Moving the May Bank Holiday

Russ · 04-03-2011, 05:39

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

papa smurf · 04-03-2011, 07:58

and lets not forget st skywalkers day for the jedi .

TheDaddy · 04-03-2011, 08:04

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Originally Posted by Russ

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

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

What an awsome post Russ...

Paul K · 04-03-2011, 08:06

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

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Plans to scrap the May Day bank holiday in favour of either a St George's Day in April or Trafalgar Day in October have been outlined by the government.

Russ · 04-03-2011, 08:09

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

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

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

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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

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.

TheDaddy · 04-03-2011, 08:14

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Originally Posted by Russ

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.

They do get days of for them, we don't, which in the case of St Paddy is a pity, in case of the other two, meh.

Russ · 04-03-2011, 08:17

You're missing the point - if this proposal was for an England-only bank holiday for St George's Day then that would be one thing, and I'd support it.

papa smurf · 04-03-2011, 08:22

â€œYou can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you canâ€™t please all of the people all of the timeâ€.

**Chris** · 04-03-2011, 09:48

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Originally Posted by Russ

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

Seriously Russ - you have to read past the first paragraph.

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The government's policy paper includes proposals to move the May Day holiday to St George's Day on 23 April in England and St David's Day on 1 March in Wales - to create a "national day".

The English bias here is with the BBC hack that wrote the article, not the guvmint.

Incidentally, the SNP has been trying to get St Andrew's Day instituted as a bank holiday in Scotland, but without much success.

04-03-2011, 09:53

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Originally Posted by Russ

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

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

**Chris** · 04-03-2011, 09:56

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.

04-03-2011, 10:00

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Originally Posted by Chris

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.

Yeah that was silly

chris9991 · 04-03-2011, 10:04

Is it not better for business to have the May Day holiday left as it is. I think most of Europe have the day off so if we want to contact our trading partners there, they won't be there.

I wouldn't like to move it to St. Georges Day as it will be even closer to Easter.

Surely, what we need is a Britain Day rather than a day each for the components of this nation and not in October at the height of Autumn when it will be too cold/dark to want to travel far.

**Chris** · 04-03-2011, 10:15

Yes, the St Andrew's Day proposals foundered for a similar reason (it's in November, and nobody wants a bank holiday then).

A British holiday would be a good idea but with nationalists in power in Scotland it's not going to happen across the whole of Britain, sadly.

Russ · 04-03-2011, 10:35

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Originally Posted by ooogemaflop

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

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.