Why not commission five then; would still cost a fraction of what will be spaffed on the lockdown, HS2 and bailing out the populous because of forty years on incompetence?
How long before all those workers demanding to work-from-home post pandemic, demand to be allowed to come into a warm office when energy prices go up further this winter?
If you work from home, you can claim the costs of heat and light against tax can't you? People will legitimately claim more, surely. Why do Tories hate the idea of people working from home so much?
Apparently Rees Mogg’s ranting and creeping around trying to bully civil servants back into the office has failed so completely that the government can now sell off some redundant estate. He’ll be Business Secretary or something like that under Truss. Redwood will be back after 30 years to close down the Treasury, which he has a manic obsession with.
And they call this a zombie government! The company my son works for had two floors in a very nice office building in Farringdon. Post Covid, their employees stiil work mainly from home and they've cut down to one floor, saving £1m per annum in business rates alone. I don't know what the rent saving is, but if the floor remains empty the landlords will be landed with the business rates as well as the lost rental income. Conservatives, the party for downtrodden landlords.
Some have a vested interest due to owning commercial property but most are just absolute ****ing mugs spoon-fed their beliefs by the Express.
I assume you aren’t referring to the nurses, doctors, firemen, policemen, paramedics, soldiers etc that are paid for from taxation and are therefore civil servants, but are focussed on the people who work in Whitehall, who’s job is to implement the policies designed and decided by politicians? Because they don’t trust people to work unless they have someone looking over their shoulder perhaps. Remember The Trap? It’s that kind of mentality, no one can ever be trusted. They will be delighted by the spyware used by increasing numbers of companies to monitor how many hours people sit in front of their screens. Unnecessary and stupid unless you think being physically present is more important than results, measure inputs rather than outcomes. Anyway, WFH is 13% more productive for those jobs where it makes sense, according to those hippy liberals at Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-02/are-workers-more-productive-at-home
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2...and-aide-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-reports Weird this gets no mention. Men in positions of power accused of abusing women, hardly an isolated incident, not even rare. Considering how people seem to be concerned over the safety of females, I’m a little surprised it’s something nobody seems interested in.
You can claim about a third as relief apparently. Still 2/3rds of a big bill to bear, as opposed to turning everything off in the weekdays.
Civil servants are employed by the Crown, so those you itemise in the public sector are not civil servants.
It's a major issue in and around Parliament. It was the final straw that led to Boris Johnson's resignation. Not limited to any one party, no doubt the current allegations will be independently investigated. And then it will happen again...
