Bank Holiday on November 1

[Janista]

Apparently a new bank holiday is being planned for Nov 1 , first to let Brexit day 2019 be a day when all can re-set and get used to the new way of doing things.

But secondly it's a great new day - perhaps it can become an annual tradition - celebrated as the UK's new Independence Day! Champagne 🍾 🇬🇧

[Songsofexperience]

Many may just drink to forget.

[Brefugee]

you need the day after an event to be the holiday though - so you can enjoy recover from your hangover…

I'm genuinely interested what people will be celebrating, though. I no longer have a horse in this race so I'm just going to watch from the sidelines and see what happens.

[notangelinajolie]

Apparently a new bank holiday is being planned for Nov 1

I would have thought the 31st October would be a more suitable date as that is the actual date we are leaving. Personally, I would prefer a day in mid June.

[prettybird]

I think they need to "celebrate" with good old fashioned and appropriate tripe .

World Tripe Day is a week too early though : it's apparently held on 24 October because in 1662 Samuel Pepys wrote on that day "So home and dined there with my wife upon a most excellent dish of tripes of my own directing."

[GCAcademic]

Wasn't Spam an American import? The Leavers need to be celebrating with something British like Lord Woolton's pie.

Even better. We can celebrate all that lovely cheap imported meat we’ll be getting from the US!

[LizzieSiddal]

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[LizzieSiddal]

More lies form the Leavers.

They just can’t help themselves.

[Peregrina]

Wasn't Spam an American import? The Leavers need to be celebrating with something British like Lord Woolton's pie.

[GCAcademic]

Laughing at Jan celebrating with a French product grin

Very unpatriotic. The true Brexiteers among us will be celebrating with Spam canapés and Babycham 🍾

[SistemaAddict]

Only one person celebrating on this thread
To ask of you are going to celebrate on 1st November and if so, what exactly will you be celebrat... http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3662553-to-ask-of-you-are-going-to-celebrate-on-1st-november-and-if-so-what-exactly-will-you-be-celebrating

[Bornfreebutinbiscuits]

Where is this being considered I don't understand?
Is this like 4th July?

[LatteLove]

You can't deny it's a historic moment which MILLIONS will celebrate wildly in the streets across the globe.

Hilarious 😂

[Havanananana]

But secondly it's a great new day - perhaps it can become an annual tradition - celebrated as the UK's new Independence Day

Certainly a number of people will be celebrating. Raab, Truss, Patel and the 'Britannia Unchained' coven and their sponsors have been plotting this since 2012. For the ordinary citizen there will be very little to celebrate.

Free from the chains of EU legislation they will be able to abolish working time regulations, reduce the minimum wage to 50p an hour in order to compete with the sweatshops of the world (there will be a special coin to remind the populace of this), abolish employee protections and allow employers to dismiss people without reason. To these fanatics everything has a price - employment, education, healthcare, housing, infrastructure - and is therefore a commodity to be traded for profit.

To them, 'taking back control' means that they and their paymasters are 'taking control' rather than Parliament taking control. They are even determined to ignore Parliament should MPs move to block Brexit before 31st October.

Having run out of colonies to conquer and exploit, the only people left for them to enslave are the British themselves. Their biggest trick has been to con those who will be most affected to vote for their own impoverishment.

[PortiaCastis]

You can't deny it's a historic moment which MILLIONS will celebrate wildly in the streets across the globe.
What utter bollocks
People will be in tears at losing their jobs and not being able to buy fresh produce
This thread has to be a total wind up

[probablymaybeperhaps]

Didn't a well known fast food retailer in the USA rename their "French fries" "Patriot fries"?

Will various European related things need renaming within Britain on Halloween night?

No more French fancies or French bread or German shepherd dogs or Spanish omlettes ... Patriot Fancies and Brexit Bread and Blitz-Spirit dogs (although probably not, Blitz being a German word) - Dunkirk dogs, Extra-British Omlettes...

[viques]

Maybe we could have early bonfires? Anyone got a suggestion for a really boring one topic poster we could make an effigy of for burning?

[probablymaybeperhaps]

To celebrate Brexit day small children will dress up in white sheets and pumpkin or cat costumes, and some teens will throw parties at which they dress up as witches, mummies, zombies and vampires, to "take back control" of the boarder between the living and the dead.

You heard it first on Mumsnet...

Yes 1st November is obviously a religious holiday marked by a full bank holiday in a lot of Catholic regions in Europe...

[Whatthefoxgoingon]

ODFOD janista.

Oh wait.

You’ve already fucked off to Australia.

[Parker231]

As I expected, those who talk about celebrations for Brexit never come back and explain what there is to celebrate over.

[kingsassassin]

It was a suggestion by Michael Gove to try and prevent a run on the pound on 1st November by closing the banks. It was explained with pictures and very easy words that a bank holiday would be a Bad Thing if it meant that banks here closed while banks everywhere else in the world stayed open and really ranked the pound. The idea has now been dropped.

[SistemaAddict]

Laughing at Jan celebrating with a French product

[SistemaAddict]

We are planning a party this year on the 31st. For Halloween as is our family tradition. The 1st November we will be in mourning.

[bellinisurge]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[TheElementsSong]

I think we need to add "Diddums" to the dictionary.

That was good timing @bellinisurge - I was working on this one last night so I just had to modify it slightly

TRUE BRITS (syn DIDDUMS): Defined primarily by blood-and-soil, and called into doubt by any taint of foreignness (see POSH ELITES). Simultaneously
(1) the finest, strongest, bravest, buccaneering, innovative, most respected and most resilient race of humanity ever created by the Almighty, able to overcome any conceivable adversity (e.g. tsunami, nuclear strike); whose Great Brexitannian Homeland will bestride the globe reaping trade deals and tribute from awestruck lesser nations (i.e. all of them), and leading all to glorious isolated sovereign atomisation.
(2) a helpless, oppressed, downtrodden and most piteous population for whom even the slightest unkind word or mere thought (e.g. being disagreed with on the Internet, see also: BELITTLING) is as injurious as being flayed alive in boiling oil; whose once-proud Brexitannian Homeland has been subjugated by nefarious collusions of jealous dictatorial nations (i.e. all of them) out to inflict unjust and insurmountable punishments.

[underthebridgedowntown]

Yeah I'm with @ScreamingValenta - making All Saints Day a bank holiday would be a good thing (sure it's been mooted before anyway). And this year we'll need to not go to work and just hide from the world and the shit show that is about to begin. I won't want to leave the house on 1st Nov out of misery that our country decided to it no longer want to work with its nearest neighbours but would rather flounce off into its own corner, so may as well make it official