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Additional bank holidays were created for royal weddings and the Queen's jubilee, but this is the second time that VE-Day commemoration has been marked by a recycled bank holiday from somewhere else.
What does this say about the fawning, royalist attitude of the government, and its contempt for the traditional workers' Mayday celebrations?
Additional bank holidays were created for royal weddings and the Queen's jubilee, but this is the second time that VE-Day commemoration has been marked by a recycled bank holiday from somewhere else.
What does this say about the fawning, royalist attitude of the government, and its contempt for the traditional workers' Mayday celebrations?
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Danny,
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Admittedly, there is a reduction the older one is!
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Admittedly, there is a reduction the older one is!
SJ you are lucky if you get a day off in lieu for working Bank Holidays - most care workers don't. What about all the BH events that are over two or three days and have been planned for months - and for my own particular hobby of dog shows we have to be licensed months beforehand and venues/judges booked - why on earth could they not just give us the Friday as an extra?
"why on earth could they not just give us the Friday as an extra?"
Probably because the cost to the economy is considered too much?
"Each bank holiday costs the UK economy £2.3bn a"
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Probably because the cost to the economy is considered too much?
"Each bank holiday costs the UK economy £2.3bn a"
From a trusted leftie source: https:/
