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Leave May Day alone!
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Don't care - what's on telly this weekend?Bank Holidays are for wimps! At least now that I've retired that is.
May Day should be a working day, and celebrated by a special annual budget aimed at screwing the workers a bit more. This year, for example, Osbourne should use the occasion to :
1. Ban Bonus for all bank staff and management.
2. Freeze all Public Sector pensions and replace by a 1½% money purchase contribution only.
3. Reduce Minimum Wage to £2 and hour.
4. Raise retirement age by another 4 years, up to 70 years like they used to be in May Days of old.
5. Remove all Child Benefit and introduce a £500 a year tax on children.
6. Ban membership of all Trade Unions.
7. Er......
8. That's it until next year.
All savings to be used to abolish Income Tax for over 60's.
Larrge Gin & Tonics all round. Just going to get mine now.0 -
Yes - it has historical significanceAnother vote for 11th Nov here.
No offence Gen, what has it got to to do with you
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
No - whatever the Condems say is fine by meI like the sound of having a Bank Holiday for Trafalgar Day,
Agree. Anything that pi$$es off the French is fine by me. BTW Whitsun hasn't been a Bank Holiday since 1967.I used to think that good grammar is important, but now I know that good wine is importanter.0 -
Yes - it has historical significanceI didn't know that prior to 1834 there were 33 saints days and religious holidays :beer: now we are multicultural I reckon we could get it up to about 100 But then in 1834 they were reduced to just 4
one of which was May 1st, who said there was no historical significance in May day? If we ditch that one we will have to put out a distress call. 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Yes - it has historical significanceWe don't get bank holidays. We have seven fixed public holidays where I am (New Years Day, 2nd January, the first Monday in April, May Day, St Andrews Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day - the rest are floating days). Let me tell you a holiday on 30th November is damned miserable. You MAY be able to get to the shops and get some Christmas shopping done (if it isn't snowing) but they will be mobbed with others with the same idea.0
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Don't care - what's on telly this weekend?I care so little about this subject that I don't think I have the energy to complete this senten . . .0
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No - whatever the Condems say is fine by meMayday is both a traditional English celebration throughout the centuries, Maypole, Mayqueen etc, it also a Celtic festival of Beltane (I had to look that up BTW). Why do you say it has no historical sigificance?
Because it was introduced for political not historical reasons?In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:0 -
Yes - it has historical significanceBecause it was introduced for political not historical reasons?
In 1834 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Yes - it has historical significanceBecause it was introduced for political not historical reasons?
It was originally ignored (in the 1871 act) because it didn't fit in with cricket fixture list although the Scots were given the Mayday holiday in the same act. I assume you don't think that swapping a lovely spring holiday for a wet dark November holiday is not for political reasons. Who is putting it forward the tourism minister? 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
It was originally ignored (in the 1871 act) because it didn't fit in with cricket fixture list
It's at times like this that I imagine Jimmy Wales is most proud of his creation
'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0
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