Sutton comedy star worries whether going to the office will cost him £10,000?

That’s because we were being told that last week.

This week we’re being told to work from home.

Michael Gove was interviewed on the TV and he called it a, ‘slight shift in emphasis.”

It wasn’t that long we were told that if we didn’t get back into the office, we might be easier to sack.

Now they’re telling us to work from home again.

It’s less of a slight shift of emphasis and more like a 180-degree turn.

I’d love to see Michael Gove commentating on rally driving.

He would excitedly tell us about the moment the driver pulled up the handbrake as he went round the corner, performing a stunning slight shift in emphasis.

Even if this coronavirus hadn’t happened, working from home should be allowed anyway.

We don’t have to be facing a global pandemic to find a way to spend less of our lives in traffic.

The real problem is that home-workers don’t pop into a coffee shop for spend a tenner on a drink and sandwich.

Those purchases keep the economy going.

I’ll meet the economy halfway.

If I am working from home I will recreate a coffee shop experience.

I can make my own coffee, I can try to force myself to have a muffin too and then throw seven quid away.

I know it’s a shame for the towns.

Whenever I go into the centre of Sutton it’s sad to see so many shops closed – it looks like Outram Street did a few years ago.

I try to remember that if we head back to a full lockdown, the situation will be worse and some of those shops will stay closed permanently.

If you went back to work, I am not saying it is your fault.

You were putting the effort in and following the advice we were given.

Don’t lose heart because at some point in the future will we need to have that attitude again.

It feels like a moment where the people who tried to get us back into the office should admit they were wrong but that never happens these days.

Politicians insist they were right before and they’re right now they’re saying the total opposite.

If they get things wrong, they deny it.

If we get things wrong, we risk a £10,000 fine.

I don’t know why I’m so angry about working from home.

I don’t have any work at the moment anyway.

Steve N Allen is a comedian and broadcaster who was raised in Sutton-in-Ashfield. He currently stars in The Mash Report on BBC2.