Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home

The working classes wages have been massively suppressed in this country for decades now due to cheap mass imported labour. I have seen it myself.

In the early 2000 I recruited jobs paying mid £30k's. Over the next decade every job I advertised had multiple applications from Spanish, Italians, Portugese etc offeringh to do the job at just above half the UK going rate. It was the same in many roles. This mass immigration drove wages down for the UK native working class.

It's one reason the working class voted for Brexit and Reform, the working classes standard of living, housing costs etc have all suffered. Farage is the only one saying he will do something about it.

Naturally the rich that loved living in theri French second home etc hate him for Brexit but the working class cling to him as the only party that might sort out their issues.

don't be fooled by the pint of beer & fags, the one of the boys image he tries to promote....... Farage has NEVER been on the side of the working class. Don't forget he is Dulwich educated & the only thing wrong with that is his denial & efforts to look working class.

He is a Trump disciple & will be looking to make as much money as for himself & his cronies. Nothing he says now means anything - given the chance he will do what is best for him

For those who say the office buildings in the LA have all been sold, surely as businesses and LA lean more into AI they won't need so many WFH staff surely?
I'm not being goady, it's surely a natural conclusion of it.
In a country where so many councils are almost bankrupt they need to save costs.

Why does it impact women specifically?

It’s for companies to manage work performance, not for the government to ban WFH for every organisation, public or private.

That is just insane and the impacts on women, disabled people, people being forced to live in unaffordable areas, companies who would need to now find more office space… it’s absurd and quite concerning.

First country in the world to ban flexible working.

Farage is an idiot. Who is he even trying to appeal to? What other stupid ideas does he have in store?

For those who say the office buildings in the LA have all been sold, surely as businesses and LA lean more into AI they won't need so many WFH staff surely?
I'm not being goady, it's surely a natural conclusion of it.
In a country where so many councils are almost bankrupt they need to save costs.

Maybe you are mixing with the wrong sort of people?

I am not a fan of nigel farage but I agree with his stance on this. My opinion is influenced by the number of people who I know who are 'WFH ' who are taking the utter P*

But that poster doesn’t work for WeWork.

For the poster’s company it’s been a failure in terms of
increased fixed costs.j

But I do agree with you that Farage’s concern about WFH is just about appeasing his landlord mates and bribers.

I am not a fan of nigel farage but I agree with his stance on this. My opinion is influenced by the number of people who I know who are 'WFH ' who are taking the utter P*

Not if you are Wework. For them it's trebles all round. Maybe they made enough to slide some spare to the author of the policy ?

When you get to my age, you will have lost count of ways filthy lucre can be shovelled into the trough for greedy snouts.

Since it's a truth universally acknowledged that there are too many cars on the road (rush hour where I live is insane and it's a mid sized town), WFH was suggested as part of the solution to the country's creaking road systems. That seems to have been forgotten now though in a rush to get people back in offices.

Since public transport is problematic in a lot of the country, which isn't going to change any time soon, why has this big positive for WFH been put to one side?

Spending millions on renting space at Wework suggests a bit of a failure.

If Farage wants to tempt voters who aren’t his usual hotbed of support, he needs to bin rage baiting crap like this.

It’s not a vote winner, simple as that. It impacts women and disabled people particularly, and a lot of good people will simply move to the private sector, where presumably private employers can do what they like (and will continue with popular flexibility policies).

Spending millions on renting space at Wework suggests a bit of a failure.

No i wouldn't ban it. But for younger people starting out i think its absolutely shite.

Nothing you have posted has suggested the policy was a failure though.

I mean who did you think it was mean to benefit ?

While you are all having a lovely time trying to outdo each other on who hates Farage the most, has anyone actually looked into what employers think about working from home? They are the ones paying the wages after all.
Why are Amazon and Boots trying to bring workers back into the office if all is well? Why has Stuart Rose said working from home has spawned a generation of people who are not doing proper work?
I've no doubt going back to the office is a wrench if you are a home worker, but seeing some of the nonsense on here day-in, day-out about family coming first, my children are my priority, unreasonable flexible working requests etc etc, I think (much as I dislike him) Farage (and Rose) may have a point acrually. There are some I have read who give the impression that their work is something they do when there is nothing else going on in their lives. Working from the office may help put an end to this entitlement.
I am not a Reform supporter and have no time for Farage at all, but it would be nice to see a decent, sensible discussion about policies without name calling, insults and projections that have nothing to do with the matter in hand, such as thinly-veiled insults about older people and references to 'old white men', which just make the posters sound a bit ignorant tbh.
The lack of sensible discourse and knee-jerk reactions along with the inevitable insults at anyone who does not toe the 'Reform are awful' line is EXACTLY the reason the party is gathering such traction in the UK.

My company (private) decided to enforce a strict return but didn’t do the maths and we didn’t have enough space, so now they spend millions each year for a floor at WeWork for a couple of departments 😂😂 So clever