Prof Nigel MacLennan, Leadership Coach
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Doctorate, Leadership Coaching. No1 Best-selling Author. Qualified as Chartered Psych & FBPsS, Elected President of BPS 2021-2. Leadership Integrity Campaigner
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Leading Integrity
When evidence emerges of conspiracy to cover-up wrongdoing, should the ring leaders of the cover-up be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Integrity in Public Office
Why do so many heroes of intgrity have their careers ended for doing what they were ethically, morally, or legally duty bound to do?
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Leading Integrity
If those responsible for the miscarriages of justice, apparent perjury, the cover-ups, silently complicity in wrongdoing, are not held personally liable, how soon before we see another such scandal where lives are destroyed by deceit?
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Leading Integrity
Isn’t strange how many wrongdoers in the
#PostOfficeInquiry
are having the same memory problems?
Do you think any of the hundreds of innocent victims, Post Masters, have forgotten a single detail of how their lives were destroyed?
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Leading Integrity
Another day, more damning evidence of an apparent conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, & not one person has been arrested. Not one.
Is there any desire in the UK to live in a country where integrity matters?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
Would any rational person put an organisation, which appears to have perverted the course of justice, in charge of deciding how much compensation the victims of their apparent curruption should receive?
Would that be further corruption?
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Leading Integrity
If a person withholds evidence that could prevent a miscarriage of justice, is that perverting the course of justice?
Is that a criminal offence?
If so, when will the police be investigating?
#PostOfficeInquiry
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Given how many leaders of integrity (whistleblowers) have their lives destroyed for doing the right thing, (telling the truth), has the corruption in society now reached a point where integrity is the most career & livelihood threating trait a person can have?
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Leading Integrity
If people seem to have conspired to harm, commit perjury, or have been recklessly negligent, & have engaged in a cover-up of that conspiracy/negligence/perjury, should they be suspended pending criminal investigation?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
If a barrister who submits a fake £500 invoice is struck off, why are the legal "professionals" who destroyed hundreds of lives, & cost the country in excess of an estimated £1,000,000,000 still employed/practicing?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Another minister claims to be misled. Yet, appears not to have taken any steps to test the false narrative they were given.
Should those who fail in their duties of oversight & scrutiny be held personally liable for damages & costs?
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Leading Integrity
In every scandal, the perpetrators initially try to destroy the leader/s of integrity who exposed them.
If that doesn't work, this comes as no surprise: the wrongdoers start blaming each other.
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
With witness after witness reporting what they knew about the wrongdoing, why did they not speak-up?
1. Were they happily & silently complicit, as long as it paid their salary?
2. Frightened of retaliation?
3. Both?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
Every whistleblower will recognise this sequence of events:
1. Uncovering wrongdoing
2. Seeking to do right by asking the wrongdoers to stop
3. They don't
4. Instead, your rightdoing is reframed as wrongdoing
4. By whom? The wrongdoers.
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Leading Integrity
If this is not enough evidence to charge individuals with perverting the course of justice, what is?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Are we seeing rats leaving a ship that their actions have scuttled?
#PostOfficeInquiry
#PostOfficeScandal
Is it inevitable that duplicitous, toxic & dysfunctional "leaders" blame each other once proper scrutiny is applied?
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Leading Integrity
When it looks like a cover-up,
when it sounds like a cover-up,
when it walks like a cover-up,
when those with an interest in denying it is a cover-up,
claim it is not a cover-up,
is it a cover-up?
#PostOfficeInquiry
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Here is one for your "couldn't make it up" file.
Should those who appointed this conflict of interest position be exposed, named, shamed and held liable?
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Leading Integrity
Has it become the NHS norm to dismiss any expert who raises patient safety concerns?
Is having safety blind-eye-itis a covert condition of employment in the NHS?
NHS: do you feel safe when people who protect you are destroyed?
#NHS
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Leading Integrity
Every one of the leaders of integrity, (whistleblowers), I have had the great honour to help, and every one of the hundreds I have met, was subjected to DARVO by those whose criminality or corruption they exposed.
Not one exception.
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Leading Integrity
In how many other organisations is the level of mismanagement, misgovernance, dereliction of duty, false reporting, toxicity, self-delusion, and corruption, such that the police should be investigating?
Can you name a few?
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Leading Integrity
If you want to know what integrity looks like, Alan Bates epitomises it.
Do we want integrity to be present in the UK?
If so, we need to reward it.
Repost if you want Alan Bates Knighted.
#AlanBatesforKnighthood
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Is it true that the apparent wrongdoers in the Post Office, who destroyed so many lives, tried to cover-up their wrongdoing?
Did they try to stop the disinfectant of public scrutiny being applied?
How many other cover-ups are ongoing?
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Leading Integrity
Why are whistleblowers considered to be heroes of integrity?
Because they do what is right when surrounded by wrong.
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
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Leading Integrity
Is this true?
The more we scrutinise dysfunctional organisations, the more incompetence, complacency, corruption, concealment & cover-up we uncover?
Should regular scrutiny of organisations be a legal requirement?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
What has gone wrong in a society that forces health professionals thus: choose between your career and patient safety?
What goes on in the minds of those managers who destroy the reputations of conscientious protectors of the public?
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Leading Integrity
With not one perpetrator having been charged with perjury or perverting the course of justice, & not a single lawyer struck off, how much faith do you have that integrity will prevail after the
#PostOfficeInquiry
?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Is the disgusting behaviour of Post Office "leaders" the tip of a toxic iceberg of organisational wrongdoing?
Is it widespread because the wrongdoers are never held personally liable?
What other scandals will soon be exposed?
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Leading Integrity
Impossible Position?
What if you had a legal duty to report wrongdoing but no legal protections from retaliation by the wrongdoers?
Surely, no such situation exists in any civilised country?
It does, for millions of UK citizens.
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Leading Integrity
How many people will die because potential rightdoers are faced with the confirmed reality: if you act to save lives, or stop illegality, you will have your life destroyed?
Is silent complicity now a de facto condition of employment?
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Leading Integrity
If this report is true, what should be the penalty for those involved?
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Leading Integrity
Is the architect of a system going to admit that their system is failing, flawed, and dysfunctional, when doing so would impact their career?
Are they the least trustworthy to give system reliability evidence?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
When people are paid by an ethically compromised, or outright criminal organisation, should the Nuremburg defence ("I was just following orders") be given any weight?
Or, do they have an overarching duty to uphold law?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
If a lawyer acts to pervert the course of justice, what should be the penalty?
1. Personal liability for all costs and damages?
2. Being struck off?
3. Prison sentence?
4. All of the above?
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
Congratulations to Alan Bates.
To those people in the Post Office, & their apologists, who, together, sought to silence and destroy Sir Alan, take note: He epitomises what the UK most needs:
courage and integrity.
#SirAlanBates
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Leading Integrity
Would you hire a general counsel who had behaved as described in this article?
Are the SRA investigating?
If not, why not?
#PostOfficeInquiry
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
To those who have reported wrongdoing to a regulator, only to be met with inertia & resistance to act, are you surprised that it has taken public scrutiny of the scale of the
#PostOfficeInquiry
to get a regulator to ehm... regulate?
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Leading Integrity
Have we, in the UK, institutionalised the covert condition of employment:
"You are required to conceal, cover-up and remain silent about any and all of our organisational wrongdoing"?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
If proper scrutiny were applied to all organisations that whistblowers had exposed, in how many would we find layer upon layer of corruption & wrongdoing?
1. None?
2. A few?
3. Many?
4. Almost all?
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
Have the Post Office, Blood, Grenfell, Oxfam, NHS, Hillsborough, RAF... and other scandals revealed that there is an endemic breakdown of trust in UK society, caused by the lack of integrity demonstrated by so many in public office?
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Leading Integrity
Are we at a tipping point where judges are now able to see through conspiracy to harm, conspiracy to cover-up, and the misappropriation of organisational resources to destroy/silence truth-tellers?
Will heroes of integrity be protected?
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Heroes of Integrity
pay a terrible price for truth telling.
They suffer moral injury at the start: faced with a choice between active/silent complicity, knowing THEY TOO are devoid of integrity vs certain life destroying retaliation from the wrongdoers.
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Leading Integrity
If some government "leaders" criminally destroy evidence, & never face prosecution, will other 'leaders' see the clear green light & copy that example?
Has integrity been abandoned one criminal example at time?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Integrity in Law
Most lawyers adhere to their duties of integrity to the court.
What should happen to those who seem to have caused or supported perverting the course of justice?
Strike off?
Personal liability?
Jail?
All three?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
If everyone who spots a public safety breach has to go to a higher court to overturn an adverse costs order (having been a hero of integrity), how many more potential whistleblowers will now decide that silent complicity is wiser?
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Leading Integrity
In your experience, how common are 'flying monkeys' in toxic organisations?
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@BladeoftheS
Given the increased level of corruption, with no personal liability, and ineffective regulatory bodies, it is entirely understandable that integrous people would want to leave the UK. It is also understandable why the corrupt would want to stay.
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Leading Integrity
Is anyone who has witnessed a cover-up culture even remotely surprised that:
1. Those who were directing the wrongdoing "attempted to pervert the course of justice"?
2. Not a single person has been charged with that?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
What signal do we send when those who seem to have either been involved in a cover-up, or, may have been in dereliction of duty, appear to be rewarded for failure or wrongdoing?
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Leading Integrity
When apparently corrupt persons are actively/silently complicit in conspiring to commit perjury, cause harm, cover-up their own wrongdoing, or pervert the course of justice, what is mental health impact on victims?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
With yet another "leader" saying he knew the Post Office was "very badly run & messy,"
why did he appear to fail in his legal duties to
1. Conduct proper scrutiny?
2. Test the accounts of those who were conflicted?
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
How widespread is "cover-up culture"? Is it only in toxic organisations? Or, only "led" by toxic "leaders"?
If cover-up culture is allowed to continue, can we, the people, ever trust any organisation?
Should it be outlawed?
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Leading Integrity
If you have witnessed organisational wrongdoing, you will know that this is true:
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Leading Integrity
When wrongdoers start breaching the 1st rule of holes ("when in one, stop digging"), how far will they go to cover up their wrongdoing?
Will they then conspire to cover-up their cover-up?
Jail time?
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
Another day, another integrity scandal?
Has yet another leader of integrity (whistleblower) experienced attempts to silence them?
Should concealment or cover-ups of organisational wrongdoing be criminal, along with blind-eye-itis?
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Leading Integrity
If legal "professionals" engage in acts, which seem to be designed to deliberately mislead a court should they be held personally liable for all costs and damages, or, allowed to get away with it?
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Leading Integrity
Has the NHS reached a new low; preventing victims of wrongdoing from reporting the wrongdoing?
Did you know: whistblowers who are patients, volunteers or relatives, when they are subjected to retaliation, have no legal protections?
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Leading Integrity
Decades overdue, after countless heroes of integrity have risked everything to protect YOU, the NHS Ombudsman, at last, confirms what every whistleblower has known: "NHS is cynically burying evidence of poor care."
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Leading Integrity
Two questions for potential whistleblowers.
Is it worth protecting a society from harm by wrongdoers, when that society will not protect you from retaliation by the wrongdoers?
In such a society, is silent complicity the wisest option?
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Leading Integrity
Would we allow criminals to decide how and whether they are punished? No!
In what bizarre universe is it acceptable that organisations exposed for wrongdoing can decide how to retaliate against the person who exposed their illegality?
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Leading Integrity
Whistleblowers, do you recognise these techniques to discredit you?
1. Perverse terms of reference for an "independent" investigation?
2. Choose the "investigators" who will find as instructed?
3. Coordinate statements of 'witnesses'?
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Leadership Integrity
When there is no proper scrutiny of "leaders" and no accountability when their wrongdoings are exposed, what can you expect?
A
#PostOfficeScandal
a
#BBC
Diana scandal, a Jimmy Saville,
#BritishMuseum
scandal, an
#Oxfam
scandal, a... the list goes on & on.
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Leading Integrity
About how many more dysfunctional, or corrupt organisations are we about to learn the toxic truth?
Will any of those "leading" the corruption, mismanagement, misgovernance or false reporting be held criminally liable?
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Leading Integrity
Should those who conspire to cover up, or conspire to harm, or
give or cause to give false witness,
be held to account & prosecuted?
Retweet if you think, Yes.
Do nothing if you think they should get away with it.
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
In the league of
'The most psychologically unsafe and toxic cultures ever,'
how close is the
#PostOffice
to the top?
Which organisations are the other contenders for the title, of most toxic ever?
#PostOfficeInquiry
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Have people had enough of penalising integrity & rewarding corruption?
If the UK starts recognising heroes of integrity, such as
#AlanBates
& holding personally liable the wrongdoers they expose, will there be an outbreak of integrity?
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Leading Integrity
How often has this playbook been used in the NHS? When a high performing person raised legitimate concerns "straight after this the trust launched a disciplinary hearing against her leading eventually to her dismissal the following May."
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Leading Integrity
Should every citizen in the UK now be advised:
"When you encounter wrongdoing at work, however illegal, if you fail in your implied duty of silent complicity, you will pay the costs for your career and reputation to be destroyed" ?
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Heroes of Integrity
What does it say about a society that encourages heroes of integrity to report illegalities, and yet destroys the reputations and careers of those who do?
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Leading an Outbreak of Integrity
Will the board members of this 'trust' be held to account for their apparent dereliction of duties of oversight and scrutiny?
Will the CEO and SMT be held liable for their apparent reckless or gross negligence?
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Leading Integrity
When yet another expensively trained NHS professional, in this case, a brilliant psychiatrist, leaves both the NHS and the UK because the organisation seems so toxic and psychologically unsafe, why are the HSE doing nothing?
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Leading Integrity
When someone in public office seems to have repeatedly breached the Nolan Principles of public office, can they then be relied upon, if given a new appointment, to breach those principles, on demand?
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Leading Integrity
For your "couldn't make it up" file.
Because it would take time/money to stop wrongdoers assessing the damage done by their own wrongdoing, wrongdoers will be allowed to continue self-assessment.
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
When there have been vast numbers of miscarriages of justice, should the apparently complicit be compelled to give evidence?
Or should they be allowed to escape the possibility of perjuring themselves? Extradition?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
When those who should protect members of an organisation, fail to do so, should they be held personally liable for all costs and damages, or criminally prosecuted for reckless negligence, or both?
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Leading Integrity
NHS is in the dock again?
Is there a gang-like cover-up culture in the NHS?
Will the wrongdoers in this case, people who damage trust in the NHS, ever be held to account?
If not, how long will it be before the next NHS scandal?
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Leading Integrity
If auditors fail in their duty, & potential whistleblowers have no legal protections, is what follows inevitable: fraud, mismanagement, misgovernance, corruption, with near or actual legal impunity?
Is this the daily reality in the UK?
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Leading Integrity
Is it inevitable, when a culture turns toxic, that more & more wrongdoing goes on until it implodes under the failed cover-ups?
Why are the senior managers still in post?
Why have the involved legal "professionals" not been struck off?
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Leading Integrity
What term do you save to describe wrongdoers who falely accuse entirely innocent right doers?
#PostOfficeInquiry
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Behind all the scandals known, & yet to be exposed, are their enablers, the wilfully blind; those who know the truth yet choose not to see.
Has every atrocity, genocide, fraud, corruption, & false reporting, been enabled, made possible, by the wilfully blind?
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Leading Integrity
What is going on when someone raises legitimate concerns about clear wrongdoing & THEY are accused of wrongdoing?
Is it?
1. Gaslighting?
2. Diversion?
3. Fraud?
4. Cover-up?
5. Corruption?
6. DARVO?
7. All of the above?
#PostOffceScandal
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Leading Integrity
Whistleblowers detect over 43% of all reported fraud and corruption, yet society destroys WBs.
Did paid auditors fail to detect apparent POL fraud on PostMasters?
Does who pays the auditors determine what they find?
#PostOfficeScandal
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Leading Integrity
Being a leader of integrity can be dangerous, even career ending, if you inherit an organisation filled with corruption.
Every whistleblower I have helped has been a leader of integrity.
All suffered career ending retaliation at the hands of corrupt persons.
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Leading Integrity
When a judge says: "Clearly, there had been a conspiracy all along going on behind the scenes," should police be investigating:
1. Conspiracy to cause harm?
2. Conspiracy to commit fraud?
3. Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice?
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Leading Integrity
Another hour, another regulatory body fails in its duty.
Who in the Charity Commission will be held to account?
If no one, can any member of the public ever have any faith in any regulatory body?
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Leading Integrity
Has yet another regulatory body, yet again, failed in its duty?
Who in the SRA will be held to account?
If no one, can any member of the public have faith in any regulator?
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Leading Integrity
Are people so apathetic about:
1. Corruption going on in so many organisations
2. The regulators being unwilling/ incapable of stopping it
3. The wrongdoers almost never being prosecuted
because they think the systems to address it are themselves corrupt?
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Leading Integrity
When those leading integrity to stop corruption in organisations, can have their lives destroyed by the toxic & corrupt, with legal impunity, what does that tell us about how seriously our government takes integrity & upholding the law?
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1/2
Heroes of integrity uncover 43% of fraud & corruption, whereas professional auditors, who are paid to do so, only uncover 19%
Yes, you read correctly.
Whistleblowers are in the front line of protecting our country against: fraud, mismanagement, corruption, toxic cultures...
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Heroes of Integrity
Would those who have spoken up to stop the public being harmed by organisational wrongdoing, and subsequently had their lives destroyed by retaliation, recognise this sequence of "reasoning"?
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Leading Integrity
Would a satirist post this notice?
"Post Master Wanted. Someone to buy a job that has imprisoned hundreds of people. Must have tolerance of false accusations, and enjoy being gaslit, for decades, by the real wrongdoers."
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Leading Integrity
You couldn't make this up:
"Post Office chief Vennells complained that GC put professional integrity ‘above the business’"
Can you imagine, a CEO complaining about staff integrity?
Surely (irony alert) such staff were disciplined?
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Leading Integrity
When organisational "leaders" lie, conceal, cover-up and conspire to destroy honest, law abiding citizens, should the deceivers be held personally liable, or allowed to hide behind "I acted on behalf of the organisation"?
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Leading Integrity
Is banning those toxic managers who retaliate against the leaders of integrity (who expose their wrongdoing) enough of a punishment for:
1. Putting the public at risk
2. Destroying the whistleblower's career, reputation & life?
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Leading Integrity
If a major law firm appeared to deliberately break the law, should the lawyers who directed or conducted the apparent breaches be allowed to hide behind their company, or should they be held to account, & if guilty, personally liable?
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Leading Integrity
Is it true that in EVERY corruption scandal, ALL of those with duties of scrutiny/oversight failed in their legal duties?
What is the role of auditors, non-executive directors, trustees, governors?
No scrutiny = corruption?
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Heroes of Integrity
What does is say about human nature that 85% of whistleblowers go on to suffer psychiatric problems and never work again, for trying to protect the public from fraud, mismanagement, corruption, misgovernance and other criminality?
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Leading Integrity
It must be an hour with an o'clock in it. Why?
Yet another integrity scandal emerges from the Post Office.
Would you trust them with anything important, such as your personal data?
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
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Leading Integrity
Has yet another hero of integrity, who has protected YOU, had his life destroyed by wrongdoers?
Does anyone think the wrongdoers will ever be held to account?
If they escape accountability, how many more wrongdoers now feel they are untouchable?
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Leading Integrity
When a hero of integrity, like Lee Castleton, whom I had the great honour to meet, asks us to call out wrongdoing in organisations, he is asking us to speak-up to create a better, safer world for our children.
He did.
I did.
Will you?
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