In the interstest of tourism, to encourage us to take more holidays in the UK, the government are proposing moving the spring bank holiday to October!? DHHHUUUURRRRR!

They also want foreigners to come here then too. Why encourage tourism in October when it’s cold? That’ll have them flocking back for more (not)!

My abiding memory of the weather in October over the past 45 years is that it’s most often freezing cold, wet and windy! It’s the best time to go to Europe to escape the terrible UK weather and to get the full benefit of the autumn Mediteranean sunshine. So Brits would treat it as an opportunity to head out of the UK, not stay here and spend their money. Total policy fail!

Why not September? It’s often great weather during that month, but after August Bank holiday, that’s most people thinking the holiday season is over.

Why is it that politician’s continually get things so badly wrong?

As an alternative, why not scrap one of the Bank holidays attached to Easter? Again, it’s often cold and wet at Easter as the summer hasn’t got going by then and this break is a bit of a ball ache foisted on us by religion. Easter falls at different times each year due to the lunar cycles, so it’s always messing up school holidays and often way too early.

If we nicked say Good Friday and had a bank holidays spaced evenly at 1 month intervals in May, June, July, then a gap and one in September, we could take advantage of the liklihood of better weather. If religion wasn’t such a dominant thing, i’d scrap bank holidays at Easter all together and add a bank holiday in August. The religious types would still have Easter Sunday and the rest would enjoy a bank holiday in the warm summer weather.

This assuming we could afford so many holidays.

If the government want to regenerate the economy so we can afford to go on so many holiday spending sprees, they need to be radical:
Slash benefits and make a system where individuals largely get out what they put in.
Lift red tape/restrictions on business.
Slash taxation – not a chance, we are so overborrowed thanks to you know who!

Do you think an October Bank holiday is a good idea and if so, why?

Daily Mash

May day is surely too long a tradition, it did cross my mind that this could be the Tories, now removing a holiday that has become associated with socialism, they wouldn’t do that would they? 😉

Having one in October would spread them out a bit more evenly but I’d prefer it in the Summer.

I’d go for the one a month idea, but then again I quite like the cluster of Spring Bank Hollidays as they give me an excuse to get out on the bike in daylight on fairly dry trails after suffering through the winter mud in the dark for 4 months.

can we get rid of them all and I will take my holidays when i want rather than when the state says?

can we get rid of them all and I will take my holidays when i want rather than when the state says?

Actually I like the idea of days when everything shuts down, making sure families have more time together. I would even prefer Sunday returned as a proper day off (not for religion).

I’d go for the one a month idea, but then again I quite like the cluster of Spring Bank Hollidays as they give me an excuse to get out on the bike in daylight on fairly dry trails after suffering through the winter mud in the dark for 4 months.

Easily resolved by moving British Summertime in line with Europe and the same in winter.

Those in Scotland don’t like this idea, so they can have their own time zone, job done!

I don’t know why they make such a fuss up there because it actually gets lighter earlier and gets darker later in this time of year and this effect becomes more pronounced as we move towards the summer solstice. The effect declines gradually after the summer solstice and even by late autumn, it’s still dark in the south well before Scotland is.

Only problem with syncing up with the rest of Europe is that UK time would be permanently out of kilter with GMT (or UTC). Short of moving the meridian line, we would just have to accept the British astronomers were 15 degrees of latitude out from where they needed to be! 😉

October 21st, no doubt about it. It’d be great to have a holiday on my birthday, every year.

At least it would be if I lived in the UK, anyhow.