We recently pulled out of a potential project with Tax Justice Network's The Offshore Game once we realised that their repeated offers of contractual consolidation and participatory strategies were undermined by an absolute lack of trustworthiness in the negotiating process.
The Offshore Game are an NGO-lite advocacy group of dubious meritocratic structure - the prime player in the project is one George Turner - a man who thinks Rangers have won the European Cup, who is unaware that SkyBet sponsor the Championship and who, in an act of son-of-Boris-Johnson buffoonery, chose to be sloshing down posh wine in French chalets when the project was launched in The Guardian newspaper in April.
The launch was three months late and was removed from the paper after just one day.
After we concluded our arrangement, the other party in The Offshore Game (Alex Cobham) posted an article on Twitter referring to the support of whistleblowers by the Tax Justice Network http://www.taxjustice.net/2015/01/16/will-antoine-deltour-become-prisoner-conscience/comment-page-1/#comment-28692.
We responded.
"Comments by Tax Justice Network (TJN) on the rights of whistleblowers would carry more weight if TJN practised what they preach.
As a whistleblower in the football industry, I was astonished at the
behaviours of TJN derivative The Offshore Game (TOG) when it came to
issues of my security. The interaction was abusive, impacted negatively
upon my security profile and negotiations were at no point carried out
in good faith.
TOG is simply NGO-lite with minimal integrity in structure."
Our comment was removed.
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