Shut your Mouth - or else! Censorship against Whistle-blowers today!

 

A medical expert (let’s call him Pete) dares to express a critical opinion over the Covid vaccination controversy online. 

Before he knows it, Pete is called into the CEO’s office strongly berated and threatened with the sack if any more personal opinions are sent to the press. 

Not following or criticising the orthodox Big Pharma narrative now apparently gives health authorities the justification to bully their staff into compliance and even take away their jobs.

If one merely tries to use their freedom under the Human Rights Act it may incur the wrath of the self-righteous ones in power. 

Somewhat comically, back in 2013 Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the era of gagging NHS workers must end, because a culture of openness was key to improving standards. In the same year, NHS hospitals apparently spent £2m on gagging orders preventing staff speaking out. 

Tory MP, Steve Barclay, accused NHS chief Sir David Nicholson of either failing to ask questions about the orders or being 'complicit in a cover-up'.

In April 202 the question was asked: Is gagging NHS workers lawful? 

Coronavirus and freedom of speech 

As NHS workers report intimidation against would-be whistle-blowers, does gagging during a pandemic square with human rights laws?

The right to free speech is protected in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) which says: ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. 

NHS workers, like other workers, have a right to free speech. Limitations on their rights through intimidation, monitoring of their social media, and disciplinary action may breach the ECHR/Human Rights Act (HRA) directly, as the NHS is a public sector institution (Section 6 of the HRA). 

Some  restrictions on the right to free speech may reasonably be justified on a duty of fidelity of the worker towards their employer. However, there is robust protection for whistle-blowers, in the UK Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. 

Whistle-blowers are individuals who expose information on a harm to the public interest in the framework of their work-based relation in the public or private sector. 

The following text extract explained more: 

‘This strong protection is reflected in the statutory provisions on whistleblowing in the UK. According to the Employment Rights Act 1996 (‘ERA’), any complaint about, for instance, health and safety risks will be a protected disclosure under Section 43B(1)(b). It will also be a breach of 43(B)(1) (a) and (b) too, if alleging e.g. breach of PPE Regulations or a duty in Sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act. A worker then has a right not to be subjected to a detriment. There is no proportionality test to be applied. In addition, a worker has the right to urgent interim relief if they are dismissed for such a reason, in effect keeping them in their job (Sections 103A and 128 of the ERA). Damages are unlimited, either for the detriment or unfair dismissal.’

https://www.ier.org.uk/comments/is-gagging-nhs-workers-lawful-coronavirus-and-freedom-of-speech/ 

Have you been victimised for simply trying to get the truth out? 

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http://pat-regan.blogspot.com/2022/12/horrific-truth-about-experimental.html 

Not quite the same thing, but here's another blog dedicated to exposing dirty tricks against whistle-blowers in the community. 

http://woodvalewp.blogspot.com/