View Full Version : Does Britain need a new bank holiday?
BanannaMan
15-09-10, 04:32 AM
Interesting poll stolen shamelessly off the net.
The August Bank Holiday has come and gone.
In England and Wales between now and Christmas there are no long holiday weekends to look forward to - more than three and a half months of uninterrupted responsibility without a break in site.
Even some of Scotland gets a break for St. Andrews Day in November. While over on the Continent, the French are debating reducing their annual allotment of public holidays from twelve to ten, and in Northern Ireland they get ten - St. Patricks Day and Battle of the Boyne Day both counting as public holidays - the English and Welsh have only 8. Should there be more?
metalangel
15-09-10, 05:47 AM
Bring back Harvest Festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_festival#The_Harvest_Festival_in_Britain), though the modern (ignorant and xenophobic) British person would likely see it as the Americans trying to bring their overly commercial and made-up Thanksgiving (like I say,ignorant) to the UK to try and corrupt traditional British values like not having any more holidays between August and Christmas.
maviczap
15-09-10, 07:01 AM
Yep, its a long drag through the dark winter months to crimbo
British wintertime day would be good. So that your body has an extra day to get used to the time change. But hang on, aren't they trying to stop BWT
keith_d
15-09-10, 07:27 AM
I'll go for November 1st, to be known as "Hangover Day", so we can celebrate Halloween properly.
timwilky
15-09-10, 07:39 AM
I must be in a different country, I get 3 if I am in the UK
Christmas, boxing day and new years day. Every other day is a normal working day and I need to book them off if I want them. Strange that now I have an office on a factory site that security got upset when I turned up the other Monday and said things like "It is a bank holiday, you need to get permission to be on site".
metalangel
15-09-10, 07:55 AM
You must get lieu days for the bank holidays you have to work, tim. I always have in the jobs where I've had to.
I must be in a different country, I get 3 if I am in the UK
Christmas, boxing day and new years day. Every other day is a normal working day and I need to book them off if I want them. Strange that now I have an office on a factory site that security got upset when I turned up the other Monday and said things like "It is a bank holiday, you need to get permission to be on site".
Well to be pedantic, Christmas day is a Public Holiday and not a bank holiday and therefore even if you get bank holidays off, they can if so required get you to work on christmas day. My mums in retail and Christmas day has to be taken as a days leave. She works alternate Bank Holidays as theya re just classed as normal days in retail. Some companies still play double time, but thats old school. Same for Sundays now.
gruntygiggles
15-09-10, 08:10 AM
I'd say yes, but most definitely NOT in December, perhaps around the middle of November so I can always have a nice long birthday weekend, but I work from home anyway, so really, shouldn't have a say in this...lol.
For Dan though and others, a bank holiday in December would mean shoppers not going out as and when they could before Christmas, but ALL going to the shops on that long weekend....it would be CRAZY!
I'll go for November 1st, to be known as "Hangover Day", so we can celebrate Halloween properly.
Oh yes please!
My b'day is the 30th, and it usually takes a few days to recover.
Not fussed about an extra day but wouldn't mind moving one from early in the year, e.g. May Day. Why have two days within 30 days when there's nowt specific to celebrate?
Like Tim W, holidays get in the way of work.
punyXpress
15-09-10, 11:42 AM
YES !
And it has to be 21st October - Trafalgar Day.
We all know who'll jib at that, but WE won that battle.
timwilky
15-09-10, 11:56 AM
YES !
And it has to be 21st October - Trafalgar Day.
We all know who'll jib at that, but WE won that battle.
can we also have Waterloo day, and Nile day, and Agincourt day?
Plus the days we will share with our colonial cousins universally known as kicked your arse again days.
urbane1
15-09-10, 02:43 PM
We have Thanksgiving in October, and Rememberance Day in November. But as most Canadians only get 2 weeks vacation a year (being self employed I only got 2 days this year!) we need all the Bank Holiday's we can get. We actually get 11, so we are not doing so bad.
BigBaddad
15-09-10, 06:28 PM
1st day of October half term. Not for teachers though, they already get too much time off and they don't do their job properly and blame poor results on special education needs. Lazy ferkers. Must be true, I read it in The Sun.
punyXpress
21-10-13, 10:59 AM
1st day of October half term. Not for teachers though, they already get too much time off and they don't do their job properly and blame poor results on special education needs. Lazy ferkers. Must be true, I read it in The Sun.
You realise teachers work 24/7
24 hours per week
7 months per year
( and still waiting for Trafalgar Day Bank Holiday )
garynortheast
21-10-13, 01:59 PM
1st day of October half term. Not for teachers though, they already get too much time off and they don't do their job properly and blame poor results on special education needs. Lazy ferkers. Must be true, I read it in The Sun.
Not the Sun but close enough!
http://youtu.be/5eBT6OSr1TI
BanannaMan
21-10-13, 02:34 PM
You realise teachers work 24/7
24 hours per week
7 months per year
( and still waiting for Trafalgar Day Bank Holiday )
Hope Messie doesn't see that!
Messie doesn't argue with the bigoted and/or ill informed any more.
Life is sweet xx ;)
Amadeus
21-10-13, 04:43 PM
YES !
And it has to be 21st October - Trafalgar Day.
We all know who'll jib at that, but WE won that battle.
When the Channel Tunnel agreement was signed, Mitterand (I think) came to parliament to the public announcement. He had a paddy because there were a couple of large tapestries on the opposite walls beside/behind him - Waterloo on one site, Trafalgar on the other. I think it actually got moved eventually. One does have to question whether it was intentional but apparently similar announcements had been made in that room before.
I voted no because doing shift work I don't get bank holidays off anyway but also because the world and his wife are clogging up the roads so you can't do anything anyway.
I voted no because doing shift work I don't get bank holidays off .
It's all ME ME ME with you ;)
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