"Non-Functioning, Inefficient, Non-Working Civil Service!" | Julia Hartley-Brewer SLAMS Union Boss

[@jimh5031]

These civil servants refusing to go to work should give the job to someone that will lets face it most of them wouldn't work in an Iron Lung.

[@StephenDoherty-o7s]

Are all these civil servants still getting their LONDON allowance for not going to LONDON

[@paulmcnicholas3846]

Drain the swamp

[@johnwatson7120]

Get them back into work there’s a reason the economy is down the pan .

[@ianburden2851]

Civil service is not fit for purpose and should have an Elon musk type person to review it all and kick out those none effective

[@sammic7492]

Exactly and told if they don't like the changes, they know where the door is.

[@stuartnewman6968]

He's a civil servant so of course he is biased. He needs sacking along with most of the whole civil service

[@black5f]

Union full time, paid by the union for 30 years, not really employed.

[@chrisbeard1750]

This guy is a typical civil servant. And he's Scottish. Probably supports the SNP.

[@ronwoodronwood661]

I know people who work from home 😂they're laughing all the way to the bank

[@BP-of5cp]

Yes we are!😂 Better in my pockets than in the pockets of greedy Transport for London!

[@StuartNevin-ip1wg]

Typical denial from unions

[@janicevango5791]

Amen.

[@neilwade7663]

people who work in the private sector are productive....civil service are people who cant get a job in a productive sector.

[@GillianJones-q6q]

Yes exasperating trying to get hold of HMRC

[@ActeonEtharius]

“I’m so sorry for understanding maths!” - beautiful! Julia is absolutely right, this is typical civil service manipulation of figures right out of Yes Minister. Good for her not letting it stand.

[@nealhill5386]

For those in Central Goverment, have they given up their London weighting if they are working from home?

[@lucyallsop88]

Why are these non jobs not sacked 😠

[@jeancollins2009]

If the staff are not in the office we can presume that no young people are being trained to do these jobs in the future, no ? How can we help the youngsters if there is nobody in the office ? If office desks are empty the boss should assume they have left and promptly put their p45s in the post.

[@RonaldShea5680]

The Labour party's grotesque horror show continues unabated.

[@Pointman607]

You forgot they are also leftwing and woke.

[@user-yl1xy5eg7b]

Work is the correct address for "work", not home.

[@keithrn9447]

Working from home? Shirking from home more like it. Get them onto piece work or payment by / on results or paid for work done , not time work!

[@HenrySlade-i7r]

It doesn't affect productivity because they do ssod all when they are in the office

[@anthonybartlett6924]

i had an 11 month battle to get a new passport ( the old 1 had been expired by 10 years) she put every obstacle she could think of & made up a few new ones to stop me getting it. i sent a registered letter to the home office permanent sec. & cabinet sec threatening with legal action by not controlling their employees ( my previous registered letter to the home office complaints dept got no response ) i got a phone call from her could not have been more helpful new one arrived within 7 days .coincidence who knows.

[@anthonybartlett6924]

her being the civil servant bird @ the passport office

[@douglaslines4370]

I have known a number of people working in the Civil Service and they have all said that Absenteeism is rife.

[@AlanWatson]

You got him by the balls Julia - well done!

[@iancrowson2988]

My MP used to run a Council and on doorstep said that working only 4 days for 5 days pay was efficient. She got elected. I wrote to her in July, repeated in September and November. Guess when I got her reply? I haven’t, still waiting !!! What a …..

[@watchcommander2012]

The civil service needs a complete overhaul. Way back in Blair’s government the then home secretary John Reid said the Home Office was not fit for purpose yet here we are 30plus years later and nothing has changed they just got worse! All the other departments are just as bad. The wage bill is out of control and the productivity is down the pan.

[@suzannelipscombe589]

Something comes to mind with what he is saying...."bullshit baffles brains"

[@LordWalsallian]

Are these “civil service” jobs even required? Lets face it, if they have time to walk their dog, do shopping, do housework etc and work from home at the same time then they’re not doing their jobs properly, and they clearly aren’t productive.

[@omgitsabloodyandroid5161]

Put a breathalyzer unit on the home computer

[@Birdiewizard1]

Staff working from home is rubbish. No way are they doing a full days work.

[@robnewell2303]

yes, we are. You might be a shirker, but we're not

[@BP-of5cp]

​​@@robnewell2303we are indeed! He's just jealous!

[@andrewmthomson0191]

Maybe I am old fashioned but if you want to get paid - turn up to work!

[@kennethmcgill6161]

Well said Julia,their not productive and their part of why this country is in the state it is and as their civil servants they should all have to be in an office with management ensuring their working,its how it should be and we all do they do as little as possible.

[@johnbuckley6553]

What a slime ball.

[@andrewmthomson0191]

Well business gets taxed into the ground to pay for it.

[@jamietaylor7975]

sack the 31%

[@openbabel]

Perhaps you could comment ? My friend went this week for an insurance claim assessment centre for whiplash accidents . 90% of people waiting were from Rumania and Albania. Why do these nationalities have more whiplash injuries claims than ordinary UK citizens ? Answers on a billboard to Westminster, please.!

[@1ForTheShieldz]

I logged on to work at midnight and worked for free till 2am. You think I'll do that in an office? No. Working at home is NOT a problem.

[@patjohnson-u8m]

Another plonker making excuses. The civil service are not doing their jobs that they should be doing. Completely competent.

[@suzannelipscombe589]

I bet he works from home.....

[@patricktracey7424]

they sold the desks then there argument is if people came back to the office we would have to buy new desks which would cost more than the ones we sold.

[@openbabel]

Some jobs are suited for working from home, some not, others will benefit by increased productivity, some not. Overall figures increase as that balance changes. No one is going to return to the office when the Tories put up train fares and the labour wants to put them up even further...a complete disaster when they should be reduced by 30% How are local authorities and hospitals going to get blind severely disabled persons to hospital and services when disability benefits have not been put up to reflect this tax on passengers? The law requires a equivalent benefits rise to pay for essential travel for severely disabled groups, which by law are required to travel paid for by government. Great efficiency savings are now required to be made as this is not an exclusive private transport system for the rich, its a mass transit system to create growth in the economy Clearly driverless trains should now be brought in and increases in disability for the blind and severely disabled UK citizens only of 25% as assessed in law..

[@BP-of5cp]

Exactly! I'm perfectly happy going twice a week and still spend more money traveling those 2 days than what I spent 5 years ago going 5 days in the office. No thanks! It's cheaper to fly London-Dublin than to take a train from central London to the outskirts or surrounding towns.

[@brianthesnail3815]

I have worked for government and in the private sector and for myself at various times in my life. Currently I am back working for government again. Productivity has fallen for a fairly simple reason. There has been a big increase in numbers of civil servants but output has not. There is a complex set of reasons and only one of them is WFH. Part of it is poor management, increased bureacracy and far too many meeting which leads to wasted effort. Also very slow decision making by ministers and redoing work that has already been done.

[@Laetitia-rc8sg]

They have been told to mock their work colleagues

[@Laetitia-rc8sg]

I wonder if they use bananas 🍌

[@starsail85]

More phone calls due to too many people and half arsed home workers . Cba attitude is rife

[@janethart123]

typically from union bull

[@williampoole1080]

Bet a lot of mouse jigglers have been sold

[@sammic7492]

Mouse jigglers are no good, work laptops have several ways of monitoring so those who jiggle mouse are actually more visible than those who don't bother.

[@black5f]

There have always people that have WFH. Most private companies have brought people back to the office. Most of the civil service was not working before WFH? You are interviewing someone who left his job in the civil service 30 years ago to be full time employed by the union?

[@PhilipHughes-wp3vm]

Well Mr General Secretary of the FDA Union, whatever that stands for ? Here's a little nugge t for you, if there wasn't a private sector who PAY taxes, there wouldn't be a Public one. BTW, I note your Scottish twang. How's dreamland in Scotland going right now? Down the pan is the answer.

[@patricktracey7424]

covid was a great excuse for the public service workforce to skive off at home. likewise the civil service, politicians, teachers, etc. even the police thought about it lets face it no one would notice if they did unless you got an arrest email for tweeting.

[@oldshiny3012]

simple cut the budgets of each and every civil service office who have workers working from home . after why waste money on those empty office spaces , my guess with cut budgets looming those office spaces would quickly fill up

[@topfour9160]

This is why our energy bills are high, due to every one working from home, energy companies losing out on business rates, even council workers are all at home councils have sold all there office premises, this is why we have energy prices through the roof 😡

[@BP-of5cp]

Still not as high as paying 5 days for the ridiculous transport costs. I'm fine with the bills. At least gas and electricity it's something I AM using to make my day comfortable. Paying a ticket £15-25 one way for a 50 min journey standing squeezed like a sardine next to some moron who hasn't showered in a month? Take my money British Gas! I really don't care 😂

[@MrAckers75]

Why would he be honest..hes part of it lol We did a study and decided to stay at home😂😂😂 I must remember to tell the lads to not bother laying them bricks…do it from home instead!

[@masktwitcher]

He is talking absolute sheeeeeeeeeeee-***.

[@MrDunkycraig]

Ive been waiting 9 months for a reply from the DWP! Theyve never been late on there deadlines before you cant contact them. All you get is a 3 monthly text saying we have your form.

[@Greylobster]

Maybe get a job

[@PiersPlowperson]

Julia, did you just say, 'the home of common sense'? You all must have a jolly good laugh when the cameras are off. Let's also remember that it was Thatcher and the gang that told us that privatising things was good. The private sector ensures competition and innovation. Remember all that? If we nationalise things, Julia, we'll all be communists before we know it. I suspect the objective here isn't to make sense at all. It's just to keep bleating on about how awful everything is.

[@Celtictribes]

@@PiersPlowperson AHH yet another common as muck socialist troll.