https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48565417

Very quietly replacing Monday 11th with Friday 8th 2020, given we have one of the fewest number of bank hols in the world, it ought to have been an additional bank hol IMO.

It doesn’t matter. We’ll be living in a post-Brexit dystopia by then. Nobody will be working anyway.

Surely it’s replacing Monday 4th not Monday 11th?

What’s a bank holiday?

Sorry. meant replacing Monday May 4th, as per BBC article!

It should be an extra day. It was a major event in history. If we are given a bonus day off because a royal gets married we should be commemorating VE Day properly.

Bankholidays ate nonsense.

Just give me more annual leave.

I agree, should be an extra day. I am fortunate to work a 37hr week so finish at 12 on a Friday so this means I am effectively losing half a bank holiday!!

we should be commemorating VE Day properly.

By sitting outside the pub all day, or having a BBQ? I doubt that a Bank Holiday for VE Day, extra or otherwise, will be used for much sombre and sober reflection on the millions of lives lost.

At some point we have to stop banging on about the war.

Bugger. That screws up my Friday-Monday weekend away. I’ll have to book a day off.

At some point we have to stop banging on about the war.

WW3 would make a nice change.

Booked a trip to France on Saturday afternoon with no knowledge of the potential change, someone mentioned it, but checked the gov bank holidays page and it showed the Monday, so thought it was all fine. Then saw the story in the press the next day FFS, things like bank holidays shouldn’t just move days in the week.

Bankholidays ate nonsense.

Just give me more annual leave.

Oh I don’t know – they have a good vibe about them.

Maybe not so much these days, not so many people are lucky enough to have them off I suppose.