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2020 Early May Bank Holiday Date Change
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This is worth bearing in mind if you're planning holidays/events etc...
The early May bank holiday, which normally falls on the first Monday in May, has this year been moved from Monday 4th to Friday 8th to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. 
02-01-20, 01:01 AM
And a whole load of calendars have the Monday as the date because they were printed before the Government made the announcement!
Of course they *could* have let us have both days as Bank Holidays, but we can't let the peasants get used to the idea of not working every hour we can make them so a few people can make more profit... 
02-01-20, 12:06 PM
I seem to remember that the early May Bank Holiday was introduced to recognise 'May Day' - the International Workers Day, only introduced in the UK in 1978 (by a Labour government of course). Johnson has stolen it
 
02-01-20, 12:13 PM
Quote:Johnson has stolen itAnd that won't be the only think he'll be taking from the workers. 
02-01-20, 12:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-20, 01:04 PM by fazersharp.)
(02-01-20, 12:13 PM)VNA link Wrote:You three rabid Marxists can not help yourselves can you. it was a genuine post to remind everyone about the change :rolleyes And as for Johnson steeling it, Mrs May was the PM when it was announced in June :rolleyesQuote:Johnson has stolen it Its get gets so boring for me to have to constantly prove you both wrong all the time.
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
Yep a genuine post. I was sitting booking holidays and noticed that my pocket diary has it down as the wrong date. Apparently it's caught loads of people out already. It never occurred to me that it was full of political connotations :rolleyes . Wish I hadn't bothered now :'(
02-01-20, 05:04 PM
(02-01-20, 01:27 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote:I was sitting booking holidays and noticed that my pocket diary has it down as the wrong date.Just checked my desk diary and that has the incorrect date too. 
02-01-20, 06:04 PM
(02-01-20, 01:27 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote:Apparently it's caught loads of people out already. I was reading about this a few months ago. People who had booked weddings etc for the bank holiday only to have the bank holiday moved meaning most of their guests could no longer make the date. In my opinion, we should have been given an extra day rather than move one of the few public holidays we have. In England, we only get New Years Day, May Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday,Whitsun Monday, August Bank Holiday, Christmas and Boxing Day. 8 in total. Scotland I believe gets the 2nd Jan as well. In other European countries (certainly in France), they get the ones above plus VE day, Ascension Day, Bastille Day (14th July), Assumption Day (15th Aug), All saints Day (1st Nov) and Armistice Day (11th Nov). (13 in total) The downside to the French ones is that if they fall on a weekend, they don't get the following Monday off instead like we do. Oh, and they only have a 35hr working week!!
Another ex-Fazer rider that is a foccer again
02-01-20, 06:10 PM
Quote:In my opinion, we should have been given an extra day rather than move one of the few public holidays we have.Agree with you 100% Apparently, they moved it once before in 1995 for the same reason. But for me May day is May. Quote:Scotland I believe gets the 2nd Jan as well.You mean people in England are working today? Stone me! Happy New Year folks!
02-01-20, 06:11 PM
(02-01-20, 06:04 PM)BBROWN1664 link Wrote:The downside to the French ones is that if they fall on a weekend, they don't get the following Monday off instead like we do. Oh, and they only have a 35hr working week!!And retire at 60 - or at least they did - which is what the ongoing strike is partly allbout. The bank holiday - we have actually had 75 years to plan yet only decided last June. :rolleyes
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
02-01-20, 06:36 PM
(02-01-20, 06:04 PM)BBROWN1664 link Wrote:In my opinion, we should have been given an extra day rather than move one of the few public holidays we have. Yep I totally agree. Foccin stingy or what!. If they were going to decide so late on, then we should have been given both days off.
02-01-20, 07:05 PM
Quote:And retire at 60 - or at least they did - which is what the ongoing strike is partly allbout.Remember that Tory government youse English just elected? Well Ian Duncan Smith’s think tank called, somewhat comically, The Centre for Social Justice, recommended that the retirement age in the UK be raised to 75. Happy days :lol
02-01-20, 08:21 PM
(02-01-20, 07:05 PM)VNA link Wrote:Remember that Tory government youse English just elected?No. My constituency elected a Labour MP with a majority of almost 10,000.
02-01-20, 08:30 PM
You know I said we've had the early May Bank Holiday since 1978......The Scots have had it since 1871 :eek
That means us English are owed 107 days off backlog. I'm taking mine now Oops forgot. I'm retired. Every day is a bank holiday :lol
02-01-20, 08:42 PM
(02-01-20, 07:05 PM)VNA link Wrote:then again we do have an NHS that needs to be paid for and the French dontQuote:And retire at 60 - or at least they did - which is what the ongoing strike is partly allbout.Remember that Tory government youse English just elected?
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
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