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/

Who voted for this airhead buffoon

@SofiaMichelle You do not have to be hard-left to want a minimum of ethics and moral standards in your elected representatives. Keir Starmer is a failure also.

If the best people can do is shrug their shoulders and vote for more of the same, then that's what they'll get, with interest, even worse.

All this cringing apathy is massively failing our children.

@thepeopleversuswork

It’s incredibly disrespectful but what do you expect from someone like this?

The lockdown and home schools initiative was engineered by a government which constrains one female member and which is characterised by public school boys who have wives and domestic help to organise all that. They took as read when they closed schools that there will always be a woman at home scratching her arse with nothing better to do.

The lack of consideration for women throughout COVID had set us back about 30 years and if we want to regain any of the advances we have made we need to stop listening to the rhetoric from these clowns.

This is very true.

Not me.

I’ve never hated and I do mean, HATE, a Govt. so much.

Corrupt, misogynistic, racist, homophobic and despising of the UK public.

All this cringing apathy is massively failing our children.

It's not apathy. It's what people want whether or not you, or I, like it.

MN is an unrealistically left-leaning forum. More people want right-leaning, less compassionate government. So that's what we've got.

@FourWordsImMuNiTy

It’s a stupid thing for him to say, because it will wind up all the many people who’ve been overstretched for the last year, especially parents. But as a population we have had a huge amount of time off of course. I assumed he’s referring to everyone who’s been on furlough.

exactly this. Loads of people have been on furlough, or working from home, and many many of those have not been doing childcare/home ed alongside.

Aren’t his comments in response to “ can we have a bank holiday” though?

Boris has had no time off, a new baby and Covid so it’s not like he’s asking anyone to do anything special. I’ve also got to start my weekend job once the pubs open ( I’ve also got a full time job that I’ve had to go in for regardless of lockdown). Not looking forward to it in the slightest so I can see why others might be resistant for a return.

There are thousands of people who will not have the option to return to an office as Mr Johnson would like. People who have lost their jobs, and a proportion of them would have retained their job if the pandemic response had been adequate not weeks late in both March and September, as the periods of restrictions and homeschooling would have been shorter.

@UrAWizHarry there were plenty of other Brexiteers who the Tory MPs could have chosen. Michael Gove may be the rudest man in politics but his response to Covid would have meant far fewer deaths.

And we voted him in...

No, I didn't.

@SofiaMichelle

All this cringing apathy is massively failing our children.

It's not apathy. It's what people want whether or not you, or I, like it.

MN is an unrealistically left-leaning forum. More people want right-leaning, less compassionate government. So that's what we've got.

Bullshit. Most people in this country are so politically illiterate they don't even know we have a government voted by a minority with millions of votes wasted, and they certainly couldn't explain proportional representation to you. They don't do their political homework and they vote for proven liars. They're just lazy.

@PersimmonTree

Right... So we have the government we have because people are politically illiterate, lazy, and don't know what they were voting for? It can't possibly be that it's what more people wanted, can it?

Same with Brexit - so many people saying that the Leave voters didn't know what they were voting for. I was vehemently against leaving but that's not what the majority wanted.

We can't just say everyone is thick and too stupid to understand when they don't agree with us. It's what Labour tried and look at them now: they're finished as a party and will never be re-elected in our lifetimes, leaving us with the sort of government we've got now repeatedly getting into power.

Has anyone on the thread mentioned Jennifer Arcuri?

(can't be bothered to read 5 pages).

Finally spilled the beans to the Mirror today.

@rwalker

I know plenty of people who this applies to

Sure you do. 🙄

Yanbu

Don’t know how I’ve managed the last year

from a guy whose daily commute to the office is to come down stairs and he still cant even manage to brush his hair.

Has nothing at all to do with women homeschooling. I think you're being ridiculous. And no we don't need a public holiday.

*On Saturday, at the Conservatives' virtual spring forum, the prime minister was asked whether the UK can have a bank holiday called "national hangover day" once the pandemic subsides.

But Mr Johnson put down the suggestion, responding: "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."*

So - an answer to a question about an extra bank holiday, and not actually anything to do with women or homeschooling?

[quote SofiaMichelle]@PersimmonTree

Right... So we have the government we have because people are politically illiterate, lazy, and don't know what they were voting for? It can't possibly be that it's what more people wanted, can it?

Same with Brexit - so many people saying that the Leave voters didn't know what they were voting for. I was vehemently against leaving but that's not what the majority wanted.

We can't just say everyone is thick and too stupid to understand when they don't agree with us. It's what Labour tried and look at them now: they're finished as a party and will never be re-elected in our lifetimes, leaving us with the sort of government we've got now repeatedly getting into power.[/quote]
You prove my point exactly. Since when was 43.9% of the electorate a majority? You have absolutely no idea what PR is, or why we don't have it yet (because it suits the Tories to keep FPTP).

In a system as broken as ours, millions of people cannot get the political representation they want. Whether or not they've done their research.

Referendum not the same as an election. But millions were misinformed by the lying twat they then voted in as pm. Pretty hopeless mess, this country.

Yeh loving this sat here on a Sunday writing advice to government....days off are you joking?! Covid and Brexit put paid to that! Look around ya BoJo, we're still here!

@bluegreygreen

*On Saturday, at the Conservatives' virtual spring forum, the prime minister was asked whether the UK can have a bank holiday called "national hangover day" once the pandemic subsides.

But Mr Johnson put down the suggestion, responding: "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."*

So - an answer to a question about an extra bank holiday, and not actually anything to do with women or homeschooling?

But most people haven't had days off. And a lot of people, women in particular, have had two jobs - their job and trying to educate their kids.

@bluegreygreen

*On Saturday, at the Conservatives' virtual spring forum, the prime minister was asked whether the UK can have a bank holiday called "national hangover day" once the pandemic subsides.

But Mr Johnson put down the suggestion, responding: "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."*

So - an answer to a question about an extra bank holiday, and not actually anything to do with women or homeschooling?

I think it is clearly implied that it is the fault of the people themselves that they are not in the office.

Whereas actually it is mostly his bloody fault the country had to lockdown for so bloody long this time round, the useless article

I don't have children but I've still worked longer hours than ever before working from home. I'm also desperate to get back to the office as I live alone and can go weeks without seeing anyone I know.

They were doing this last autumn. They want a return to the office because homeworking is affecting other areas of the economy. After a few weeks they did a u-turn and told people to work from home 🙄