Taking great issue

Re: “As UK attacks whistleblowers, EU defends them”, (Opinion, Feb 22).

I take issue with this supposed piece of “information”.

In 2015, the British government under David Cameron, following Edward Snowden’s embarrassing disclosures of the sort of information any government would be justified in regarding as “state secrets”, asked the Law Commission to “consider” what sort of counter transparency measures might be required in the digital age.

What Jean Lambert is presenting as if it were law, is her take on a small part of the report. One asks what US President Trump means by “false reporting”. Surely this is an example.

This piece suggests that all whistleblowing in the UK has been criminalised, when the report has not even been considered by the politicians, let alone has any of it been adopted by any political party, brought forward and then gone through the tedious drafting process, committee stages and finally debated in the House of Commons to allow it to become UK law.

Ms Lambert’s credentials are that she is a member not of the UK parliament but of the EU parliament. She stood last month for the office of president of that house and polled 53 votes — approximately one twelfth of the votes cast; she is a member of the British Green Party which holds one seat out of 650 in the UK parliament; she is on the “Remain” side as regards Britain’s decision to leave the EU; it will be remembered that, after an incredibly well-publicised and hard-fought campaign, the British people democratically voted to exit from the EU.