Give us a Bank Holiday for Charles’s coronation

[mummybearcub2022]

Wish the government would stop being such a miserable bunch and give us our bank holiday!

Agree you sound giddy

zero hours contract- bank holiday no help

another day of missed medical appointments- no help

I’m looking forward to the coronation but I’ve got enough brain to realise another BH in may isn’t great for everyone and happily the King knows it too.

Agree.

Lol. As if the actual king knows anything about zero hours contracts and cancelled operations.

Because it causes chaos for those who don't get the day off (retail, hospitality, health services, utilities and so on), child care issues, lost revenue. And for me I have to do five days work in four.
We get plenty of Bank holidays already.

I know - was looking forward to an extra Bank Holiday. And I couldn't care less about the royals

Also agree

I see what you’re saying, but that doesn’t add to any debt. The NHS doesn’t get any more money in a financial year with an Easter versus one without.

What holiday is he telling you you can't have?

I agree OP

We have all had a shot couple of years and it continues. An extra day off for most people is a nice thing

We get a bank holiday the weekend before. Presumably Charles didn't want to hold it then as I think (from what I read) he's trying to not make this such a massive deal. I think he recognises for the future of the monarchy, things need to appear to be slimmed down.

Having said, think lots of lots love a good royal weekend. It seems to being out lots of good cheer and humour with street parties etc.

Not everybody gets a bank holiday off. I still have to work, my DH has to go into work even though it is usually his day off and then we have the added complication that our children aren't at school.
Just book it yourself ad a holiday off work if you want it off.

Oh lighten up and stop being so dramatic, life is too short to be working so much.

Nothing stopping you taking a day off work is there? Honestly, you want to be paid then you work - or do you think you should be paid to do nothing? Talk about entitlement!!!

I agree we should have a bank holiday. England already has one of the lowest numbers of bank holidays compared to other countries.

That's interesting, and very sensible of him if so. The combination of an imposed mourning period taking out nearly two weeks plus the massive funeral and disruption of the short notice bank holiday was trying patience well beyond republicans by the end. The landscape is also likely to look quite different after the winter we're about to have: the royals are lucky enough she died before it got cold.

My business will lose a day's work. Fortunately I can reschedule or write off the losses without too much hardship. Many others are not in that position. In an already dire economic climate there is no need for the king's activities to make things worse.

I think good for him, sends the right message about paring things down.

EXACTLY! Why be so bloody awkward?

It doesn’t matter to me practically, but why wouldn’t you just do that? May is already a bust with two bank holidays and half term. we don’t need another one. Have the bloody thing in October when there’s a four month BH drought, if you must. And while people who don’t get paid might be in a minority, they are likely to be people who most need the money. People can take holiday if they are that bothered. I suspect it might be rather a non-event, anyway. The Queen was much loved, even by people who felt ambivalent about the monarchy in general. Charles is……not.

I would lose day’s wages, OP, so no, it’s not really a case of why wouldn’t everyone like a day off. If I was childless I could I guess still go out to work if clients willing but if school’s closed then can’t do that.
so for some people it’s a massive inconvenience to say at least.

I think even the level of opulence on display in a slimmed down coronation risks playing very badly now the cold is starting to set in. They know their best chance of pulling it off is when it's warmer, when people aren't in heat or eat mode.

The coronation is on a Saturday? Why do we need a bank holiday?

I'm off on holiday that day. Yay. I’ll get away from the madness.

OP is either a troll or incredibly stupid.

I personally would like another Bank Holiday. We had a street party in the street next to ours for the Platinum Jubilee.

I'm self employed and will have clients with Monday appointments. They're already missing two appointments in May and I don't want their appointments disrupted further.

A bank holiday for this is totally unnecessary.

And let's face it, the Windsors are the last family who are going to inspire one of those.