Jacob’s right: get back to the office
IT’S been claimed that a note left by Jacob Rees-Mogg on the office desks of those working at home undermines civil servants. Taxpayers don’t see any leadership being shown in the civil service, rather there appears to be a reluctance to get on with providing a professional service to society. More power to Mr Rees-Mogg. Let’s see just how necessary 90,000 civil servants really are.
DES MORGAN, Swindon, Wilts. JACOB REES-MOGG justifies patrolling government departments and leaving letters on empty desks in terms of monitoring efficiency. In fact, he is behaving like a Dickensian headmaster with little knowledge of how ordinary people live. I agree the DVLA has not operated efficiently, because I waited nine months for my licence after notifying it of a change of address. However, I believe many government departments are working productively at home. I would suggest Mr Rees-Mogg focuses his attention on MPs to ensure they are value for money for taxpayers.
JANICE OVERAL, address supplied. HIGH salaries, London weighting and no travel expenses. No wonder civil servants don’t want to go back to their offices. Neither would I!
KEITH JEFFERY, Chatham, Kent.
WHAT’S the point of putting letters on office desks if the recipients are at home?
JANICE SMITH, Rotherham, S. Yorks. ONCE Jacob Rees-Mogg has sorted out the civil service, perhaps he could reform the House of Lords. If you or I went to work and slept through the proceedings, do you think we would be paid?
SUE SAXON, Haslingden, Lancs. ARROGANT, entitled and deliberately disconnected from reality, I consider Jacob Rees-Mogg’s views about 21st-century working practices to be as relevant as his irritating facade of 18th-century eccentricity.
G. MATTHEWS, Lancaster. WELL done, Jacob Rees-Mogg, for ordering the civil service to return to their Whitehall offices. If they want to continue to work from home, they should lose their London weighting allowance.
JUNE KARTRIEBER, Cheam, Surrey. AS LONG as the work is done, let civil servants work from home. But stop their London allowance.
BRIAN FORD, Rainham, Essex. BORIS is re-opening the British Embassy in Kyiv, but I bet all the civil servants will be working from home.
MAURICE O’BRIEN, Tilehurst, Berks.