Labour Want Four More Bank Holidays

idiots, 3 more holidays within 2 months of each other, to go along with the 3 there already is at that time

though i do think 20 statutory holidays is about 3 too few

Did he mention how the costs would be covered ?

Labour Party

IS Corbyn said it would be cost neutral as the lost productivity would be matched by increased spending on the day off.

Im thinking of writing to him and suggesting another 200 Bank holidays using that logic.

idiots, 3 more holidays within 2 months of each other, to go along with the 3 there already is at that time


He should propose one for October 28 - St Jude.

Dot,
That's bang up there with labour's borrow your way out of debt lunacy they used to insult us with.

Things are much better now. Giving it all away.

giving what away ?

holidays create wealth

where would we be without christmas and easter spending ?

cant see the point - folk don't like holidays .

everyone moaning like hell over Christmas and can't wait to get back to work 

we're a working country not a holiday island

Did he mention how the costs would be covered ?

what costs?

The 2 billion+ per day we lose every bank holiday is lost productivity maybe

"Didn't realise that the Scots already have one more BH than England and Wales, and N Ireland have 2 more! "

If that's true I'm not sure how well these are observed. E.g. How many companies in Scotland take St Andrews Day off (which was no doubt created for political reasons)? Banks aren't required to close, and employers don't need to give it as a day off (and AFAIK ignore it). So it's AFAIK a holiday on paper only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Andrew%27s_Day#Bank_Holiday

TBH who want's extra days off when the weather is cr*p anyway? How about one for VE day or VJ day when the weather is likely to be nicer.
Givce two fingers to Merkel and her fourth reich at the same time, or Nintendo and their quest for world domination usign the WII.

we could have a brexit day too

Honestly what are you going to do with an extra day off on a cold dark wet day on the 30th Nov or a rainy day in april anyway?

Get bladdered and post your favourite oven chip on chit chat. It just costs the NHS money in liver disease.

Get bladdered and post your favourite oven chip on chit chat.

"holidays create wealth

where would we be without christmas and easter spending ?"

Do you advise Corbyn on economic policy donny?

Easter spending? I spent zero on Easter this year. Same as last year. Do any of you spend any extra money at easter?

Labour love a good strike.

With personal debt in the UK a growing concern, Corbyn proposes a measure that he thinks would see people  spending even more.

Keep 'em coming Jeremy.

this is the kind of issue that really shows up the so-called "populists" for what they really are - they're not looking to improve the lives of the ordinary man at all they're just privileged capitalists looking to protect and increase their wealth

you've been conned

Ibrahima Sonko
giving what away ?


Money. If you're employed your employer will give you money without your doing anything for it.

But looking a bit further down the road. If you are an employer you'll need to put up your prices to compensate for having to pay people who aren't producing anything and the self employed will need to put up their prices because they need to earn the same amount per annum but now with less actual working days.

Totally agree bix.

So people spending money they dont have is good for the economy, i would of thought the biggest gainers of extra bank holidays would be the companies who have goods to sell.

great....

if it all goes t1ts up just get the bankers to pay for it all....


They already owe billions from their last f#ckup.

Would cost the NHS half a billion quid.

that's ok then because nearly that much extra will be going to the NHS each week after we leave the EU

4 more Bank Holidays hardly going to be a vote winner, and he badly needs massive support. But he did seem calm and thoughtful on Marr, although priorities all screwed up. One very annoying thing about May, she keeps saying, "let me be absolutely clear" ...... and then proceeds to be anything but !

Has anybnody mentioned the hard working families yet?

What about us lazy bastards?

WELL IT SHOULD BE ALL THE SAME

WE ARE ALL UK

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holidays create wealth

where would we be without christmas and easter spending

Quiet don't let Jeremy have any good press

Lloyds sold off at a profit. £400m in dividends. returned to the tax payer. Nothing special but it was something.

Hardly any mention on the news.

Scotland Bank Holidays


Date    Day    Holiday
1 Jan    Sun    New Year's Day
2 Jan    Mon    New Year Holiday
3 Jan    Tue    New Year Holiday
14 Apr    Fri    Good Friday   POSTMEN WORKED IN SCOTLAND BUT NOT ENGLAND
1 May    Mon    May Day
29 May    Mon    Late May Bank Holiday
7 Aug    Mon    August Bank Holiday
30 Nov    Thu    St Andrew's Day
25 Dec    Mon    Christmas Day
26 Dec    Tue    Boxing Day

Remember you will still have the choice to work so no one can complain at this

You will get time and a half or double time

Either work it or take the day off

I know would do

I know what i would do*

Easter holiday (variable)    Good Friday    Ayr, Dumfries and Galloway, East Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Inverclyde, Kilmarnock, Paisley, Stirling, South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire

Easter Monday    Ayr, Edinburgh, Falkirk, East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Kilmarnock, North Lanarkshire, Paisley, Stirling, South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire


Scotland split Easter we work around it

Not hard with so many people on this Island

Also look at all the days

Saint Days

I thought we wanted out culture back you know the Christian one everyone keeps banging on about ?

If you are self employed or on zero hour contracts a Bank holiday is a days wage lost.

Not if you sell on Ebay trade on Betfair

Only some will lose out

I lose out on Christmas Day i demand a change

This is just bringing in more holidays before the basic income comes in

Give it a few more years Labout and SNP working together and if no one can see this then

Labour*

Not if you sell on Ebay trade on Betfair

Oh yeah silly me  well that must be all of about 0.001% of the self employed.

So the 0.0001% dont matter ?

Self employed does not mean you cant go cut someones grass fort them if your a gardener

If your a DJ you get more work

If your a tradesman you can do more homers and get more cash

Delivery drivers i get parcels on Sundays from Hermes so im sure they ill work Bank Holidays

A painter can paint on his own surely or do his van wheels get clamped on Bank Holidays

Many clients don't want the self employed to turn up on bank holidays.

BHs are a pain in the ar*e for us self employed.

So it's all about the Self employed not the man/woman in ten supermarket

Ah i see whats going on here

in the supermarket *

TheBaron has a point with ZERO hour workers but i aint having this Self Employed workers will be hurt bad.A self employed worker should not be stuck on what to do with 4 days a year.It will never be 4 hardly anyway like today St Georges day is a Sunday anyway.

Not at all. Just pointing out that BHs are not great for a growing section of the population.

Anyway, it's a daft suggestion from a desperate party. Far better to be honest with us and say we need to work harder, pay more tax to fund the black hole in NHS and elderly care budgets.

any other country would be swiping the 4 and asking for more

be easier for the self employed to travel about on bank holidays as not as much traffic

Jeremy has just pulled out the Ace card

He could just ban Sunday trading and give retail workers (and hunsbands!!) a break.

Has he proposed this  ?

I would back it

I thought we were gonna get an extra bank holiday when the brexit vote won....

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/674986/Our-independence-day-Top-campaigner-wants-new-bank-holiday-Brexit-camp-wins-vote


...as usual they're all full of sh1te

Do Schools in England get half days on Fridays ?

...as usual they're all full of sh1te


NEVER

Nope. They get days off when the teachers strike though..

If we had an Independence day bank holiday would anyone be moaning ?

Scotland Schools been getting half days for 20+ years now i think

If this went trough we would see 3 Monday bank holidays on the bounce some years

Easter Monday / St Georges then Mayday

4 day week here we come

I remember on here people used to say a 4 day week would be plenty as other countries do this

Plenty people are on 16 hours a week so i can see it happen eve if the Tories get back in

Not read any of the posts yet but what a ridiculous idea.  Typical Labour.

One of Corbyns advisors supports a 3 day week.

Tells you all you need to know about Corbyns judgement.

"Raise the minimum wage", I hear them cry.  Fair go but whose gonna pay for it as the small businesses can't afford to continue and the honest, hard-working (wo)man becomes yet further run into the ground

Trilby would you be happy if they took St Andrews day off Scotland as a bank Holiday ?

It is'nt one now TC

The other 3 UK countries would just get their extra day for their patron

Christian country and all that would this not be GREAAAAAT for getting one over the big problem of losing our identity

Apr 23, 2017 -- 6:15PM, TheChaser wrote:

Trilby would you be happy if they took St Andrews day off Scotland as a bank Holiday ?

I think I misunderstood.

Fair to middling mate.  We get enough holidays as it is.

Scotland gets January 2nd as official.

That's good cos it helps with our hangovers

Is St Andrew's Day a public holiday?
In 2006, the Scottish Parliament passed the St. Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007, which designated the Day as an official bank holiday. If 30 November falls on a weekend, the next Monday is a bank holiday instead.

Apr 23, 2017 -- 6:19PM, TheChaser wrote:

Is St Andrew's Day a public holiday?In 2006, the Scottish Parliament passed the St. Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007, which designated the Day as an official bank holiday. If 30 November falls on a weekend, the next Monday is a bank holiday instead.

Fake News, imo.

You sure about that ? Where you been in a cave

I've never been given November 30th off work!

Trilby teh Welsh / Irish / English dont get St Andrews hey want their patron days

And we are ALL UK as seen in the INDY ref we are one country

So surely all same holidays

GET OT SORTED THE MORE THE MERRIER

No worries mate.

You wanna join my comedy act?  There's a Fred aboot it somewhere ...

What do you joke about i stop at the racist jokes

What you call a black man with white hair

Mopianoonmaheid?

I'm all for workers getting more holidays but it would be better if they could choose when to take them rather than odd days here and there which only cause disruption especially for corporations with export markets.

They would get the choice to work the Bank Holiday if the place they worked at was open

Like Easter Monday shops are still open people take holidays and some work

be more European - British work too hard.

people worked themselves into so much of a frenzy now with Corbyn that holidays are bad

no no no no 

you have that wrong

we have worked ourselves into such a frenzy trying to negate anything good about corbyn (in the media) that we need
a holiday as we are exhausted from our exertions from telling the great unwashed that corby
is UNGOOD

Britain is near the bottom of the league for bank holidays with a grand total of 8 , Most other European countries have 11 or 12 with America having 10 , Japan 14 , Russia 15 etc , I suppose we could always go back to the days when there were no bank holidays or indeed holidays at all, that would take us back to the Victorian Values of a recent prime minister and her love of money and greed and having people working all day for a pittance