Plays to the older voter who never worked from home
Harrry-Otter on
Aside from the commercial landlords aspect, probably because most of their voters are either manual workers or retired manual workers. They probably think it’s a bit unfair that someone can work their job from their spare room while they have to haul themselves up and down the M1, so it’s an easy disgruntlement to target.
Ruin_In_The_Dark on
I am pretty sure Farage was working from home when he paid tribute to his dear friend Ian Watkins.
nerdyPagaman on
If you don’t know what to do, start a divisive culture war.
Ok-Witness4724 on
Because they’re twats.
Nice and easy answer there for you.
CheesyBakedLobster on
It’s the “own the libs” mentality combined with nostalgic “young people these days…” bullshit. Some want to hurt others because they are losers; others think the world has gone to shit because of changes, and turning the clock back to the ways things were in their days must be the right way, because they see themselves as the benchmark for being right and proper.
bio4m on
Combination of a few things
1) WFH tends to be white collar workers, their base is blue collar or unemployed
2) Commercial interests: blue collar work increases if white collar workers are forced back to work (more cafe workers, more train drivers, more truck drivers to deliver goods to now busy services industries etc etc)
3) The folks who are WFH arent as likely to be Reform voters so nothing to lose by pissing them off
alfius-togra on
Because crushing anything good and precious in this world is their entire purpose.
Hirogen10 on
I’ve realised one simple thing about WFH concept it’s actually more about having your own office rather than open plan, not just about picking up the kids and dropping them off and so on or saving money on the commute, I’d argue having your own office and not a long commute was pretty normal over 35-45 years ago which wasn’t that long ago!
Alternative-Win4058 on
Farage and his backers have a lot of money invested in commercial real estate, which has lost a lot of value since the WFH boom.
Simple as that.
Boldboy72 on
none of these people have ever had to stand at a bus stop in driving rain at 7am waiting for a bus that might not come to arrive at a tube station that’s closed because of a technical difficulty forcing them to find another method to get to the office where your commute that should take less than an hour is now 2 hours long
And then repeat that in the evening but just in reverse.
They get collected on company expense. Driven to their office and then collected later when they’re going home. Some will drive themselves as they have a parking space in their Canary Wharf office, so they never have to worry about the weather or delays.
Nigel doesn’t appear to have an office anywhere. He skips parliament for jollies to America. Will do a speech anywhere (for cash) so long as it isn’t his constituency.
messiah-of-cheese on
Corruption, oldies invested heavily in office blocks which are worth shit atm.
twoddle_puddle on
Because the majority of their voter base has never worked from home so don’t understand it.
Come-jive-with-me on
Someone should say, “If Farage (and all the other Reform MP) dont miss any of their required Parliament appearances. We will cancel Wfh”
lNFORMATlVE on
So rich twats can control and exploit worker freedoms more.
Significant_Sale6172 on
Maybe all of these “entrepreneurial, innovative” companies should have seen the obvious technological developments coming and not invested in so much redundant wasteful office space?
Sleepywalker69 on
Cause all their mates own the private buildings that will need renting.
Cute-Cat-2351 on
It’s just a divisive issue. I’m guessing they think they can set their voters, who are mainly lower on the social scale and have jobs that have to be done in situ (trades) against the middle classes who they envy. In real terms, the wfh situation is an issue that should be left for employers and employees to resolve. It certainly is not for governments to bother themselves with.
50_61S-----165_97E on
Because people who commute are consumers, they spend money on fuel, rail tickets, vehicles, maintenance, parking, lunch etc. Also their workplace probably rents real estate.
Nigel and his wealthy mates are heavily invested in the companies that serve these consumers. Wfh removes this commuter income stream.
Mean-Dinner-8780 on
Because they’re idiots.
It probably is true that home workers are less productive. But if that’s the deal they have with their employers, and both sides are happy, why is Farage sticking his nose in to that arrangement.
It’s “kids these days” boomer bullshit. I am very concerned that a Reform government will go off on tangents doing all sorts of nonsense like this.
SnaggleFish on
They behave more like a paid lobbying firm… policies are driven by funding…
Dapper_Big_783 on
There’s an irony that Charlie Mullins reform supporter says to end work from home while he’s sat on a beach.
TheObrien on
It’s not just WFH though, it’s rolling back decades of workers rights, primarily safe in the knowledge that the current generation of workers and future workers don’t understand the value of Unions, and generally are anti-union.
As a result, they’ll be able to unwind a lot of these laws quickly, knowing the public will be largely silent.
Want proof? Look at the US, that is exactly the same approach.
Dal1970 on
They have no beliefs, or policies – it is just the National Front by another name, and just as clueless. They will say anything to get a reaction
KL_boy on
Politics of spite. Their core voters are unhappy that they have to go to work at an office as a cashier, while the woke, trans, LGBTQ, immigrant software engineer can work from home.
They also use it as an excuse on why “Britain is not working” anymore. Simple solutions to address complex problems so it looks like they going to fix all the problems in the country.
Expect more of these idiotic but easy sounding solution to address the country’s problem.
Jimbobthon on
If I’d be guessing, I’d be guessing a lot of landlords have property that needs filling. We know that some members of the public based on reports think those that Work from Home are lazy and don’t do anything. You only need to read comment sections on different news outlets to see this.
Working from Home has many benefits as we know
anonnymouse2025 on
Because they can’t bear people enjoying life if they don’t also get it
ChrisXDXL on
Because them and their mates own commercial property which is sitting empty because working from home leads to less people needing office space.
Lucky-Onion-5586 on
Because they are a shower of horrible cunts , supported by useless cunts who dont work or cant ever aspire to having a job that allows them to wfh.and funded by American cunts who want civilised countries like ours to be as poor, exhausted and sick as theirs is.
BoringWozniak on
It’s a relatively recent cultural addition designed to make the lives of worker collar workers easier, so it’s easy for Reform to label it woke nonsense as it’s non-traditional and helps them whip up resentment among people doing so-called “working class” jobs that don’t lend themselves to remote work.
Mrgray123 on
Reform are an astroturf political party funded by oligarchs and run by a motley crew of far-right ex-Tories eager to do their bidding so they will always do what is good for businesses and not good for ordinary people while relying on the votes of millions of morons.
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If I had to guess it would be because Tice has an extensive commercial property portfolio and needs people to be filling it…
Something something rich commercial property owners lobbying right wing cunts.
Next candidate to praise and donate reform – Alan sugar.
At a guess they’re being paid by the car parking lobby?
They probably see it as woke or some shit and their core voter base are in manual jobs.
Follow the money. commercial property and MAGA backers don’t like it.
Aside from the commercial landlord fuckery, part of the appeal of Reform is just being nasty for the sake of it.
People who are angered by people having a work life balance.
Honestly you need help if you strongly object to others working from home.
Elon already did this grift over in the US
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/05/16/elon-musk-work-from-home-morally-wrong-when-some-have-to-show-up.html
Just copying his US overlords
Plays to the older voter who never worked from home
Aside from the commercial landlords aspect, probably because most of their voters are either manual workers or retired manual workers. They probably think it’s a bit unfair that someone can work their job from their spare room while they have to haul themselves up and down the M1, so it’s an easy disgruntlement to target.
I am pretty sure Farage was working from home when he paid tribute to his dear friend Ian Watkins.
If you don’t know what to do, start a divisive culture war.
Because they’re twats.
Nice and easy answer there for you.
It’s the “own the libs” mentality combined with nostalgic “young people these days…” bullshit. Some want to hurt others because they are losers; others think the world has gone to shit because of changes, and turning the clock back to the ways things were in their days must be the right way, because they see themselves as the benchmark for being right and proper.
Combination of a few things
1) WFH tends to be white collar workers, their base is blue collar or unemployed
2) Commercial interests: blue collar work increases if white collar workers are forced back to work (more cafe workers, more train drivers, more truck drivers to deliver goods to now busy services industries etc etc)
3) The folks who are WFH arent as likely to be Reform voters so nothing to lose by pissing them off
Because crushing anything good and precious in this world is their entire purpose.
I’ve realised one simple thing about WFH concept it’s actually more about having your own office rather than open plan, not just about picking up the kids and dropping them off and so on or saving money on the commute, I’d argue having your own office and not a long commute was pretty normal over 35-45 years ago which wasn’t that long ago!
Farage and his backers have a lot of money invested in commercial real estate, which has lost a lot of value since the WFH boom.
Simple as that.
none of these people have ever had to stand at a bus stop in driving rain at 7am waiting for a bus that might not come to arrive at a tube station that’s closed because of a technical difficulty forcing them to find another method to get to the office where your commute that should take less than an hour is now 2 hours long
And then repeat that in the evening but just in reverse.
They get collected on company expense. Driven to their office and then collected later when they’re going home. Some will drive themselves as they have a parking space in their Canary Wharf office, so they never have to worry about the weather or delays.
Nigel doesn’t appear to have an office anywhere. He skips parliament for jollies to America. Will do a speech anywhere (for cash) so long as it isn’t his constituency.
Corruption, oldies invested heavily in office blocks which are worth shit atm.
Because the majority of their voter base has never worked from home so don’t understand it.
Someone should say, “If Farage (and all the other Reform MP) dont miss any of their required Parliament appearances. We will cancel Wfh”
So rich twats can control and exploit worker freedoms more.
Maybe all of these “entrepreneurial, innovative” companies should have seen the obvious technological developments coming and not invested in so much redundant wasteful office space?
Cause all their mates own the private buildings that will need renting.
It’s just a divisive issue. I’m guessing they think they can set their voters, who are mainly lower on the social scale and have jobs that have to be done in situ (trades) against the middle classes who they envy. In real terms, the wfh situation is an issue that should be left for employers and employees to resolve. It certainly is not for governments to bother themselves with.
Because people who commute are consumers, they spend money on fuel, rail tickets, vehicles, maintenance, parking, lunch etc. Also their workplace probably rents real estate.
Nigel and his wealthy mates are heavily invested in the companies that serve these consumers. Wfh removes this commuter income stream.
Because they’re idiots.
It probably is true that home workers are less productive. But if that’s the deal they have with their employers, and both sides are happy, why is Farage sticking his nose in to that arrangement.
It’s “kids these days” boomer bullshit. I am very concerned that a Reform government will go off on tangents doing all sorts of nonsense like this.
They behave more like a paid lobbying firm… policies are driven by funding…
There’s an irony that Charlie Mullins reform supporter says to end work from home while he’s sat on a beach.
It’s not just WFH though, it’s rolling back decades of workers rights, primarily safe in the knowledge that the current generation of workers and future workers don’t understand the value of Unions, and generally are anti-union.
As a result, they’ll be able to unwind a lot of these laws quickly, knowing the public will be largely silent.
Want proof? Look at the US, that is exactly the same approach.
They have no beliefs, or policies – it is just the National Front by another name, and just as clueless. They will say anything to get a reaction
Politics of spite. Their core voters are unhappy that they have to go to work at an office as a cashier, while the woke, trans, LGBTQ, immigrant software engineer can work from home.
They also use it as an excuse on why “Britain is not working” anymore. Simple solutions to address complex problems so it looks like they going to fix all the problems in the country.
Expect more of these idiotic but easy sounding solution to address the country’s problem.
If I’d be guessing, I’d be guessing a lot of landlords have property that needs filling. We know that some members of the public based on reports think those that Work from Home are lazy and don’t do anything. You only need to read comment sections on different news outlets to see this.
Working from Home has many benefits as we know
Because they can’t bear people enjoying life if they don’t also get it
Because them and their mates own commercial property which is sitting empty because working from home leads to less people needing office space.
Because they are a shower of horrible cunts , supported by useless cunts who dont work or cant ever aspire to having a job that allows them to wfh.and funded by American cunts who want civilised countries like ours to be as poor, exhausted and sick as theirs is.
It’s a relatively recent cultural addition designed to make the lives of worker collar workers easier, so it’s easy for Reform to label it woke nonsense as it’s non-traditional and helps them whip up resentment among people doing so-called “working class” jobs that don’t lend themselves to remote work.
Reform are an astroturf political party funded by oligarchs and run by a motley crew of far-right ex-Tories eager to do their bidding so they will always do what is good for businesses and not good for ordinary people while relying on the votes of millions of morons.