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Leave May Day alone!
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Yes - it has historical significanceIt's at times like this that I imagine Jimmy Wales is most proud of his creation
And we all know what he looks like now, I think he may regret that
'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 -
Loughton_Monkey wrote: »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.
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I personally think we should have a load more bank holidays. A few more during the cold, grey, damp & miserable months just to give us something to look forward to.
I once had one of those international diaries with national holidays listed for different countries around the world. We really do suck at bank holidays. India looked like a pretty good country in terms of bank holidays (not in terms of poverty) everyday seemed like they had some kind of bank holiday. Well this was many years ago when I had time to look at stuff like that & had time to be bored. I dont even have time to go to loo at work now.
Anyway enough of my rant.0 -
Yes - it has historical significanceI hope they leave May day alone, as a pagan it's the one BH I can celebrate, neither easter or christmas have any real meaning to me and I use to volunteer to work those days so others could have them off. I do like the sound of another bank hoilday in either Oct. or Feb though, if we had to move another holiday I'd sooner it was the one at the end of May.[FONT="]“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]0
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Yes - it has historical significancewe get two bank hols in may plus easter and whitsun and also august then nothing till christmas .... more bh pleasedavetrousers wrote: »Whitsun is one of the May Bank Holidays.
That said, I would like a a BH in October time (I like the idea of a Trafalgar Day), ideally I'd like it to be an extra BH, but the reality may be one of the May ones has to go.
As Whit Sunday (Pentecost) is always seven Sundays (as close as forty days you can get, a favourite biblical time frame), after Easter, it is often in June.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Yes - it has historical significanceWat about a Veterans day in November? The Monday after Remembrance day.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
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Yes - it has historical significanceI hope they leave May day alone, as a pagan it's the one BH I can celebrate, neither easter or christmas have any real meaning to me and I use to volunteer to work those days so others could have them off. I do like the sound of another bank hoilday in either Oct. or Feb though, if we had to move another holiday I'd sooner it was the one at the end of May.
But these are pagan holidays.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
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