On: Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie

[alasdair_]

In the UK, you can't legally get fired without cause, regardless of being in a union or not. (You can be made redundant but shrug).

[forgotmypwd123 → alasdair_]

And if they hire someone else to do your job, that wasn't redundancy, that was firing under false pretenses, and you can sue.