Farage has been urging local councils that Reform (sort of) control after the May 1st elections to issue diktats that all Council employees must work in the office 5 days a week. As Byline Times has revealed there is an issue with this. In order to save money on office accommodation many council’s have reduced the amount of office space with the assumption that hybrid working will allow for a balance. If staff have to return to the office there are just not enough desks.
Such practical details are unlikely to worry Farage but in an interview with the Sunday Times (29th June) he does repeat the mantra that COVID lockdowns were bad because they encourage home working.
The interview finds Farage not in the Commons (of course) but in his ‘unofficial’ office, which is Boisdale off Vauxhall Bridge Rd in central London.
Farage is eating Lamb and Kidney pudding (Suffolk lamb, suet crust, claret gravy) £34.50 which he describes as a ‘proper fucking lunch’ and drinking claret (note not beer). Despite unevidenced occasional claims (see the Guardian) that Farage hardly drinks now, the interview which contains the usual range of random Farage ‘thoughts’ about reforming Parliament (how he would know since he has the second worse attendance record of any MP one wonders) suggests that his in the office lunch may have included more than bottle of claret (Boisdale claret 2022 £54 a bottle).
Boisdale is a Scottish themed restaurant and whine bar with, crucially, for Farage a smoking terrace
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