There are a few reasons out there but the main one seems to be that it falls too close to Easter and, as Easter moves around, there would be years where St George’s day clashes with the liturgical ‘Easter Time’ in the Church calendar.
It is also close to the May bank holidays.
>In a 2018 poll carried out by YouGov Omnibus, 49% of English respondents said St George’s Day should be a bank holiday in England only, while 24% said it should be a bank holiday for the whole of UK.
So 24% of English people love their country so much that they don’t even know what their country is.
I belive it is because when it was proposed by the politician last time he was branded a communist.
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The elites see a big dip in their profits each bank holiday so they don’t let us have too many.
I don’t think any of the Patron Saints days are in Britain…
Unless they also increase the statutory minimum leave days to 29 what’s the point?
Would only mean that a lot of workers would have 9 bank holidays off, leaving 19 days to do with as you want.
People won’t get more time off.
Because they’d have to give it to the other patron saints. And no way are they giving us 4
I mean sure, if you also make other St days bank holidays for their respective countries. However that would be 4 extra bank holidays all at differently times for the uk which seems like a ball ache to sort out.
Because they lock you up for saying you’re English nowadays.
He’s celebrated for killing a fictional animal. Everything about St George’s day is weird. He’s from Turkey, and since Great Britain isn’t Catholic we shouldn’t be dealing with saints at all.
Labour had a commitment to introduce it as a bank holiday IIRC, but they didn’t win the election.
I wouldn’t know it was St. George’s day without reddit commenters pre-emptively being negative about it.
Surely you have bigger issues to be sad about Chaps?
If we created a bank holiday for St George’s, the SNP would find a way to whine about it somehow.
Probably a good thing it isn’t. Reform UK and the sort of people that follow GB News and that non-sense seem to be out in force today thinking we should make a big deal out of it in some sort of Americanised “remember hoo we R” way.
We don’t need to celebrate a character that doesn’t really do anything for English cultural identity (because it’s too diverse as it is anyway – historically and culturally), and culturally we don’t really care for symbols and have always had the Monarchy for symbolic stuff. Also it’s never been celebrated so why start now other than to divide and stoke dangerous nationalistic narratives which can only lead to racist remarks and division?
The only thing we seem to care about is this adopted commercialised view that all holidays should be about spending as much money or getting as drunk as possible, and with English Lout behaviour being a problem as it is the last thing we need is to celebrate it – especially the strain it puts on health, court, police and other emergency services. We’ve got plenty of other holidays on this side of the year from Easter to May/Spring, and whatever the Royals bank holidays do (and even if you are not a Royalist, just do whatever you want – make it what you want, same for Easter).
Because he probably didn’t exist and if he did, he was Syrian.
And th more holidays we have, the less the profits for the kleptocracy. Except in certain industries.
Because a man born in (what is now) Turkey slaying a fictional dragon doesn’t really bear any resemblance to modern-day England, so it would be quite odd to introduce a bank holiday for it in 2023.
Because nobody takes a holiday from hating the English.
Because it’ll legitimise racists and xenophobes to be more racist and xenophobic on that day.
Same reason St David’s Day isn’t in Wales, Westminster Tories refused to allow it!
Because then we’d have 24 hour rolling coverage of midwit dickheads like James O’Brien telling us he was Turkish migrant (depsite Turkey not existing at the time).
Because a Corbyn led government was sabotaged (by the Labour right and others). He wanted to make it a public holiday. But, no, that was not to be.
There’s so many bank holidays around this time. Can we have another in actual summer please?
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Because we’re not a Catholic country?
There are a few reasons out there but the main one seems to be that it falls too close to Easter and, as Easter moves around, there would be years where St George’s day clashes with the liturgical ‘Easter Time’ in the Church calendar.
It is also close to the May bank holidays.
>In a 2018 poll carried out by YouGov Omnibus, 49% of English respondents said St George’s Day should be a bank holiday in England only, while 24% said it should be a bank holiday for the whole of UK.
So 24% of English people love their country so much that they don’t even know what their country is.
I belive it is because when it was proposed by the politician last time he was branded a communist.
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The elites see a big dip in their profits each bank holiday so they don’t let us have too many.
I don’t think any of the Patron Saints days are in Britain…
Unless they also increase the statutory minimum leave days to 29 what’s the point?
Would only mean that a lot of workers would have 9 bank holidays off, leaving 19 days to do with as you want.
People won’t get more time off.
Because they’d have to give it to the other patron saints. And no way are they giving us 4
I mean sure, if you also make other St days bank holidays for their respective countries. However that would be 4 extra bank holidays all at differently times for the uk which seems like a ball ache to sort out.
Because they lock you up for saying you’re English nowadays.
He’s celebrated for killing a fictional animal. Everything about St George’s day is weird. He’s from Turkey, and since Great Britain isn’t Catholic we shouldn’t be dealing with saints at all.
Labour had a commitment to introduce it as a bank holiday IIRC, but they didn’t win the election.
I wouldn’t know it was St. George’s day without reddit commenters pre-emptively being negative about it.
Surely you have bigger issues to be sad about Chaps?
If we created a bank holiday for St George’s, the SNP would find a way to whine about it somehow.
Probably a good thing it isn’t. Reform UK and the sort of people that follow GB News and that non-sense seem to be out in force today thinking we should make a big deal out of it in some sort of Americanised “remember hoo we R” way.
We don’t need to celebrate a character that doesn’t really do anything for English cultural identity (because it’s too diverse as it is anyway – historically and culturally), and culturally we don’t really care for symbols and have always had the Monarchy for symbolic stuff. Also it’s never been celebrated so why start now other than to divide and stoke dangerous nationalistic narratives which can only lead to racist remarks and division?
The only thing we seem to care about is this adopted commercialised view that all holidays should be about spending as much money or getting as drunk as possible, and with English Lout behaviour being a problem as it is the last thing we need is to celebrate it – especially the strain it puts on health, court, police and other emergency services. We’ve got plenty of other holidays on this side of the year from Easter to May/Spring, and whatever the Royals bank holidays do (and even if you are not a Royalist, just do whatever you want – make it what you want, same for Easter).
Because he probably didn’t exist and if he did, he was Syrian.
And th more holidays we have, the less the profits for the kleptocracy. Except in certain industries.
Because a man born in (what is now) Turkey slaying a fictional dragon doesn’t really bear any resemblance to modern-day England, so it would be quite odd to introduce a bank holiday for it in 2023.
Because nobody takes a holiday from hating the English.
Because it’ll legitimise racists and xenophobes to be more racist and xenophobic on that day.
Same reason St David’s Day isn’t in Wales, Westminster Tories refused to allow it!
Because then we’d have 24 hour rolling coverage of midwit dickheads like James O’Brien telling us he was Turkish migrant (depsite Turkey not existing at the time).
Because a Corbyn led government was sabotaged (by the Labour right and others). He wanted to make it a public holiday. But, no, that was not to be.
There’s so many bank holidays around this time. Can we have another in actual summer please?