This is disrespectful to women who have homeschooled and wfh?

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"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/

"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

Of course it is deeply insulting. But it's deeply insulting to everyone who has worked their arse off from home in the last year - some with few holidays because the workload has been too high.

Many people, however, have found that they do not want to return to the office and like working from home because it gives them a better work life balance. Of course that's freaking out the little Tory bots who think that it is going to cause the downfall of pret. What they don't see is that people at home will spend more money locally so it will be great for small towns, villages and even rural communities.

We can complain and moan all we like. The fact of the matter is that some very stupid people voted him in on a load of false promises and empty words. In a few years time people will forget this time and the vacuous twats who were elected this time will just come out with lies, sound bites and polish a few turds and the stupid people will vote for them again.

@SecretSpAD well of course- people only care about the unearned wealth from the property boom come election time & fuck everyone else. This country is utterly depressing and people just vote these entitled wankers in time after time after time. Drives me insane!

How lovely for our old chum Boris to be so open about his slacking off whilst MPs have been working from home. All MPs back to the House of Commons tomorrow then?

What a joke government agencies have been pushing for people to WFH for years.

The CMS still even answering their phone due to covid

.I think the government needs to practice what they preach

But hey, Priti Patel can spend £77k of tax payer money on her eyebrows and Boris can hand over £100k to Jenifer Arcuri for a shag. But let’s get the proles back to slaving away at the office shall we..,

I don't really get why it's offensive for WFH women who have homeschooled but not the other thousands of people who have worked from home? DH hasn't been taking days off and sitting the garden catching some days, he's worked every day he's paid to.

@Laughingstock91 No, let's blow up the Home Office twitter account and their piss-taking "factcheck" on ministerial spending, then get out on the streets burning tyres and getting rid of the arrogant, lying, smirking Norsefire scum.

Oh sorry, this is mumsnet. Surely £77k a bit steep for eyebrows?

@SleepingStandingUp

I don't really get why it's offensive for WFH women who have homeschooled but not the other thousands of people who have worked from home? DH hasn't been taking days off and sitting the garden catching some days, he's worked every day he's paid to.

I should have put an "especially" in there because of the double duty of wfh, homeschooling the kids, caring for shielding relations, and emotional support that most often falls to women.

But you're right. The Prime Minister said that about your husband just as much as anyone.

And I do accept that my friends who both work ft WFH with two kids have it harder than DH with a SAH wife and three kids!

He (BJ) is a muppet who needs to engage his brain before he speaks. Out of touch with reality.

@SleepingStandingUp

And I do accept that my friends who both work ft WFH with two kids have it harder than DH with a SAH wife and three kids!

It's been a rough year for us all lovely.

It would be nice to have a PM who acknowledged that.

Exactly - a lot of people have worked hard under horrible conditions and not even giving a passing mention in his "passing stab at getting back to the office" is deeply insulting.

But loads of people have been off work
Anyway he can chat all he likes

Most office workers won’t go back full time
Which screws commercial property
Who are the exact reason why they are saying this
Bye £600k lease
Hello cheaper shared working space

@Thisisworsethananticpated

But loads of people have been off work Anyway he can chat all he likes

Most office workers won’t go back full time
Which screws commercial property
Who are the exact reason why they are saying this
Bye £600k lease
Hello cheaper shared working space

Then a comment about furlough and knowing how desperate everyone is to get businesses going would have made him sound less like a dick

Yeah he’s not doing himself any favours. Fgs read the room Boris.

Tone deaf. Days off/ back to the office implies we've all had a jolly good pandemic and who would need another bank holiday - back to the office, what ho! Etc. This is a thinly veiled attempt to start rounding up the serfs back to the office where we can get back to spending our money on over priced coffee and sandwiches, fuel and train tickets to pay our huge mortgage on a house we're barely in whilst propping up his cronies rents in the commercial property business. Well quite frankly, Boris can stick his lashings of ginger beer rhetoric where his Enid Blyton doesn't shine.

Whether Rishi and Boris are motivated by concern for women or not, one thing's for certain. Permanent WFH will be hugely detrimental to the most vulnerable women. The workplace is often the best, sometimes only, escape route for those suffering domestic abuse.

@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.

Nailed it

@StormTreader

Exactly - a lot of people have worked hard under horrible conditions and not even giving a passing mention in his "passing stab at getting back to the office" is deeply insulting.

Yes. It is.

To all of us.

Many of us have had one of the worst years of our lives and Boris Johnson ^ made it sound as if we've all been skiving off on some jolly rather than doing what he told us to do by law.^

a passing stab - how patronising, whoever he meant to refer to

@TheSilveryPussycat

a passing stab - how patronising, whoever he meant to refer to

Yeah. Just rude.

@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.

He didn't say furloughed though did he?

He was asked if we could have a covid bank holiday presumably for everyone, and he said "People" which would require a "some" in front of it if he didn't mean all of us.

Not to nit-pick, but not to give him any undeserved benefit of the doubt either. .

He was talking about all of us.

He is a cunt. Why is anyone surprised when he says cunty things?

Noooooo, clearly on another planet

What would you all have said if you were asked “ should we have an extra bank holiday” then?

I think his comment was a reasonable lighthearted response.

Do you all think we should then?