the opposite of telling truth. He was fined for a criminal breach of COVID lockdown laws, committed as prime minister. He currently faces further allegations about other breaches of the COVID lockdown.
He has been criticised for abrogation of responsibility during the pandemic. The many COVID policy failures under his premiership, such as the forced discharge of COVID positive patients into care homes, unnecessarily killed and injured thousands. The misconduct in public office that killed so many has been chronicled by Keep Our NHS Public.
Billions that could have been spent on public services, and on protecting the population from the clinical and economic effects of COVID, made their way into private pockets during his tenure.
He brought disgrace many times to his Office as prime minister.
Genuine whistleblowers find it appalling that WhistleblowersUK could suggest that Mr Johnson is any way a “whistleblower”.
It is a fundamental misapplication of the concept to apply it to the individual who was the controlling mind in our country’s tragic COVID misadventures. The many, many families whose lives have been changed forever by COVID losses deserve much better.
Moreover, it is most unfortunate to associate the term “whistleblower” with someone of Mr Johson’s character.
I acknowledge however, that under the US style bounty hunting model of financial rewards/ incentives that key members of the Whistleblowing APPG and WhistleblowersUK have sought to establish, that a criminal ratting out another criminal could be accepted as “whistleblowing” and rewarded. As in the case of Bradley Birkenfeld and other examples. If however, the APPG does not intend to replicate this aspect of the US model, please let me know.
I should add that the Chair of WhistleblowersUK has ignored a letter asking for clarification about WhistleblowersUK’s financial charges to whistleblowers seeking help, and the handling of whistleblowers’ data. Please see the correspondence forwarded below of 4 May 2023.
1. I would appreciate your comment on the tweet by WhistleblowersUK which equates purported compliance by a controlling mind with a public inquiry into gross failures with mass loss of life, to whistleblowing. Does the Whistleblowing APPG stand by the suggestion that Boris Johnson is a whistleblower?
2. I wonder also if the APPG would be kind enough to ensure that I receive a response from Tessa Munt on the outstanding questions on transparency about WhistleblowersUK’s financial charges to whistleblowers and WhistleblowersUK’s handling of whistleblowers’ highly sensitive data.
I previously raised questions of finances and conflict of interest with respect to WhistleblowersUK’s role as APPG secretariat in 2019. But this only led to Sir Norman Lamb’s resignation from the APPG because WhistleblowersUK refused to answer. The other APPG members were happy to continue with WhistleblowersUK as secretariat despite the lack of accountability and transparency. For the newer APPG members, my unanswered questions to the APPG in 2019 are documented here: Norman Lamb MP has resigned from the Whistleblowing All Party Parliamentary Group
A key issue arising from information on WhistleblowersUK’s website is: Does WhistleblowersUK share whistleblowers’ highly sensitive personal data with third parties such as NAVEX Global, and without disclosing that it does so?
Many thanks and best wishes.
Dr Minh Alexander
Cc
The Earl of Minto, Minister of State, Department for Business and Trade
Baroness Heather Hallet
Dr Philippa Whitford MP
Keep Our NHS Public
Lord Wills Whistleblowing APPG member
Lord Sikka Whistleblowing APPG member
Baroness Neville-Jones Whistleblowing APPG member
From: REDACTED
Date: On Thursday, May 4th, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Subject: Data processing by WhistleblowersUK
To: REDACTED
BY EMAIL & Twitter
Tessa Munt
Chair of WhistleblowersUK
4 May 2023
Dear Ms Munt,
I am directing this to your council email address as I did not wish to sign into your private website, having noted the message displayed about data collected by the LibDems.
The current “Help me” section of the WhistleblowersUK website tells whistleblowers seeking help that their data is processed under the “WhistleB” process and overseen by WhistleblowersUK’s data controller. Could you kindly advise who is WhistleblowersUK’s data controller and whether any third parties have any role in processing the data of whistleblowers who contact WhistleblowersUK? For example, does WhistleblowersUK use dropboxes or digital platforms by third parties such as Navex Global? Please can WhistleblowersUk provide details of all third party involvement and also make such third party involvement clear on its website so that whistleblowers seeking help are fully informed? Also can WhistleblowersUK explain what the WhistleB process is?
Also, under“Our Purpose”, WhistleblowersUK now states that it provides “affordable” help. Can this be made be more transparent, and any financial charges for services to whistleblowers be explicitly published upfront? Also can any WhistleblowersUK’s requests for a share of financial settlements and awards be made explicit upfront? I ask as a document making indicating such charges and levies has never been published by WhistleblowersUK as far as I am aware.
Many thanks,
Dr Minh Alexander
Alexander's Excavations 
Regrettably, I have only had time to glance through this report and may therefore have misunderstood the contents.
However, I have a feeling that BJ will deploy any and all excuses, however tenuous, and WhistleblowersUK calculates that their profile will benefit from being associated with an ex-Prime Minister.
But, my main point is – thank you for not posting a picture of BJ, particularly one featuring his teeth.
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