Boris does not think of working parents

[Belledan1]

I know we have got to get the economy up and running but you would think Boris would have perhaps said September about people going back to the office and not wfh especially with the lack of childcare clubs in the holidays at the moment. I know some employers will probably let people wfh still and I know furlough people probably should go back to work. I am lucky my child is older so don't have to worry re childcare in the holidays but I remember the stress of it all.

Boris does not think. At all.

You stole my line Fudge

Lol you are right. He could have just said employers could ask people to go back if they are able ie childcare etc.

Lots of people could go back. I could, now my 2 are older. As usual, badly thought through.

He just spouts rubbish

Nothing he said today made a great deal of sense in the way that there's a definitive plan to reach Covid-Zero status; he just flapped his mouth a little, bumbled and some interpret-this-your-own-way crap came out so that when they're held accountable for their catastrophic handling of the pandemic across the UK they can say "well, the public chose that".

@FudgeBrownie2019 lol at covid zero. Reminds me of the good old days when brexiteers thought the EU would give us full access to the single market without expecting us to conform to any of their rules.

He doesn't need to though, I bet he's never had a childcare issue in his life. The problem with pretty much all of the Cabinet is that a) they're male and b) they have women who enable them to do whatever they like while they take care of the DC. So thinking about childcare literally doesn't even cross their tiny minds.

Nurserys in my area still aren't taking on new applicants, and only have provisions for existing applicants.

I've not worked since lockdown because my work from home kit never materialised and I know my employers will demand I go into the office.

I can't even quit without financial penalty as I'm only 4 months out from maternity leave and anything under 6 months means I've got to pay my company maternity pay back.

Boris' announcement is dreadful.

why would Boris give a shit?

do you think he's ever had to dash across town, pissing off colleagues because you had to leave a meeting on the dot for finishing time, to grab a child before childcare closes...?

why would he put other people's kids first when he's never been the primary carer for his own kids?

@TokyoSushi

He doesn't need to though, I bet he's never had a childcare issue in his life. The problem with pretty much all of the Cabinet is that a) they're male and b) they have women who enable them to do whatever they like while they take care of the DC. So thinking about childcare literally doesn't even cross their tiny minds.

Pius boarding schools and nannies. If you have enough money to throw around, there are no childcare problems.

Have I watched the same thing or missing something?

Instead of telling people to wfh, employers are to be given more discretion about staff getting staff back into the work place safely. One way could be to continue to wfh, others back in in safely like millions have been doing throughout this.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/17/uk-coronavirus-live-boris-johnson-3bn-plan-nhs-battle-ready-for-winter-second-wave

As an employer of a business that has thus far coasted through Covid (online/digital services), I'd far rather give my staff a voucher to spend on their local high street than drag them into the office forcing childcare issues/commuting and polluting on them when there's no change to their work at home.

This still results in a loss for the economy, but I find it extremely hard to justify forcing choices I don't even like myself to save a system than I already viewed as fundamentally broken, churning people in and out of offices.

(Not that I envisage working 100% from home, and certainly not keeping up this involuntary co-worker situation I have going on with my husband!)

Kids would have been on holidays anyway so that's no different. If staff working for hissy clubs go back to work, there should be no reason for them not to reopen.

bJ is just desperate. The economy is tanking and he wants us all back in town buying our dinners at Pret. Not gonna happen is it. I'm not catching the covid express into the city