Chip

Unions are pushing for an extra bank hol to bring us more into line with the rest of Europe. When do you reckon this day should be. Autumn I think as it always seems such a long time from August hol to Xmas.

Chip.

milo

id rather it be in the summer (well that gives us about 3 possible days then )... probably early july. at least then the school kids wont benefit from it if they're on holiday anyway

personally tho id rather have it (and a few others instead of the current bank holidays) as a "take it when you like" day. let's face it, you can't go anywhere or do anything on a bank holiday unless you want to push thru crowds of folks...

imlach

Bank Holidays are a very English thing....not many get them up here in Scotland. Rather have them on annual allocation than an enforced & useless Monday holiday. Our company gives us 5 days extra holiday instead of having all the useless bank holidays (aside from Christmas and New Year). I'd much rather have a contiguous 5 days than separate Monday holidays.

Anyway, they are bank holidays. Surely, by nature of the name, for those that work in banks, which is not very many of us

hedgehog

I agree that it is better to have the days when it suits you. As a general rule, because of the shifts I usually work, I rarely get bank holidays and when I do it's only by luck rather than design. However, I'd prefer it like that as then I can take the days when it suits me. Means about an extra 2 weeks of leave per year in the end as usually I don't get Xmas, New Year or any of that stuff.

To be honest I think the idea of having random days when the whole country stops is dated and downright stupid but many people like to get their bank holidays so whatever keeps them happy. The thing that annoys me most, as someone for whom it is a normal day, is the belief that because it is a bank holiday there is no need for transport etc. to keep running as normal. Try getting to work using public transport when there are only 2 buses in the whole day.

topdog

March 1st chip

Dewi

Chip

Oh no, don't start em off again

Chip.

imlach

...and what relevance is Trafalgar Day to the UK?

GM

Union of the Crowns 1603
Act of Union 1707
Battle of Trafalgar 1805

Pretty relevant I guess...

imlach

The point being, the Auld Alliance is alive and well. I don't think we Scots would enjoy celebrating what was effectively an English victory over France

WRX Wannabe

Tomorrow please

||VaNDaL||

Yes we could trample daffodils, set fire to holiday homes and lob stale lavabread at eachother to celebrate.....


or even just lose the ability to read and write in english.




I can say these things cos I know chip wants my babies

Faire D'Income

Why not? If we can sign the Entente Cordiale with the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys, and live with it, why can't you lot celebrate Trafalgar Day?

In fact, we should extend our allocation of Bank Holidays to equal that of the aforesaid Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys.

Then we could have...

Agincourt Day, Crecy Day, Poitiers Day, Toulouse Day, Waterloo Day and so on and so forth. In fact, if we included them all we'd probably not have to bother turning up for work until June at the earliest if we had them back to back.

Leslie

Why conform with European dictats anyway, lets have two more holidays!

Les

ScoobyDriverWannabe

should just give us a day off for St Georges day

imlach

....yes, that'd work well in Scotland, Wales, and N.Ireland too

lightning101

A day off for a mythical person who slayed a mythical beast.


Next you'll want christmas off.

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

we had a 4 day weekend last week a 3 day weekend this week and another 4 day weekend next week not bad eh :-) 18 bank holidays a year plus bridge days unfortunately not all of them fall on wekdays but so far we have been lucky this year

Chip

Chip.