Page 1 of POLL: Should St. George`s Day be a National Holiday?

Well what do you lot think? I would like to see it as a holiday and i would also like to see pubs and clubs put as much into this day as they do St Patrick's day.

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We should have a national holiday that celebrates this nation - even if St George was Turkish!

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We should have a national holiday that celebrates this nation - even if St George was Turkish!

Just proves that England has always been multi-cultural...

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We should have a national holiday that celebrates this nation - even if St George was Turkish!

Just proves that England has always been multi-cultural...

Quick someone tell the BNP*

You bloody lot get enough of your precious `bank `olidays`.

Pfft. We get bugger all compared to the lazy bastards in continental europe.

The only reason I would support a St. George holiday is to get an extra day off work.

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even if St George was Turkish

And don`t forget he brought the Kebab`s with him when he came to England. :D

My biggest problem with the current UK holidays is that they tend to be "clustered" (one suspects historical religious reasons for this...), leading to the farcical situation where we get *one* holiday (the August Bank Holiday) between the end of May and Christmas Eve (the latter, remember, is not a UK holiday).

For 2006, this was 30th May (day after Spring Bank Holiday) to 24th Dec with one holiday (28th August) - a total of one work day off in 149 consecutive working days....incredible! It`s similar for 2007 too (29th May-24th Dec 2007 inclusive with only 27th August off).

The solution is to have a an additional holiday somewhere in either July (why not "We Lost The War Day" on 4th July :) ) or October/November (Hallowe`en or Bonfire Night anyone?) or maybe both and remove two holidays from elsewhere. For example, why do we need two working days off at Easter? Scrap the Good Friday holiday - it`s Monday`s that are normally taken off and we have Easter Monday for that. And what the freak are we doing with two May holidays anyway? Scrap May Day! Or, if you don`t like that, ditch Boxing Day - what`s the point in that holiday?

We should have more Bank Holidays and as you rightly say they should be more spaced out. A few years ago Trafalger Day (October 21st) was mooted as an extra holiday. I don`t think we could move Good Friday though. It`s the most religious day in the Christian Calendar! and the only bank holiday at the start of a weekend :)


Shaun

It will never happen

PC brigage will claim it will upset too many muslims etc Christmas is already under attack from the mofo`s

Besides which we`ll all be labelled racist seeming as you can`t display St George Flag outside you home being labelled a racist