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11 comments:
What LONG weekend?
Most places in Scotland do not have Monday off.
Most are getting Tuesday off but hey you go back to work and then you off again. I also know a number of schools still open today up here.
Most bus companies are running normal or Saturday services....
Amyone else want to suggest that the Queen looks like the back end of a bus?
Vive La Republique!
I think someone maybe sent to the Tower for a comment like that!
I can't blame the Scots for saying it especially when there not getting the day off. I've not seen any buses in Scotland repainted for the celebration
First Aberdeen have one with Diamond Jubilee vinyls on the usual Barbie livery.
Anonymous said...
"I can't blame the Scots for saying it especially when there not getting the day off."
I seem to recall that Scotland has an extra bank holiday every year at New Year, which this site confirms:-
http://www.bankholidays2012.co.uk/scottishbankholidays2012.html
Actually it appears that Monday is an official bank holiday in Scotland as well, so I'm not sure what the griping is about.
But then, as a Brit living in Germany I am used to the complaints about the apparent shortage of bank holidays in the UK - compared, e.g. to Germany. It's a bit like some newspaper reports - don't let the facts get in the way of a good story (or a good moan in this case). In fact, German bank holidays stick to specific days, and if that day happens to be on a weekend - bad luck! If Christmas Day is on a Saturday, then you'll have to be content with the afternoon of Christmas Eve - the two Christmas days will be one weekend, and New Year will be on the next weekend - so it's 5 working days in between and back to the grindstone on the Monday after New Year. So the Brits don't have much to complain about!
The Monday off has nothing to do with the Jubilee, rather it is the Spring Bank Holiday we get every year in England. Tuesday is the additional day we don't normally get.
I really don't see why we have to have all these additional holidays. It causes mayhem and additional costs for businesses. If we must have Bank Holidays then I do like the German idea, same dates each year and if it's a weekend tough. If you leave out special holidays like the Jubilee celebrations it seems to me that most people use their extra day off to go shopping.
I've not seen any buses based in Wales that have been liveried to celebrate the Jubilee, though there are bound to be some.
Without wanting to get too involved with any debate about royalty, Wales and Scotland are hardly likely to be areas that thrive on the current wave of Britishness and Royal Family fever - if anything they are far more likely to oppose such feelings than England ever will. I know of lots of places in Wales where there are no jubilee celebrations as no-one wants to bother.
Private bus operators in these countries are not going to risk alienating its passengers by promoting the jubilee, Britishness, the Union Jack etc.
Some supermarkets in Wales fly the English flag during World cups, European Championships etc as they are told to do so on a national basis but there is usually lots of resentment to it and rightly so.
"If we must have Bank Holidays then I do like the German idea, same dates each year and if it's a weekend tough"
Glad I don't work for you. With that view you sound like a miserly boss.
Neil
Moving into the nationalism debate I see. Always dangerous... I recommend Gellner "Nations and Nationalism", or Peter Alter's "Nationalism" for anyone wanting to really understand how ludicrous the 'idea' of the nation really is anyway. For a start, it makes us think there is some distinctive difference between a Welshman and and Englishman. There isn't - and any nonsense that says so is all made up, and usually no older than 150-200 years maximum.
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