cultural differences: June 2004 Archives

Recurrent meme from The Guardian, apparently we still lag down the scale in terms of number of bank holidays as compared to the rest of Europe, even with the additional ten countries. There is a campaign website to rectify this asking you to vote for a preferred day, personally I think an autumnal bank holiday would be best, but it is not as straightforward as it seems. Funny sniping from the CBI too, puffing about keeping Britain competitive, "We all like the idea of more time off, but most people understand that can't come without cost" — live a little!