Summary: Consultation in the EPO became so farcical that management basically denied staff's input (in defiance of the EPO's rules/spirit) and when challenged on the matter it responded, very harshly, whereupon staff representatives themselves were painted as the problem
Remember that even 15 years ago (more or less, maybe 16 years ago) Canonical appointed a a 'former' Microsoft manager (Spencer) to lead Ubuntu on the desktop