This is disrespectful to women who have homeschooled and wfh?

[PrincessNutNuts]

"The general view is people have had quite a few days off, and it wouldn't be a bad thing for people to see their way round to making a passing stab at getting back into the office." Boris Johnson.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.lbc.co.uk/news/boris-johnson-enough-days-off-work-from-home-lockdown-easing/

Quite a few people have had time off but the rest of us have had no let up and are on our knees 😢

in the past year mumsnet has been full of threads of people wondering how to fill their time, which hobbies to take up, enjoying baking and crochet and so on. So I reckon there are many people out here who have done very little work, and it would be good for them to get back out there

that assumes there are jobs out there for them to go back out there to

Not that I am in favour of yet another bank holiday. I don't want to have time off work at the same time as everyone else, I want to take time off when it suits me.

No fan of BJ, but personally I don't want a bloody bank holiday. Fucking sick of this house all day (and yes I have been working FT and homeschooling two young ones).

Being back in the office and things back to normal would feel like a holiday after all this.
Definitley NO to a bank holiday from me.

The government is not looking down at the amount of tax we have to pay because for some of us WFH means WORKING...

So sure, some people have been furlough and had a nice long holiday, but most of us haven't.

Happy to go on a tax holiday if he thinks we just watched daytime tv and pottered around in the garden. No? Didn't think so...

I'd rather save all our bank holidays for when the borders open and we can go on a decent holiday. Such a waste when we are stuck in the UK!

Anyway it's not just Boris bashing. Keir-bashing and useless-twat bashing in general is equally necessary. I'd rather vote for a plate of cold sick than Labour atm. They can't even stay ahead in the polls, when they should be streets ahead and should have wiped the floor with the corrupt liars we have now. All the SNP can do is lie to each other and make us all have to read about it every fucking day. System's not working, we urgently need a new one.

Ridiculous man. I hope his days as PM are numbered.

@Crakeandoryx

Quite a few people have had time off but the rest of us have had no let up and are on our knees 😢

Yes, this is how I feel, it has been relentless and we have worked harder than ever, with no let up.

There have been many threads gunning for various sectors for allegedly not working during lockdown.

yet this is where you are drawing the line.

It good to know.

Is anyone really so shocked that an over-privileged upper-middle class middle aged man has said this?

He is still wrong though. And his comments are offensive.

It shows how put of touch he is with the reality of most people's lives. Days off? Try telling that to the people who've been at work this whole time trying to run a healthcare service (or any other essential business) in the middle of a pandemic whilst trying not to let their kids educational standards slip. He's such a knob at times. Don't think it was aimed at women though. Just working people in general. Fuckwit.

He sounds like my company’s MD who referred to staff WFH as “slobbing on the sofa”.

It is women who’ve borne the brunt of the homeschooling/childcare burden so – while of course not all men (c) hashtag have just left them to it – it’s not unreasonable to be pissed off at this from a feminist angle. As well as the other angle, which is that Boris, all Tories and all Tory voters are cunts.

This is nothing to do with being male or female though..is it?

@Bagamoyo1

There was a stay at home order.

Things were closed

People looked for leisure activities they could do at home.

Hence the crazes for baking and crochet.

@WellThisIsShit

Deeply ignorant man. And we voted him in...

Speak for yourself! He is deeply ignorant, and a privileged buffoon. Why anyone thought he’d make a good leader is beyond me.

@Bluntness100

I don’t get why this is about women homeschooling? A fuck ton of people have been furloughed, some for the best part of a ‘year, so yeah getting back to work is a good thing cor many, not more holidays.

What’s he supposed to say “ well obvs exc women (not men though) who have wfh and homeschooled”

Honestly are you just looking to be offended.

So what’s the argument? “Oh he didn’t mean YOU, he meant those furloughed slackers, so you don’t deserve a bank holiday either”?

A fuck ton of people have been furloughed, and a whole other fuck ton of people have worked themselves to exhaustion, and both groups have done it because they’ve been adapting to government restrictions on normal life and work during a pandemic, not as a fun little career experience. Presenting any of it as equivalent to a bank holiday is just offensively clueless.

IMO an extra bank hol could be really useful for the leisure and hospitality economy which has been closed for 75%(?) of the past year?

We might not be able to go on hol but a long weekend of pubs, soft play, cinema etc could generate them some funds/regular customers.

Are we really going to let this ignorant cunt of a man bully the workforce back into pointless office buildings so that his mates can line their pockets with rent money?

Good Ol' MN projecting all sorts of meaning that aren't the words.

I hear 'days off' as days off of normal life, not dossers.

I'd like my old routines back so not finding offence in what BJ said.

@Bluntness100

And actually in the past year mumsnet has been full of threads of people wondering how to fill their time, which hobbies to take up, enjoying baking and crochet and so on. So I reckon there are many people out here who have done very little work, and it would be good for them to get back out there

This thread is just a reason to do some Boris bashing. It’s not serious. Any reason would do.

Although to be fair this one is stretching a bit. We all know plenty of people have worked additionally and had it hard. We all know plenty of people haven’t, being furloughed, or working from home with no kids, no commute and everything a bit easier. He’s clearly not stating “ I think mothers who work from home and have home schooled have had enough time off so should get back to the office” so why anyone is pretending they think that’s what he’s specifically saying beats me

Just say “ I hate him, im a Labour supporter, can we have a thread where we all call him a cunt please”.

This ^^

And BJ is getting more popular in opinion polls, not less. Outside the MN hard-left echo chamber he's not hated.

I can't stand the bloke myself, but it's naive to think he's unpopular or that Starmer would stand a cat in hell's chance against him in an election.

Oh and BJ is a dick, fuck him.

Some people have had fun especially in the first lockdown. However many industries were adapted for the second and folk worked in greater numbers.

@Sicilianna

Are we really going to let this ignorant cunt of a man bully the workforce back into pointless office buildings so that his mates can line their pockets with rent money?

Probably, yes!

I think he’s alluding to everyone who has been furloughed rather than those who have WFH. Thousands have been furloughed and whilst I accept those with children have had to homeschool, many haven’t and have essentially been paid to sit at home. Not their choice of course so I’m not slating them but I think that’s PM’s point. I don’t like him fwiw but I don’t think he said anything wrong here.

Working from home is better for most people and better for the environment. But it isn't better for commercial property owners, who prop up the Tory party and need businesses paying rent, so expect more of a push back to offices soon.

I’ve not had any days off, Boris Johnson, you arse!

It’s been bloody hard going thanks to your NOT getting a grip of COVID19 and skipping Cobra meetings.