Teachers must work five days a week, says Farage (who rarely turns up to work)

“It provides lack of continuity, lack of example, lack of leadership – it is a truly dreadful idea and it seems, whether it’s reducing to four days a week, whether it’s the civil service working from home, this government just doesn’t get it, but I think parents all over the country will.”

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The video was captioned: “Under Reform UK, teachers and all public servants will be expected to work just as much as the rest of us.”

But does that rest of us include one Nigel Farage – who very rarely turns up to the place of work for which he is paid £98,599?

The leader of Reform has spoken just 10 times in the House of Commons this year and not tabled a single written question (his most recent was in February 2025, 20 months ago). Since being elected as an MP he has managed to miss 66.5% of all votes which have taken place, which places him in the bottom 10% of MPs, and he has yet to hold a single in-person MP’s surgery since first being elected in July 2024.

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Earlier this year he failed to cast a single vote in Parliament for almost 11 weeks, not attending a single one in April or May. And when he was re-elected this summer following an unnecessary and expensive by-election against a man with a bin on his head, he boasted he planned to attend his ostensible place of work even less often in future.

“Look – let’s be honest about it, you know, we’re not a big party in the House of Commons, and size of party is where precedence comes in the big debates, so I’ll be here doing my stuff, but really, you know, it’ll be Richard Tice and the rest of the gang doing more of the work in here as I travel round the country and, in fact, I’m even planning another tour of the country,” he told his actual paymasters at GB News.

Under Reform UK, teachers and all public servants will be expected to work just as much as the rest of us? If teachers follow Farage’s example, pupils will be lucky to see them every couple of months!