Britain Day

[Drew]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6721239.stm

I'm all for another holiday, just don't expect me to be walking around the streets waving the Union Jack and shouting "God save the Queen"

What about everybody else?

[Mark]

Another hairbrained scheme from a government who has lost the plot. Mind you it is a bit of a headless chicken at the moment.

[Daniel]

The young people like bank holidays. Lets make another bank holiday that means nothing to them and they'll like us more :D

[Dave B]

Can it have a logo?

[AndyRAC]

What's wrong with St Georges day? Oh sorry, can't have that, might offend some people.

[Mark]

Can it have a logo?

Here you go, that'll be £200,000 (half price deal!)

[BDunnell]

We do need more public holidays, to be honest. Other countries have loads more. But the idea that you can somehow create national pride artificially like this is completely crazy.

[Viktory]

Here you go, that'll be £200,000 (half price deal!)

wow that's a steal!

[GRAVETT]

Britain day !!!!!??? haha waste of damn time. all the festivities will enf up having nothing to do with britain and everything to do with the 'multi cultural' minorities in britain because all local council and goverments will be too afraid to do anything british incase they offend these people

[schmenke]

How many bank holidays does the U.K. currently have in a year?

[Captain VXR]

I ain't patriotic so screw them and a bank holiday won't change my mind although I'd make good use of it

[oily oaf]

I'm a staunch believer in the old adage that "Patriotism is the last resort of the scoundrel" :mad:

I'm all for it.

[CarlMetro]

How many bank holidays does the U.K. currently have in a year?


8 currently but none between the end of August and Christmas.

I like the logo Mark, looks like you spent longer on that one than the numpty who made the London 2012 one :)

[Drew]

I say sod it, make Guy Fawkes night a holiday, surely it makes sense

Terrorists and all of that...

[schmenke]

8 currently but none between the end of August and Christmas...

Sounds like you could use a couple more... ;)

[Loobylou]

We could schmenke, it's a long haul from August to Crimbo!!

An extra holiday I like the idea of, but don't you just know it'll get all screwed up by the authorities? In their wisdom, of course.

Don't get me started on how annoyed I am that we can't celebrate St. Georges day without looking like a bunch of BNP muppets. :mad:

[GRAVETT]

damn straight loobylou, its stupid that when we want to patriotic we cant because we either offend the minoritys or we come across like the bnp idiots.
we can only have britian day if we are allowed to be british and not some multicultural joke of a nation

[millencolin]

wouldnt britian day be the day the royal family gets canned and britian becomes a republic? so.... basically when Charles is in charge the people will demand a republic... so that day will be britian day then?

[BDunnell]

damn straight loobylou, its stupid that when we want to patriotic we cant because we either offend the minoritys or we come across like the bnp idiots.
we can only have britian day if we are allowed to be british and not some multicultural joke of a nation

I am sure plenty of people from within the ethnic minorities you seem to dislike would be able to spell the word 'Britain' correctly, which I find rather ironic.

[Dave B]

Muliculturalism isn't something to be ashamed of, but it's the tiny minority of people who refuse to adapt who give the overwhelmingly majority of law-abiding immigrants a bad name. Don't tar them all with the same brush, not unless you're after a job with the Daily Mail.

[schmenke]

We could schmenke, it's a long haul from August to Crimbo!!...

I'm rather surprised that Nov. 11th is not a bank holiday :mark:

[Brown, Jon Brow]

I'm all for another bank holiday but Britain Day would be rubbish. It would either just become another commercialised crap day like Valentines Day or Fathers Day, or just be another bank holiday that you spend in a traffic jam. Even though I would class myself as being patriotic!

Make November 11th a Bank Holiday.

[BDunnell]

Muliculturalism isn't something to be ashamed of, but it's the tiny minority of people who refuse to adapt who give the overwhelmingly majority of law-abiding immigrants a bad name. Don't tar them all with the same brush, not unless you're after a job with the Daily Mail.

I agree very much. Personally, I don't understand why anyone does tar 'them' all with the same brush for reasons other than some form of latent xenophobia or worse.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

It's mostly white 'do gooders' that aren't in touch with the real world that give minorities a bad name.

[BDunnell]

It's mostly white 'do gooders' that aren't in touch with the real world that give minorities a bad name.

With respect, I honestly have no idea what you mean by that.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

I getting at people (usually journalists, politicians or just general 'gob ****es' such as Vanessa Feltz and Lowri Turner) who say things like 'Christmas decorations in town should be banned as it offends minorities' etc. In reality a vast majority of minorities don't have this viewpoint, yet they get the bad press.

Maybe I'm rambling on :\

[BDunnell]

In fact, in my experience, hardly anyone really thinks things like that. The same stories about not being able to celebrate X or Y, or say A or B, get exaggerated and recycled.

[Drew]

wouldnt britian day be the day the royal family gets canned and britian becomes a republic? so.... basically when Charles is in charge the people will demand a republic... so that day will be britian day then?

If only ;)

[GRAVETT]

Bdunnell i do not dislike any minority but its the minoritys in this country that are the reasons why we cant be proud to be british. its not always the people in these minoritys that cause the probelms but 9 as already mentioned ) the do gooders that are afriad we would offend them. and as for the your comment on recycled stories and not many people thinking like that you are very wrong. our local school doesnt celebrate christmas it celebrates 'winter week' the school my girlfriend works for has had a memo this last week that they must'nt use , ethnic minority or asylum seeker. they must now use 'guests' and 'newley british'
it seems we are afraid to call ourselves english or british and challenge these the do gooders. its not the minority themselves that get offended its us that are afraid of poffending them when theres actually no grounds to think that.
we are loosing our heritage and pretty much its born and bred white english idiots in power that are doing this.
too much emphasis is put on political correctness and human rights for us to ever allow us to have a britain day.

[BDunnell]

Well, there's nothing I feel I can't say, other than things that ought to be unacceptable to everyone. I don't understand why some people think they're under the kosh because of 'political correctness' and go on about it all the time as if they're being really radical by doing so.

[donKey jote]

we can only have britian day if we are allowed to
be british and not some multicultural joke of a nation

who's "we" ?
what does multiculturism have to do with West Yorkshire being seen as some joke of a nation ? :p :

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Well, there's nothing I feel I can't say, other than things that ought to be unacceptable to everyone. I don't understand why some people think they're under the kosh because of 'political correctness' and go on about it all the time as if they're being really radical by doing so.

I agree and disagree with you here. There are a few people who blame PC for everything (see this thread that no one replied to :( http://btccpages.motorsportforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118257)

However, in some aspects of life political correction comes before common sense. (Same can be said about the 'nanny state' culture as well)

[BDunnell]

I don't understand why anyone gets worked up over whether they have to write English or British when asked for their nationality. I don't care, personally. You are right that people bring up the idea of political correctness far too readily. I have never felt that the notion affects me at all in any part of my life, and I don't spend my whole life in some shell.