Britian day

[4getmenot]

Gordon Brown has announced that he is trying to bring in a bank holiday called Britian Day, what do people think?

[4getmenot]

Sorry Britain I�m all fingers and thumbs today :-)

[daffy654]

My fiance will be happy if they do.........he works in a bank.lol

[4getmenot]

but surely that means the irish get another bank holiday when they already get it on St Patricks, cant we just have a bank holiday on St Georges

[jonnoman]

Sounds a good idea. Very patriotic.

And if people don't want to celebrate it, then they can just have a strop in bed ;D

[I.Don No]

if another bank holiday is provided it should not be called britain day......this would be another nail in the coffin of englishness

what on earth would be wrong with having one for St George's Day........

nothing of course, but we all have to remember that this government has completely lost its way!

[4getmenot]

thats exactly my thoughts, have it on st georges

[Gromit]

It should be...

Chicken Tikka Masala Day

...in honour of our national dish.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/apr/19/net notes.sarahleft

[ghetto poet]

Cheap publicity stunt. If Brown wants to make people proud of Britain again he should focus on equality and child poverty.

[MrsT]

lets call it Thatcher day!

[4getmenot]

maybe when she's dead, not long now

[funkymoped]

plain and simple.

let the rest of Britain decide what day they want as a celebration, give us, the English.....

St. Georges day.

allow us to be proud of who we are, on our chosen day !
:-)

[Eastender]

There's not enough of us British left in the country to celebrate it !!!!

[sp1814]

Eastender

What???

You think that fifty seven million isn't enough???

That's 'crayons only' talk.

[spaced]

thats57 million people, not 57 million BRITISH people.

Im all for a British Day. At last someone has had the savvy to put this country first! And it has taken a Scottish man to do it. Shame on us!

[andrea81]

Not sure if you realise, but St Davids day isn't a bank holiday either!

I would personally like to see our St's being honoured in this way!

[4getmenot]

but thats just it spaced, Ireland have st patricks day as a bank holiday already, why cant we have st davids as one

[Avatar]

St Georges day, bad idea.
We already get 2 at Easter( often in april), then another 2 in May.
Lets have one on in October forTrafalgar Day instead! As an added bonus it'll wind up the Frogs.

[popsickle]

eastenders got a point tho

[Quinlad]

Britain has the lowest number of national (bank) holidays in Europe. It also has the least statutory annual leave.

I'm all for more holidays but, given the choice, don't you want it added to your annual leave (so you can take the time off when you want) rather being made to take it on a random monday, along with 57 million others?

[persianlady]

Why not have a National Family Day? Or a British Family Day? (the emphasis being that we get to spend time with our family ( assuming that most people would want to!)