It’s been 48 years since the last bank holiday was added, it’s overdue. When should we set a new one and what would it be called?
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I’m not too picky on the details I will just get behind the best suggestion(s)
way overdue!
60percentsexpanther@reddit
The nearest Friday or Monday to June 13 should be called "science day" in honour of James Clark Maxwell. For Scotland and England. NI and Wales if they want it
CymroBachUSA@reddit
Independence day ... whenever the union breaks up.
Any_Crazy_500@reddit
I would propose moving one of the bank holidays in May to later in the year.
Hospitality is bad enough as it is on bank holidays without adding another.
Broken_Sky@reddit
While I would be all for it as I get holiday to spend + back holidays. But my brothers shitty company gives them 26 days but bank holiday and Christmas, when the office is fully closed so mandatory, has to come out of their allowance.
Efficient-Lab@reddit
We need more monarchs to pop their clogs. Bank holiday for the funeral, for the coronation…
ABCDOMG@reddit
A cheeky bit of regicide, and the removal of the monarchy, followed by a bank holiday every year to celebrate progressing the country into a republic would give us more of them in the long run.
Nikotelec@reddit
We need something between August and Christmas.
Solution: Bonfire night
turbo_dude@reddit
11th November
The French have it as a holiday already
Harald_TheEnduring@reddit
I’m not going to upvote this because it’s on 11 and I don’t want to ruin that but I agree so.. ⬆️
racloves@reddit
I’ll downvote it so you can give it an upvote
atticdoor@reddit
Wouldn't it be better to be about something positive? Glorifying a terrorist attempt and/or the the subsequent bloody retribution when they were caught doesn't strike me as the best way.
Serious-Use4585@reddit
In the town I grew up in, there used to be an unofficial one on the closest Friday to Nov 5th. Pubs stayed open all night on Thursday evening for the guy fawkes carnival and schools / businesses were closed on the Friday as everyone was hungover.
Amazing-Heron-105@reddit
Why though? Surely there's some history to that.
Serious-Use4585@reddit
It was a fiercely Protestant part of the country at the time of the gunpowder plot so they celebrated its failure on a much grander scale than elsewhere.
Amazing-Heron-105@reddit
That's cool. So businesses would just take the hit?
H_Lock26@reddit
Lewes mentioned
Serious-Use4585@reddit
No
rachpid@reddit
Bridgwater definitely!
Shadow_Guide@reddit
Lewes?
Serious-Use4585@reddit
No
ThunderChild247@reddit
I’d counter that with Halloween. Give us the whole day to work on the costumes.
OkSun8521@reddit
Yeah, but I'm not a child.
iceblnklck@reddit
Fun and frivolity doesn’t end the minute you hit 18 pal.
Les-tah-farian@reddit
Or a yank
smellthecoffeebeans@reddit
Fun isn't reserved for Americans
DukePPUk@reddit
Bonfire night was an official day of thanksgiving, with a mandatory Church of England service, from 1605 until 1859 (because puritans).
It was abolished partly because puritans weren't really a thing any more and no one cared about mandatory church services, and partly because it had largely turned into a "let's beat up Catholics and/or the rich" day.
terryjuicelawson@reddit
The meaning behind it is messy though, even if the timing is right. One that sits around that time that people can use as the day they have a party for Halloween / Guy Fawkes and set off fireworks makes sense though. Call it some kind of coming of Winter festival or something. Only thing then is at that time of year people tend to celebrate inside in the evening anyway.
timingfountain@reddit
We have the 11th July for that tho
threewholefish@reddit
Only some people, and I really don't want the Twelfth bonfires to reach GB. Not least because the south of England would be burned to the ground.
Greeninexile@reddit
September would be alright but who really wants day off when the weather is shite in November. Extra random day off in the Summer would be nicer!
iamabigtree@reddit
Exactly wtf am I going to do with 5th November? It's freezing
Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit
Wtf do you do with 25th December, 26th December, and 1st January?
iamabigtree@reddit
Be cold.
Lysadora@reddit
Who cares, just do something fun indoors then. What matters is that it's a day off work between end of August and Christmas
BuffaloAl@reddit
Have a bonfire and let off fireworks?
YetAnotherInterneter@reddit
We’ve already got loads of bank holidays in the summer. We need more winter bank holidays!
A day off is a day off, you can still enjoy it no matter the weather.
Kaioken64@reddit
There is one bank holiday in summer. Wtf do you mean we already have loads?
Pixiebel81@reddit
NI gets another two in July
FergingtonVonAwesome@reddit
We had a 30 degree Bank holiday yesterday. Maybe not 'summer' technically but right now they're very bunched up. We have 5 spaced out a bit from March-August in spring/summer, then 3 pretty much on the same week in December.
YetAnotherInterneter@reddit
May gets two bloody bank holidays!
I know May is technically Spring not Summer. But the weather in May is more akin to Summer than Winter. Plus if Easter is late then that’s 4 bank holidays in the space of 5 weeks!
Plus a bank holiday in August.
Meanwhile there are no bank holidays between September to late-December.
AcesAgainstKings@reddit
Definitely feels like April and May are summer these days
Maya-K@reddit
Hey, some of us live for November weather!
continentaldreams@reddit
Me! My birthday is in late November and it sucks because no-one wants to do anything big close to Christmas. And it's cold and miserable. A day off would be nice.
cheesecake_413@reddit
I've just moved to the Netherlands, and we've just had our last bank holiday until Christmas day
Treasure the August bank holiday
Kwayzar9111@reddit
you mean september to Christmas - there is a bank holiday in August
MintberryCrunch____@reddit
Between August and Christmas means the months/days in between August ending and Christmas beginning.
Famous_Taste1216@reddit
Every Monday
Mongoose-Relevant@reddit
How about a bank holiday but everything is closed?
Bar emergency services obvs
LimitUnable@reddit
Not sure why we need another one. Would be nice if everyone got the bank holiday off tbh. Retail- Working, Hospitality- working..
Economy_Fan_8520@reddit
They get days off in lieu which can even be better as can group the days together
Fabulous_Function666@reddit
No they don’t. My partner works retail and he doesn’t get a day in lieu and neither do I as a support worker
Economy_Fan_8520@reddit
You do though as its part of the 28days a year you get off … so you’re getting to take an alternate day of year vs getting bank holidays
Fabulous_Function666@reddit
Only if you are lucky enough to have one full time job which a lot of people do not have anymore. I work 3 part time jobs and my partner works 2.
OkSun8521@reddit
You get the same amount of paid leave regardless of how many part time jobs you have.
Fabulous_Function666@reddit
No you get leave depending on the hours worked in each job
OkSun8521@reddit
And when you add it all together, you get the same amount.
itsamberleafable@reddit
Maybe because despite the fact that we're magnitudes more productive due to new tech and despite this getting paid less in relative terms than 30 years ago.
A single bank holiday doesn't come close to evening it out but it's a fucking start
JohnCasey3306@reddit
It should unironically be called 'Screw You Service Workers Day' -- another Bank holiday they're not allowed to take off.
Mongoose-Relevant@reddit
Yeah we have enough bank holidays already
uttertosser@reddit
5th July (1948) The National Health Service (NHS) officially launched in England
supergodmasterforce@reddit
Tomorrow.
"We All Need A Day Off to Recover From This Heat" Day
Serious-Comment5458@reddit
Hate to break it to you but tomorrow is also looking rather toasty!
burgermachine74@reddit
Compared to today's 34, 24 doesn't look half-bad at all!
topheavyhookjaws@reddit
Tomorrow is looking like 20 with sun. That's not heat, that's just lovely
Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit
High of 32 for me
Fabulous_Function666@reddit
Before doing that, how about allowing everyone to actually get bank holidays off. I genuinely hate them. My partner and I both have to work and everything is more busy which just makes it a nightmare for us (retail and support worker)
We both only get Christmas Day as a guaranteed day off and even that is probably going to be taken from us both soon.
Tao626@reddit
Alternatively, no bank holidays off.
I get bank holidays off and they're fucking shite. On top of my partner not getting them off (so I in essence get less holidays to use than her), everything is either packed, shuts early or is shut. What's the point? It's not like they're on top of my existing holidays, they're instead of, which is how it works most places.
I would rather have those 8 days to take off and use as I wish whenever rather than having a couple of total shit Monday and Fridays spoken for each year.
Fabulous_Function666@reddit
Yeah that works too.
Rocinante23@reddit
I'm not one to stick a flag up a lamppost, but we should have St George's/St Davids/St Andrews day off in each of the constituent countries as a Bank Hol
terryjuicelawson@reddit
April is a poor time for a bank holiday as we get plenty with Easter and May. No real tradition of people doing stuff on St George's Day either.
Rocinante23@reddit
I suppose my thinking would be that a Bank Holiday could allow people to celebrate, give councils and people the chance to eventise the day.
It would also allow us to claw back the patriotism argument from the far right.
GaryJM@reddit
St Andrew's Day was made a bank holiday in Scotland in 2007 but it's only a public holiday in Angus, Fife and the Borders.
Lapwing68@reddit
Why not the whole of Scotland?
GaryJM@reddit
It's up to local councils whether or not a day is a public holiday. When the Scottish government made St Andrew's Day a bank holiday, most councils didn't bother moving one of their public holidays to the new date.
Lapwing68@reddit
Thanks.
clutchnorris123@reddit
I didn't know it wasn't the whole of Scotland but being I guess being a fifer has one positive.
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
So you wanr a day off for St George but you don't want to celebrate St George?
Rocinante23@reddit
Incorrect, I have and will fly the St George on my own terms. The the background of the performative campaign of sticking cheap flags up lampposts hasn't sit right with me from day one.
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
You literally said you're not one to stick a St Georges flag up
terryjuicelawson@reddit
There is a difference between the proper flying of a flag and tying one to a public lamp post, you can see that surely.
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
No mistake, you're right.
I will offer a bet on them having a St Georges Flag on a flagpole at their house instead of a lamppost. I'll start at £50. Deal?
Rocinante23@reddit
Correct. I had expanded upon the point in a follow-up comment.
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
So we're expected to know what you really mean by follow ups we don't even get notifications about? What a bizarre way to have a discussion
EmmaInFrance@reddit
I'm in two minds about St. David's Day.
In some ways, I very much agree.
But.. it's also, traditionally, the one day of the year that all Welsh schools celebrate being Welsh, with primary school kids dressing up and with annual Eisteddfods being held in most schools.
Double_Jab_Jabroni@reddit
They’ll do it on a day before or after the holiday, as they do when it falls on a weekend?
EmmaInFrance@reddit
Maybe?
But it may end up with different schools, and towns that hold parades etc., doing it on different days?
I worry that it won't feel as 'special' as it does now, with everyone celebrating together, on the same day.
Double_Jab_Jabroni@reddit
I get your concern, but I think that is very unlikely to happen anytime soon given Plaid are in power, thankfully!
TheRadishBros@reddit
It’s such an obvious political win, I could see it happening someday.
littlegreenturtle20@reddit
I'm of the opinion that we should all get a bank holiday on each Saints' day (including St Patrick), so that would increase our bank hols by 4 days per year.
kavik2022@reddit
This. With a gov campagain advertising it. Public ad campagin lighthighting british achievements in culture etc. Copy and paste for davids and andrews. Celebrate different communities and what been british/welsh and scotish means to them. Do some workshops in schools etc.
OrganicPoet1823@reddit
I agree with this!
New_Line4049@reddit
Personally Id take another one during summer, ideally about halfway between the one at the end of May anc the August one, that feels like quite a long stretch without one.
SurreySon@reddit
How about July 4th? It can be called "Thanksgiving".
oportoman@reddit
Can we have more on a Friday please? Thanks 😎
onionsofwar@reddit
Maybe we could get our respective patron saints' days off. St George's day, as one example, is celebrated that way in other places where he's the patron saint.
It's also a chance to have an outlet for all the genuine national pride: flags, facepaint, dragons and, being world book day, why not celebrate shakespeare and other important English authors.
Shuts up all the grumbly bigots who say people aren't proud because it gives us a tasteful way to actually express it.
Kcufasu@reddit
Surprised everyone is saying October especially if after the clocks have gone back - I'd far rather have one earlier in summer say late June or July when the weather is more likely to be nice.
Having two in May and then nothing until the end of August (in England) feels too long through the best part of the year without one
Not_A_Toaster_0000@reddit
Make it the day the clocks go back. New day off, but we only get 23 hours
Coffee_Queen_69@reddit
Workers at home plssssss
Financial_Ad240@reddit
Instead of a fixed Bank Holiday date, I would look to add a holiday for everyone on their Birthday.
ShotInTheBrum@reddit
St Swithins Day
ComprehensiveHead913@reddit
The country is in a debt crisis, gilt yields are rising, productivity is in the gutter and you want us to have more public holidays?
Agitated-Builder-582@reddit
Some time in July AND October. We already have the fewest in Europe.
Why don’t we celebrate cutting America loose, as it’s mid way between the late Spring bank holiday (May) and the late Summer bank holiday (August)?
Halloween seems the obvious answer for an Autumnal bank holiday.
I’m also an advocate of the French approach of choosing a specific date. If it happens to fall on a Tuesday or Thursday, they “fait le pont”, ie a lot of businesses “bridge” to the nearest weekend and remain closed. If it falls on a Wednesday, they “fait le grand pont” and stay shut for the first half of the week, or “fait le viaduc” and just don’t open that week at all. I think this is more common in rural areas, it certainly was in the South West where I had a holiday home. The flip side is if it falls at the weekend, officially employees don’t get a day off, but many employers will give an extra day regardless.
EmmaInFrance@reddit
I live in France and I disagree!
May is complete chaos, every year. You never know where you are.
Also, some jours fériés fall on Saturday or Sunday, and you just 'lose' that day off - there isn't one on the closest Monday to replace it, as there is in the UK.
highrouleur@reddit
Is it France that does joining days, so if the holiday is Tuesday, you get Monday off as well? That's quite a nice trade off
PsychologicalDish430@reddit
St Davids day, though the UK government doesn't give a fuck about Wales.
OkSun8521@reddit
Wales is under 5% of the UK population. How much attention do you think it should get?
PsychologicalDish430@reddit
Exactly!
Neat-Suggestion8286@reddit
I genuinely think it’ll be whenever we win the World Cup. Football plays a massive role in this country whether you like it or not. Every time we reach a final it seems like the whole country stops for those 90 or so minutes.
littlenymphy@reddit
Scotland have got a public holiday next month just for getting to the World Cup - might need a whole week off in the unlikely event they get to the final.
However, it was down to individual workplaces whether or not employees get the day off and my workplace told us no.
OkSun8521@reddit
In what way is it a public holiday if people don't get the day off?
tola9922@reddit
Every payday Friday. Once a month to help stimulate the economy and just give everyone a break. We all work too much for this short existence we have.
Argythebilly@reddit
They are a pain since I always forget it will be a bank holiday!!
Toffeemade@reddit
21 October or closest to - Trafalgar Day
G4HDU@reddit
November 5th
ev_journey@reddit
its too damn hot day, a none specific holiday that occurs once a year after two nights where an overnight temperature of 20C is recorded somewhere in the country...
missmars12@reddit
Saints days? Saint George, St David,, st Andrew, St Patrick? Solstice days too. That would be amazing.
BellamyRFC54@reddit
I propose one in july and september
llynllydaw_999@reddit
Last Monday in October. People can tie it in to Halloween, Bonfire night etc. as they wish, but better to have it on a fixed day.
djwillis1121@reddit
We need one in October or November. The gap between August and Christmas with no bank holidays is too long. Maybe something around remembrance day would make sense, although that seems to be becoming a bit divisive lately
shartingmaster@reddit
Halloween! Halloween not being a bank holiday is nuts
terryjuicelawson@reddit
Not really as people tend to do stuff in the evening, it is also only a rather modern thing where people go OTT on the dressing up and party side of things. The day after in many ways makes more sense, then people can recover from the party - rather like we have new year's day, not the eve.
brightdionysianeyes@reddit
All Saints Day (1st November) was the holiday previously. Makes more sense than Halloween IMO as much like New Years it's all about the day before.
TheSecretIsMarmite@reddit
It's still a public holiday in France iirc.
anotherblog@reddit
French have one for all saints, we could do the same
ResplendentBear@reddit
The fact we have 1 in summer is a bigger problem.
55erg@reddit
Trafalgar Day, 21st of October.
Although celebrating a war victory may not be a good idea. In which case, let’s have 11th of November celebrating Armistice Day
Kwayzar9111@reddit
you mean september to Christmas - there is a bank holiday in August
djwillis1121@reddit
I meant the gap between the August bank holiday and Christmas
dbxp@reddit
I think a holiday being divisive can actually stress the need for one. National holidays can be used to push national values.
Guy Fawkes would be contender for that period.
YarnPenguin@reddit
Halloween/Samhain.
It would be nice to have one in October/November to balance out the Easter/May, August and Christmas smatterings.
Plus, I am constantly being informed, at volume, that we are "losing our culture" and so doing something nice and olden times Gaelic will surely make them very happy and reinvigorate "our culture".
ShineAtom@reddit
The only problem with that is that it is a moveable day and in the UK we don't seem able to have moveable public holidays unless they are Christmas and New Year. It always has to be the Monday closest to the day in question. It;s very annoying. Other countries manage it (see France). The downside is that if the public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday there isn't a day off in lieu as we do for Christmas and New Year.
And yes, I know Easter is moveable but it is still always a weekend. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox.
kumran@reddit
We do for both St Patrick's and 12th July in NI, and for St Andrews day in Scotland.
Engels33@reddit
As much as i think Sam Hain is a fine county cricketer for Warwickshire who deserved far more opportunities for England im not sure hes all that well known - perhaps Joe Root day could be added instead 😉
sausagemouse@reddit
Nah fuck it. Let's force another on into May
EmmaInFrance@reddit
It's Toussaint, or All Saints' Day, on November 1st that's the bank holiday here.
The school holidays are planned around it, so kids are already off school.
Traditionally, it's when everyone remembers their dead relatives and buys chrysanthemums to put on their graves.
Space_Hunzo@reddit
Ireland recently added a February bank Holiday for St Brigids day/Imbolc so its a good trend to hop on!
zoltan_g@reddit
Yep, definitely make Halloween/Samhain a holiday!
DefiantEfficiency901@reddit
Te bank holiday bank holiday. . Celebrating all the bank holidays
zorki20@reddit
We need one for summer solstice.
A_Person_Who_Exist5@reddit
St George’s day should be one for England in particular.
Jemima_puddledook678@reddit
There’s no need for that one. Nobody celebrates it, nobody’s bothered. It would just feel artificial to try to have a day off for the sake of a ‘partriotic’ day.
A_Person_Who_Exist5@reddit
Who cares? You get a day off, even if you don’t celebrate. And there are some areas where they do celebrate it. Not necessarily large organised celebrations sure, but there are places that do.
darybrain@reddit
Well, first we needed to add the new month of Augcember into the calendar but that idea failed as not enough thought had gone behind it
https://youtu.be/Sjrtk4GS6TU
Fendrinus@reddit
We have a generic Spring Bank Holiday and Summer Bank Holiday, I think a generic Autumn Bank Holiday on the last Monday of October.
Or what about 2 bank holidays, each Monday after the clocks change we get a bank holiday (last Sunday in March and October). The March one might overlap with Easter some years but we can just double up like we do at Christmas.
MentalPlectrum@reddit
Last Monday in Oct is 86% of the time after the last Sunday, i.e. after the clock change to winter time. Miserable.
Fredpillow1995@reddit
I think an AI day. We now have AI which can do a lot of peoples work for them and makes us all more productive. To celebrate, let's leave AI in charge of everything for a day and all have a day off! I'm thinking August the first, A1, as in AI.
Waste-Accident-8385@reddit
Ai fridays every week forever, 4 day week has to become the new norm
Thin_Formal_3727@reddit
Lol, it will become a 3 day, then 2 day, then unemployment in a matter of months.
No-Department-4561@reddit
Freed of our labours, returned to nature and all watched over by machines of loving grace
Icy_Bad3557@reddit
I've not read that poem in years and couldn't remember who wrote it. Went to google and the first real website result is an AI analysis of the poem...
Far-Presentation6307@reddit
Fully automated luxury space communism.
EmmaInFrance@reddit
I love that poem! I used to have a copy of it on the wall behind my computer desk, many years ago.
I also liked the band, back in the day.
Thin_Formal_3727@reddit
I like your positive outlook. Would be a beautiful thing
Darkgreenbirdofprey@reddit
Funnily enough, a labour victory in 2019 would've added 4 bank holidays. One for each of the St days for each country in the uk.
DeadBallDescendant@reddit
While the August - Christmas gap is the most obviously in need of filling, I'd prefer another one in the Summer. It's now over three months until the August doss and I'd rather have another one in the middle of that gap.
EatingCoooolo@reddit
Should’ve been Lizzie’s day of passing.
Rasples1998@reddit
Halloween
MurfE101@reddit
It should be called Friday and it should happen every week
Expensive-Garlic-172@reddit
When David Attenborough dies. Hero.
Pick up litter or give a shit about the world day
Rocinante23@reddit
I've said this before. Everyone should try and pick up one piece of litter on Earth Day - with 55m adults in the UK it would make a difference. Small changes can add up!
Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit
Earth Day would be cool. But we really don't need another Spring Bank holiday
YarnPenguin@reddit
Pick up 10 pieces of litter, eat a plant based tea, plant a tree/shub, repair a piece of clothing or homeware and switch the lights off for an hour to look at the sky.
Happy Future Death Day David Attenborough.
Expensive-Garlic-172@reddit
Is tea not plant based?
YarnPenguin@reddit
Depends what you eat
GammaDeltaTheta@reddit
No need to wait. Make it Attenborough's birthday, 8th May or the following Monday, so that we have 3 bank holidays in May. Then we might as well turn it into Bank Holiday Month.
heatonpiranha@reddit
I’m not anti-French but a Trafalgar Day (5th October) seems like well placed timing for a bank holiday.
ExultentPisces@reddit
August. Just all of August, like the Italians do.
AbbreviationsOk6561@reddit
Someone needs to do a graph of inflation vs bank holidays. The bank holiday inflation has not kept up with cost of living.
Far-Presentation6307@reddit
We have May Day at the start of May.
I propose the new bank holiday be called "Gay Day" in recognition of the progressive changes that society has undergone in the past 48 years.
Pride day / month seems to vary from place to place, but some time in June or July would be good.
Dull-Amphibian-5779@reddit
The Monday after October half term because I love hosting a lit Halloween party
Dyalikedagz@reddit
One bank holiday every month would be great. Spread the ones out that exist already, especially Easter and May, then add a few more days in.
WayneCl@reddit
No thanks! Bank holidays are just an excuse for my wife to force me to go out on a long walk if the weather is good, or get on with her list of household jobs if the weather is bad. I'd rather have a normal working day, thanks.
TrappedUnderIceSpice@reddit
Don’t know but I’d love one a couple in June, every Monday in July and August would be good. Maybe throw in a few Friday’s too.
RedBelzee2025@reddit
The UK 7 or 8 days a year bank holiday allotment is ridiculous. Definitely between August and December. And it should be a Mental Health day.
Agermeister@reddit
Saint David's Day, seeing as Scotland and Northern Ireland get ones for their patron saints. Hell, might as well do one for St George's as well.
BlazkoTwix@reddit
We don't get the day off for St Andrews day in Scotland. Schools are usually in, I've never worked anywhere that has recognised it and banks are open.
Agermeister@reddit
Fair enough, apologies, complete misconception. But this should be one as well then.
GaryJM@reddit
My brother works at schools in Dundee and Angus and Angus ones are closed on St Andrew's Day but Dundee ones aren't, so he gets a half day off.
SpaffedTheLot@reddit
Attenborough remembrance day... you know when it happens.
bananabastard@reddit
I say we call it, "Bank Holiday Monday".
Clear-Lifeguard-3762@reddit
in canada they have family day 3 sunday in feb, its the best day ever, winter and then you can sleep for a day …. i miss that day
Rubostars@reddit
6th Jan. Three King's Day
OrganicPoet1823@reddit
Too close to new year
Rubostars@reddit
But that's when 3 kings day is, so 😆
Dissour@reddit
Boaty Mc Boat day.
HumanBeing7396@reddit
So Trafalgar day?
knightDev91@reddit
I'm surprised we didn't get a permanent one for the Queen, after she died.
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
A one off I can understand but why permanent?
We're likely to have another dead monarch in the next few years. Do we just add an extra public holiday every time a monarch dies?
HumanBeing7396@reddit
Sounds good to me!
GaryJM@reddit
Dundee and Edinburgh still have Queen Victoria's birthday as a public holiday!
lbyc@reddit
Make it flexible: everyone’s allowed to have their birthday (or the closest working day) off
HughWattmate9001@reddit
I don't think we need new ones, we can reuse old ones though. For example the War ones could be bundled into a thank you for service type thing to thank all emergency services and the army etc.
Bigbigcheese@reddit
I, personally, would prefer an increase in the statutory minimum paid leave days than allowing somebody else to dictate my time off... It would be so handy to get to choose
Personally I think we should do away with weekends and bank holidays and just have a statutory minimum of 130 days off per year...
That way I could get into an ADHD hyperfocus mode for 15 days in a row and then just give up and procrastinate on a beach for the next week...
tykeoldboy@reddit
Attenborough Day on the Tuesday after the May Day bank holiday. This would be the nearest day to his birthday
Afraid_Percentage554@reddit
I’d love to see four, one for St George’s, St Andrew, St Paddy and St David. But everyone in the UK gets a day off for each. Might bring us closer together who knows?
GaryJM@reddit
St Andrew's Day is a bank holiday in Scotland but it's only a public holiday in three council areas. If it was made a bank holiday in England, you'd have the odd situation where people in England would be off for Scotland's patron saint's day but most people in Scotland wouldn't.
SB-121@reddit
The Saints days are the logical ones. That way we get four extra (which only brings us into line with our European peers).
TheSilentBadger@reddit
29th Feb should be a holiday and you can't convince me otherwise.
MasterpieceAlone8552@reddit
If it's on a weekend though?
TheSilentBadger@reddit
Same thing we do for Christmas when it's on a weekend.
MasterpieceAlone8552@reddit
But then it wouldn't be 29th of Feb
TheSilentBadger@reddit
That's just how observed holidays work.
MasterpieceAlone8552@reddit
Yeah but 29th of Feb holiday doesn't feel like it really holds if you're celebrating it on March 2nd
TheSilentBadger@reddit
Yeah you're right... You've convinced me otherwise.
theocrats@reddit
Trafalgar day, 21st of October.
Between August and Xmas bank holidays.
What betters than celebrating defeating the French
localgasgiant@reddit
Germany 👀
ItalianChef22@reddit
Most of the bank holidays are concentrated in the spring, with a double bank holiday for Easter and one at either end of May. Admittedly, at times like now, May feels like summer, but it isn't.
We only have one UK-wide bank holiday in the summer which is normally at the end of August, so I'd argue that we need another one in the summer, either late July or the start of August.
GaryJM@reddit
I don't think anywhere in Scotland has a holiday at the end of August. The first Monday in August is "summer bank holiday" but it looks like only Paisley actually take that as a public holiday. Then nothing until Elgin and Inverclyde take the first Monday in September as "late summer holiday". I'm in Dundee and we jump straight from the Trades Holiday on the fourth Monday in July right to Autumn Holiday on the first Monday in October - nothing in August at all.
ItalianChef22@reddit
I stand corrected, we don't even have a UK-wide bank holiday in the summer then. All the more need to introduce one in my opinion!
jakattakjak19945@reddit
Bank Holiday McBankHoliday
smell_a_vision@reddit
Banky McBank Holiday Face was right there.
SimplyFootballNet@reddit
Has about a £2bn net negative impact to add a bank holiday... Good luck getting that through in these conditions.
TheSecretIsMarmite@reddit
Trafalgar day is on 21st October, that's a nice autumny mid point for an excuse for a public holiday.
Far-Sir-825@reddit
As we’re about the least productive nation on the planet aren’t they more likely to take one away?
Whithorsematt@reddit
Attenborough day.
honesto_pinion@reddit
It should be called St George's Day and it should be on the 23rd of April or the Monday following.
Voodoopulse@reddit
Far too many in that time of the year already when we have none fro
August to Christmas
Kwayzar9111@reddit
you mean september to Christmas - there is a bank holiday in August
Voodoopulse@reddit
So from August? After the August one, there's being pedantic then there's just being an arsehole
djwillis1121@reddit
They've written this exact comment under everyone that's said August to Christmas in this thread lol. I can't imagine being that pedantic
Longjumping-Gap-5986@reddit
Nobody cares about the saints nor the religion.
I'd be supportive of a UK day like Canada or Australia but fuck anything with any religious connotation.
GammaDeltaTheta@reddit
We could have a Grumpy Atheist Day - Richard Dawkins's birthday is on the 26th March.
Longjumping-Gap-5986@reddit
Perfect.
dbxp@reddit
Even when the country was more religious here I don't think saints were particularly popular, they're more of a catholic thing
UmlautsAndRedPandas@reddit
Or we scrap St George and go back to either Edward the Confessor, or St Edmund the King & Martyr of East Anglia - England's original patron saints.
Feast days are 13th Oct and 20th Nov respectively.
RoutineCloud5993@reddit
April and May are already saturated with bank holidays. They have four of the 7 bank holidays we get in the year or close to it depending on where easter is.
We need more bank holidays later in the year.
RogerMarty@reddit
No nut november
ServerLost@reddit
David Attenborough's birthday. He's the last notable person we have left worth celebrating.
Flitdog@reddit
Three new ones to be added, one in June, two in July.
Beer Gardens Rejoice in July Ice Cream Monday in June
wrain10@reddit
Halloween!
Simbooptendo@reddit
Fuck All Day
usernameinmail@reddit
January 6th, Sweet FA day?
Ok-Possible-1464@reddit
That has two very different possible meanings, both sound pretty good to be fair
Certain-Donut-9175@reddit
Either Halloween or the NHS introduction in July. Wouldn't have to be the exact date, 2nd Monday in July would be a nice midway point between late May and late August Bank holidays. Also nicer weather (theoretically!) than late October. But either would break up the dry spells!
fluentindothraki@reddit
Republic day!
Difficult_Bad1064@reddit
There needs to be one for retail staff.
If you normally get bank holidays off then you should have to work retail on the day to allow the regular staff to have a proper day off.
OrganicPoet1823@reddit
Shops choose to be open they don’t have to be
4kreso@reddit
Err no lol
YarnPenguin@reddit
I think retail staff should get between 1-3 free murders a year, increasing with length or service.
Shot_Net3794@reddit
Oh, won't somebody please think about the economy?
Artistic-Garage5223@reddit
Yes… if we introduced another bank holiday it would boost economy with tourists coming and days out around the country etc.
OrganicPoet1823@reddit
Actually each bank holiday causes a loss to the economy
Shot_Net3794@reddit
But what about all those billion pound companies that just can't afford to lose a single day?!
usernameinmail@reddit
Make Guy Fawkes Day a holiday. November needs something
Any_Fox_6092@reddit
I was surprised my first year living in England that St. Georges day came and went with no bank holiday and very little celebration that I could see. You should do it like Ireland does Paddy’s day and have a bank holiday with parades and celebrations.
BlazerSlayer7@reddit
Being as it's a dreary time of year, put one in November. Could even tie in with Remeberance Day on 11th.
ResplendentBear@reddit
The chance of this happening when we're in the economic mess we're in, particularly with productivity, is outstandingly low.
BananaNo8179@reddit
St George’s day
EUskeptik@reddit
St George’s Day for England only.
“Nation Day”.
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postexitus@reddit
end of October - Halloween, but it won't go well with public, so let's call it Friendsgiving day.
ambergriswoldo@reddit
We need one late January or early Feb - it’s a cold depressing start to the year for most - a cosy day off would be something to look forward to
SUPBarefoot_BeachBum@reddit
May 8th Attenborough day. He’s a legend and should have a legacy of a bank holiday.
cansbunsandpins@reddit
Love Attenborough but there's already two in May
Born-Wasabi8016@reddit
I'd go for St Georges day and make it law that all shops except small corner shops had to close.
Let everybody have a day off.
AnonymousTimewaster@reddit
Bonfire Night or Pancake Day. Need something other than Christmas in the horrible months.
ByteSizedGenius@reddit
I'd start by giving England and Wales St. George's/St. David's day for consistency.
Trying to think of huge historical events in the autumn... Battle of Trafalgar was in October? It might piss the French and Spanish off though.
GoldenSonOfColchis@reddit
Sounds like a bonus to me.
cannon4344@reddit
Why don't we have an Independence Day on January 31? 😁
iamabigtree@reddit
Move the beginning of May one to the end of June. Put a new one at the end of July.
No-Department-4561@reddit
St Frankenstein’s Day
RomeoJullietWiskey@reddit
It's Fronkensteen
DingoBingoWimbo@reddit
Bank day, can be may 30th, to celebrate banks and all they do for us
Yam2389@reddit
Every Wednesday - Relaxing Day
reggieko13@reddit
I did think one would have been added after Covid and would be about NHS
Mental_Body_5496@reddit
Something in early November to bridge between Bonfire Night and Remembrance Day the Monday - the friday before half term maybe?
KatherinesDaddy@reddit
1st of March - Happy Leap Year birthday Bank Holiday...
dbxp@reddit
I like the idea of adding one for Pride. In Manchester this is usually the August bank holiday but I like the idea of having it within school term time so schools can do something around it.
National holidays can be a powerful tool for displaying national values so I would support moving some of them around to do that. Maybe shift one for armistice or Guy Fawkes, women's suffrage or voting in general etc.
internalpatterns@reddit
Duvet Weekend every second Sunday, where the only thing available is water to clean your car and take a shower. You are free to go scrumping for apples however
Bayff@reddit
They get taken out of my holiday allocation at work. So, no thank you. I would rather pick when I can have my holiday.
Now a national holiday like Christmas Day, that I can get down with.
Crittsy@reddit
Trafalgar Day - Oct 21st
boringfantasy@reddit
June 21
OneCheesecake1516@reddit
It should be the day after Remembrance Sunday and called Commemorative Day.
StatisticianUsual471@reddit
We should have a minimum of on bank holiday every month
Any-Republic-4269@reddit
It's been suggested that one in October would boost domestic tourism. Given that the government is looking for growth at all costs...
GeggingIn@reddit
Brian Harvey Day. Jacket potatoes for the poor in July.
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