Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35186511)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-12640636

So plans are being suggested to make St George's Day a bank holiday to create a 'National Day'. Great idea! As long as they do the same for the dates of St David, Andrew and Patrick then?

What an awesome way to create anti-English feeling :dozey:

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35186528)

St Andrew's day and St Patrick's day are bank holidays IIRC.

Originally Posted by Paul

Did you have to link to the mobile site report?? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12640636
Nice of you to miss out the bit where they may use a date in October instead of St G's day

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35186530)

They're not national bank holidays, as is being proposed.




No I didn't miss that part - why mention St George's day at all? If that's going to be a bank holiday then good, I support it just as long as the other home nations get our patron saints' days off too.

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35186511)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-12640636

So plans are being suggested to make St George's Day a bank holiday to create a 'National Day'. Great idea! As long as they do the same for the dates of St David, Andrew and Patrick then?

What an awesome way to create anti-English feeling :dozey:

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35186511)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-12640636

So plans are being suggested to make St George's Day a bank holiday to create a 'National Day'. Great idea! As long as they do the same for the dates of St David, Andrew and Patrick then?

What an awesome way to create anti-English feeling :dozey:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35186563)

Personally I think the more significant development here is the fact that they have dropped the 'double summer time' proposals from the policy paper.

I really didn't fancy the thought of it not being full daylight until almost 10am here in midwinter.

Originally Posted by ooogemaflop (Post 35186561)

Anyone with anti english feeling over this will have anti english feeling anyway and of course it will be racism when they do

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35186582)

I have no anti-English feeling but yes this increase it in those who do. I don't equate patriotic English attitudes to being racist but elitist-English attitudes can be and regarding St George's Day as being a 'National Holiday' certainly stinks of that. By all means be proud of and celebrate your nation's patron saint but be aware of the other UK nations who do not celebrate the day.

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35186589)

What's wrong with Trafalgar day?

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35186590)

Ahem ... post 9. ;)[COLOR=Silver]

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35186526)

and lets not forget st skywalkers day for the jedi .

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35186563)

Personally I think the more significant development here is the fact that they have dropped the 'double summer time' proposals from the policy paper.

I really didn't fancy the thought of it not being full daylight until almost 10am here in midwinter.

Originally Posted by chris9991 (Post 35186651)

I think if the Bank Holiday is moved to October then it should fall in the half term week so that children don't miss out on vital teaching time

Originally Posted by Russ (Post 35186582)

I have no anti-English feeling but yes this increase it in those who do. I don't equate patriotic English attitudes to being racist but elitist-English attitudes can be and regarding St George's Day as being a 'National Holiday' certainly stinks of that. By all means be proud of and celebrate your nation's patron saint but be aware of the other UK nations who do not celebrate the day.

Originally Posted by ooogemaflop (Post 35186730)

I am English but George is not a saint of mine. 1 I am not Catholic and 2 I do not believe in Dragons ;)

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35186725)

"skive" - such an emotive term....:D

Some of us have booked the three days between the two long weekends off as annual leave, so are off work for eleven days.;)

Originally Posted by Rob (Post 35186677)

I suspect that May Day is seen by many in the tourism industries as the real start of the season. Easter is just too early for temperatures to be reliable to get people thinking of outdoors. So removing that holiday, and making it later in the year is just shifting the season back and forth a bit. No real gain.

But from a bank holiday perspective why have Easter, may Day and the end of May holidays in such short succession. A date later in the year would spread things out.

Oh and to the unions, business leaders and such like who all say moving the holiday would be disruptive, I doubt it would be a sudden occurence and there would be a couple of years notice, whcih would give far more planning time than the holiday suddenly announced for the Royal Wedding, that is undoubtedly distruptive when so many will now be trying to skive that whole week.

Originally Posted by The Daily Mash

ENGLAND faces the tantalising choice of a national holiday that celebrates either the slaying of a fictional animal by a made-up saint or the violent deaths of a great many French people.

Ministers believe the May Day bank holiday has become bloated and inefficient while also failing to give people 24 hours off work in a sufficiently English manner.

They now want a national debate on whether England should have a holiday on April 23, in commemoration of a legendary Syrian for whom there is not a shred of historical evidence, or October 21, marking the day when undereducated men from across Europe died to satisfy the armchair whims of a handful of egomaniacal sociopaths.

The government said Trafalgar Day could also be a 'British celebration' based on the assumption that Scottish, Northern Irish and Welsh people enjoy the death of a Frenchman as much as anyone.

(snip)

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35186725)

"skive" - such an emotive term....:D

Some of us have booked the three days between the two long weekends off as annual leave, so are off work for eleven days.;)

Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35186951)

yes and one of us was called a conniving old git when he booked it but what can i say the leave rota was empty some one had to do it :)

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35187860)

There was some sour grapes in our office but that was because they had not seen it and booked it themselves :LOL:

Originally Posted by handyman (Post 35189491)

Not having a calender to hand what are those dates? I could use some time off and don't have much holiday entitlement left :-)

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35189508)

Good Friday 22 April, Easter Monday 25 April, Royal wedding 29 April plus May Bank Holiday Monday 2 May gives you a clear 11 days out of the office at the cost of 3 days' leave (Tues-Thurs, 26-28 April).

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35189514)

We will be watching it here, not least because we have two daughters who are into Disney princesses in a big, big way, and this is a rare chance to see a girl becoming a princess in real life. :D It also happens to be our youngest's birthday, so a great excuse for an extra-big party.