Reply to: March 29th - prime candidate for a new Bank Holiday

[scooterscot]

A national holiday at the end of the tax year would be a welcomed one. All day off to calculate those new tax hikes.

[AtW]

Indeed it has

'According to the Lisbon Treaty (2009), EU Council decisions made by qualified majority voting can only be blocked if at least 4 members of the Council form a blocking minority. This rule was originally developed to prevent the three most populous members (Germany, France, Britain) from dominating the EU Council.[203] However, after a Brexit of the economically liberal British, the Germans and like-minded northern European countries (the Dutch, Scandinavians and Balts) would lose an ally and therefore also their blocking minority.[204] Without this blocking minority, other EU states could overrule Germany and its allies in questions of EU budget discipline or the recruitment of German banks to guarantee deposits in troubled southern European banks.[205]'

Looks like a clear incentive for them to bring Scotland on board.

[original PM]

Sadly Wikipedia has already been updated...

Indeed it has

'According to the Lisbon Treaty (2009), EU Council decisions made by qualified majority voting can only be blocked if at least 4 members of the Council form a blocking minority. This rule was originally developed to prevent the three most populous members (Germany, France, Britain) from dominating the EU Council.[203] However, after a Brexit of the economically liberal British, the Germans and like-minded northern European countries (the Dutch, Scandinavians and Balts) would lose an ally and therefore also their blocking minority.[204] Without this blocking minority, other EU states could overrule Germany and its allies in questions of EU budget discipline or the recruitment of German banks to guarantee deposits in troubled southern European banks.[205]'

[Eirikur]

Which contractor wants an extra bank holiday??? NO INVOICING

[northernladyuk]

An annual bank run would be interesting.

[BlasterBates]

Couldn't we combine this with a "Victory in Iraq" bank holiday.

[darmstadt]

Sadly Wikipedia has already been updated...

[northernladyuk]

With change comes opportunity

HTH

The old man might have some change if you need to get yourself a cuppa.

[Benny]

Also why is a contractor keen on another non-billable day?

Not to mention, post-Brexit there will be LOTs of non-billable days as all the work disappears

With change comes opportunity

HTH

[d000hg]

To celebrate in perpetuity the invoking of Article 50

Also why is a contractor keen on another non-billable day?

Not to mention, post-Brexit there will be LOTs of non-billable days as all the work disappears

[Benny]

Why the hell would any idiot want a Bank Holiday in the part of the year that will be cold or dreary?

FFS

Wuss

[Mordac]

Can we have bonfires and burn an effigy of Jean-Claude Juncker?

FTFY

I'll vote for that.

[d000hg]

The day we leave or the day we voted would be the obvious candidates, not the day she put in motion a long-winded bit of bureaucracy.

[VectraMan]

Can we have bonfires and burn an effigy of Nigel Farage?

[Mordac]

Sorry, that's rabbis, not rabbits.

So the only reason we have the Easter Bunny is because of a Biblical spellchecker?