It’s amazing to see how he wants to do this to save the taxpayers money yet he costs the tax payer nearly £250,000 a year and doesn’t disclose his earnings as a landlord.
As for attacking FCA staff… I work in compliance for a large insurance company and every new joiner we’ve had who has previous FCA experience has joined the company in a senior manager role on, what I would imagine to be, double their FCA salary. And they can work from home as little or as often as they like.
I’m not sure if he’s just stupid or he’s actively trying to get people to leave.
He’s suddenly onboard, now he’s realised he can sell valuable property at a knockdown rate to his and his mate’s investment funds.
He asks why the tax payer has to “fork out for these buildings” that are under used. I would argue that if we own them, the maintenance is fairly cheap compared to their cost, and maybe we should hold on to them for a bit. Rather than sell to JRM’s private equity friends for development. The pandemic has only been over for 10 minutes, why make decisions on the future of public services right now.
Notice how he is only concerned about selling Government owned buildings. However does not care about stopping all the countless millions spent on government renting offices.
It’s almost like this is going to be sold to his mates for dirt cheap prices and then the civil service still being told they need an office in london and oh look you just have to pay millions renting the exact same building from moggys mates.
Sell them to his buddies, have to buy them back for more in two years.
Where are the hubs that are mentioned in the article, which replace the sold offices?
He’s not very good at ‘forcing people back’ is he?
so rather than keep them and rent them out to make free money for the public purse, hes going to sell them to a mate who will rent them out to make free money for themselves.
Government really shouldn’t be able to sell state assets without voting in parliament
Must …sell… public… property 😵
‘Im a petulant man-child, those mean civil wont do what I want. I’ll sell their office, poo-poo them.’
How they gonna go back to the office now you daft cunt
They really need to get rid of this out of touch toff.
At least he’s given up on trying to force people back into the office. I never want to return to the office, even when I’m asked one day a month to go back, I don’t like it.
Surprise surprise why he was so vocally against work for home!
Why sell them when they can be rented out for long term income????? come on mr efficiency minister, how am I, a pleb, outdoing your *great* public school intellect?
How this fucking cartoon of a man has any responsibility is beyond me. I’ll bet 20 quid they get sold to tory donors/mates at cut down prices.
I thought he was trying to force them back to the office
They’ll sell them for cheap to their real estate billionaire mates who will then rent them back to the government in a few years’ time for a premium.
As far as I understood there is not enough spaces in the offices they already have in London.
This is just a way of punishing WFH by cutting the London weighting from WFH civil service jobs badging them as non-London.
Of course, what will happen is that these jobs will still need to come in to London occasionally so the whole policy will end up costing more due to renting and booking rooms, but likely the staff will get paid a little less so it’s all right.
All he wants to do is punish. He has no ideas but how to make life worse for anyone he dislikes.
Tories flogging our stuff again. The problem with conservatism is that eventually you run out of public assets to sell.
How obsurd. Eventually work from home will go away all together and they will need to buy those offices back, except they’ll be spending 3 times as much money to buy them back.
ALL Government spending should be justified *and scrutinized* Rees-Mogg…it it had properly been during your tenure, we wouldn’t now have debts in excess of GDP, as opposed to 40% of GDP when your tenure began.
Turn the empty offices into MPs London residence flats, get rid of their 2nd home expenses problem.
Why do you think millionaires want to be MPs it is not that they want to help others.
Oh dear what a shame, never mind.
And he will pocket a “Handlers fee” that happens to be at least, half of it because the damn peasents refused to obey his demands to work in the offices.
Isn’t he the brexit opportunity minister
Family made millions by using slave labour digging out copper in Somerset, he’s had nastiness bred into him.
Hopefully they will become affordable houses
I suppose he is defeated in his wish for staff to stop working from home.
I wonder if by chance the new property owners will be supporters of the Conservative Party.
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It’s amazing to see how he wants to do this to save the taxpayers money yet he costs the tax payer nearly £250,000 a year and doesn’t disclose his earnings as a landlord.
As for attacking FCA staff… I work in compliance for a large insurance company and every new joiner we’ve had who has previous FCA experience has joined the company in a senior manager role on, what I would imagine to be, double their FCA salary. And they can work from home as little or as often as they like.
I’m not sure if he’s just stupid or he’s actively trying to get people to leave.
He’s suddenly onboard, now he’s realised he can sell valuable property at a knockdown rate to his and his mate’s investment funds.
He asks why the tax payer has to “fork out for these buildings” that are under used. I would argue that if we own them, the maintenance is fairly cheap compared to their cost, and maybe we should hold on to them for a bit. Rather than sell to JRM’s private equity friends for development. The pandemic has only been over for 10 minutes, why make decisions on the future of public services right now.
Notice how he is only concerned about selling Government owned buildings. However does not care about stopping all the countless millions spent on government renting offices.
It’s almost like this is going to be sold to his mates for dirt cheap prices and then the civil service still being told they need an office in london and oh look you just have to pay millions renting the exact same building from moggys mates.
Who exactly does this moron think is going to buy them? There’s already [excess capacity](https://www.ft.com/content/7809d637-f5a2-4933-a41e-c94e0441df6f) in the market.
Oh, I was unaware that they belong to him
Sell them to his buddies, have to buy them back for more in two years.
Where are the hubs that are mentioned in the article, which replace the sold offices?
He’s not very good at ‘forcing people back’ is he?
so rather than keep them and rent them out to make free money for the public purse, hes going to sell them to a mate who will rent them out to make free money for themselves.
Government really shouldn’t be able to sell state assets without voting in parliament
Must …sell… public… property 😵
‘Im a petulant man-child, those mean civil wont do what I want. I’ll sell their office, poo-poo them.’
How they gonna go back to the office now you daft cunt
They really need to get rid of this out of touch toff.
At least he’s given up on trying to force people back into the office. I never want to return to the office, even when I’m asked one day a month to go back, I don’t like it.
Surprise surprise why he was so vocally against work for home!
Why sell them when they can be rented out for long term income????? come on mr efficiency minister, how am I, a pleb, outdoing your *great* public school intellect?
How this fucking cartoon of a man has any responsibility is beyond me. I’ll bet 20 quid they get sold to tory donors/mates at cut down prices.
I thought he was trying to force them back to the office
They’ll sell them for cheap to their real estate billionaire mates who will then rent them back to the government in a few years’ time for a premium.
As far as I understood there is not enough spaces in the offices they already have in London.
This is just a way of punishing WFH by cutting the London weighting from WFH civil service jobs badging them as non-London.
Of course, what will happen is that these jobs will still need to come in to London occasionally so the whole policy will end up costing more due to renting and booking rooms, but likely the staff will get paid a little less so it’s all right.
All he wants to do is punish. He has no ideas but how to make life worse for anyone he dislikes.
Tories flogging our stuff again. The problem with conservatism is that eventually you run out of public assets to sell.
How obsurd. Eventually work from home will go away all together and they will need to buy those offices back, except they’ll be spending 3 times as much money to buy them back.
ALL Government spending should be justified *and scrutinized* Rees-Mogg…it it had properly been during your tenure, we wouldn’t now have debts in excess of GDP, as opposed to 40% of GDP when your tenure began.
Turn the empty offices into MPs London residence flats, get rid of their 2nd home expenses problem.
Why do you think millionaires want to be MPs it is not that they want to help others.
Oh dear what a shame, never mind.
And he will pocket a “Handlers fee” that happens to be at least, half of it because the damn peasents refused to obey his demands to work in the offices.
Isn’t he the brexit opportunity minister
Family made millions by using slave labour digging out copper in Somerset, he’s had nastiness bred into him.
Hopefully they will become affordable houses
I suppose he is defeated in his wish for staff to stop working from home.
I wonder if by chance the new property owners will be supporters of the Conservative Party.
Preferably at a discount to his rich buddies?