Like Saint George's Day, Saint Andrew's Day and Saint Patrick's Day, this ought to be a public holiday throughout the United Kingdom.
Away with pointless celebrations of the mere fact that the banks are on holiday.
That they are about nothing is why we barely keep most of our holidays, instead requiring great swathes of the population to work on them.
That does not happen anywhere else.
Saint's days were the original ' bank holiday's' where banks would remain closed. There were dozens of them and it caused huge inconvenience to everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe Bank Holidays Act, was introduced to help regulate these holidays and their impact on business and ordinary people.
It gave business, commerce and the public their first official public holidays which, as they replaced the banks usual habit of taking holidays were called bank holidays. Originally there were about four or five of them.
They don't, as you put it, just celebrate the fact that the banks are closed. It is just a figure of speech.
It is from Chesterton, but one cannot expect you to know that.
DeleteThe dozens of holy days in the Middle Age were certainly not a huge inconvenience to "everyone". Just to the likes of you, but that was the point.