Hands up if you want one more Bank Holiday

Call me greedy if you like but you can’t have enough of a good thing!

We have just had a great Bank Holiday weekend, in fact one of the sunniest since Bank Holidays were invented. However we just don’t have enough Bank Holidays. It is a fact that we in the UK work the longest hours in Europe so perhaps one more day to be spent at home with our families would not be out of order. Would you rather spend that hypothetical Monday trying to salvage whatever you can of your rain-soaked, half-burnt burgers or join the smelly herd on a wheeled tin of sardines, badly masqueraded as a commuters’ train? You get my point.

A good date for this additional Bank Holiday in my opinion could be the 23rd of April, ie. St. George’s Day. After all even the population of Micronesia get to celebrate their patron saint’s day on these shores. Probably Ken Livingstone even gave them a million quid to throw a massive party in Trafalgar Square (it wouldn’t be the first time, mind you). So it’s time to reclaim St. George’s Day back from the clutches of the extreme right and celebrate it properly.

However we already have two Bank Holidays in May – do we really want one more just one week before the start of May? Do we really want Bank Holiday’ed out by the end of May and then go without one from late August until Christmas? How about Remembrance Day then? The 11th of November may be rather fitting in terms of historical importance and would be a welcome break at a time of the year when the days are getting shorter and colder.

All we need now is for this Government to re-establish contact with Planet Earth and listen to what the people living in the UK want. After all, it’s pretty obvious to me that Labour are going to lose the General Elections next year so they may as well go out in style and be remembered for something good, rather than for the current shambles that they are now. And Gordon can even YouTube it if he really likes it.