Whistle-blowing and public interest in UK

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham accused the government of "top down bullying" in the case of a protest by some doctors in Cumbria  (Professor John Ashton and others) who complained about re-organization in NHS in 2012. However, Andy Burnham refused to meet with whistle-blowers when he was in power in 2010.While some whistle-blowers lost everything he is still collecting his salary and so are others in his party who actively persecuted whistle-blowers by action or refusal to do what what was in their power to do.