Jacob Rees-Mogg’s cunning plan to get workers back in the office is to threaten to sell the offices

Not content with leaving passive-aggressive calling cards on the desks of working-from-home civil servants, Jacob Rees-Mogg has doubled down with a threat to rival King Lear’s “terrors of the Earth”.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned civil servants he will sell off their office space if they do not use it, in a threat which doubles down on his criticism of working from home, writes @AnushkaAsthanahttps://t.co/jGVC8tkqJU

— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) April 28, 2022

The man has six children. You’d think he’d understand threats a little better than that by now.

Tweeters pointed out the glaring error in his reasoning.

1.

IF YOU BOYS DON’T KNOCK IT OFF I’M TAKING YOU STRAIGHT TO DISNEYLAND https://t.co/BsCN3xLDsy

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 28, 2022

2.

Stop working remotely or I'll ensure you can only work remotely. https://t.co/NwDV2M3WNZ

— THE SECRET TORY 🗽 (@secrettory12) April 28, 2022

3.

No he won't, no he can't, no he doesn't want to and no it won't stop them from doing the thing he doesn't want them to do. Apart from that, cool story, bro. https://t.co/sQztoS9loP

— Nick Pettigrew🇺🇦 (@Nick_Pettigrew) April 28, 2022

4.

If you don't go back to that place you don't want to go we'll sell it so you can't go back to the place you don't want to go. https://t.co/K5vrBBnX9u

— Dan Bickell (@Deanzoz) April 28, 2022

5.

Money-grubbing white nationalist @Jacob_Rees_Mogg has ONE JOB – to find a benefit of Brexit. Instead of doing that he's fucking around bullying the clever people who do the actual work (civil servants) and endangering lives. Covid is out of control because of scum like him https://t.co/gqx0ZpkjtL

— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) April 28, 2022

6.

Oh no! Please Mister, please don't sell that office that I don't even want to go to. I don't know what I'd do if you did, oh yeah, I'd carry on exactly as I am doing you fucking idiot. https://t.co/KpWgXtgyfo

— Phlegm Clandango (@Cain_Unable) April 28, 2022

7.

"No, No, not the comfy chair" https://t.co/5fQNchj6oU pic.twitter.com/jaHGfPpfL3

— das_v (@dasvee) April 28, 2022

8.

I'm not sure he's thought this through, to be quite honest with you. https://t.co/L9wDYCuSbX

— rosamundi (@rosamundi) April 28, 2022

9.

why would he sell off the office space if he believes civil servants need to be in the office? wouldn't that cripple our country if he believes civil servants cannot deliver outside of the office? https://t.co/CvOxcPd62w

— hammy. (@iamhamesh) April 28, 2022

10.

I believe that a lot of the modern offices spaces are now rented rather than bought, possibly owned by large investment agencies.

Remind me what JRM does again? 🤔

— Kurst (@PaulinBolton) April 28, 2022

11.

Great news that civil servants will get flexible working and developers will get access to unused office space in central London. Could even be converted into housing (as a treat)! https://t.co/btZWfZVBgA

— Matt Kilcoyne (@MRJKilcoyne) April 28, 2022

12.

Who's going to buy them? Everybody else is working from home. https://t.co/SSKJ5yeM02

— Ann Coates (she/her) 🦕🦖 (@setoacnna) April 28, 2022

It looks as though the Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency might have forgotten his job description.

Selling unused and unnecessary office space would certainly be a government efficiency. We should maybe have a Minister looking into that kind of thing.

— Lee 🌻 (@politicabot) April 28, 2022

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