PSA: Early May 2020...
 

[Closed] PSA: Early May 2020 Bank Holiday date changed to 75th VE Day anniversary

12 Posts
12 Users
0 Reactions
52 Views
Posts: 8945
Free Member
Topic starter
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48565417

Very quietly replacing Monday 11th with Friday 8th 2020, given we have one of the fewest number of bank hols in the world, it ought to have been an additional bank hol IMO.

 
Posted : 09/06/2019 10:43 am
Posts: 14327
Free Member
 

It doesn't matter. We'll be living in a post-Brexit dystopia by then. Nobody will be working anyway.

 
Posted : 09/06/2019 11:13 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Surely it’s replacing Monday 4th not Monday 11th?

 
Posted : 09/06/2019 11:16 am
 Drac
Posts: 50284
 

What's a bank holiday?

 
Posted : 09/06/2019 11:17 am
Posts: 8945
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Sorry. meant replacing Monday May 4th, as per BBC article!

 
Posted : 09/06/2019 11:36 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

It should be an extra day. It was a major event in history. If we are given a bonus day off because a royal gets married we should be commemorating VE Day properly.

 
Posted : 09/06/2019 12:35 pm
Posts: 12178
Free Member
 

Bankholidays ate nonsense.

Just give me more annual leave.

 
Posted : 09/06/2019 3:06 pm
Posts: 8
Free Member
 

I agree, should be an extra day. I am fortunate to work a 37hr week so finish at 12 on a Friday so this means I am effectively losing half a bank holiday!!

 
Posted : 10/06/2019 1:44 pm
 IHN
Posts: 19468
Full Member
 

we should be commemorating VE Day properly.

By sitting outside the pub all day, or having a BBQ? I doubt that a Bank Holiday for VE Day, extra or otherwise, will be used for much sombre and sober reflection on the millions of lives lost.

At some point we have to stop banging on about the war.

 
Posted : 10/06/2019 3:13 pm
Posts: 23013
Full Member
 

Bugger. That screws up my Friday-Monday weekend away. I'll have to book a day off.

 
Posted : 10/06/2019 3:15 pm
Posts: 27
Free Member
 

At some point we have to stop banging on about the war.

WW3 would make a nice change.

 
Posted : 10/06/2019 3:16 pm
Posts: 5617
Full Member
 

Booked a trip to France on Saturday afternoon with no knowledge of the potential change, someone mentioned it, but checked the gov bank holidays page and it showed the Monday, so thought it was all fine. Then saw the story in the press the next day FFS, things like bank holidays shouldn't just move days in the week.

 
Posted : 10/06/2019 3:16 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Bankholidays ate nonsense.

Just give me more annual leave.

Oh I don't know - they have a good vibe about them.

Maybe not so much these days, not so many people are lucky enough to have them off I suppose.

 
Posted : 10/06/2019 3:20 pm