I Don’t Think So

July 4, 2012 Longrider General News, Humour, misanthropy, Political 5

This idea is as stupid and unlikely to succeed as freedom fries.

A Conservative peer has suggested that bank holidays should be renamed in response to the “poor behaviour” of financial institutions.

Lord McColl of Dulwich told peers that they should revert to their original name of “Lubbock holidays”.

Bank holidays were briefly known as St Lubbock Days in reference to Sir John Lubbock, the Liberal MP who introduced the Bank Holidays Act in 1871.

It is at times like this that I wonder if those in the upper chamber actually have any useful work to do. I mean, really, is this the best they can come up with? And, let us remind ourselves, that while the banks have behaved badly, it is politicians that are responsible for the regulatory framework in which they operate. It is politicians that pissed our tax money up the wall. It is primarily politicians who are responsible for the mess we are in, not the bankers.

So, no, I don’t think I’ll be referring to bank holidays as Lubbock days. They are bank holidays and bank holidays they will remain.

Treasury minister Lord Sassoon said it was a “fascinating fucking stupid suggestion”.

There, fixed that for you.

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5 Comments

  1. “It is at times like this that I wonder if those in the upper chamber actually have any useful work to do. “

    They clearly think they have TOO MUCH to do – earlier in the week, some of them were agitating for a four-day week because they needed Friday off to deal with constituency matters.

    You really couldn’t make it up.

  3. I think the original idea WAS sound – they were days when “Banks” were not legally required to open for business – so couldn’t be accused of ‘defaulting’ on due payments?

  4. As a kid I can remember wondering why bank holidays were so called, now as an old git I am no wiser, despite Mjolinir attempting to enlighten me. Is it actually anything to do with banks? Names get attached to things and then catch on for all kinds of strange reasons. An example that comes to mind is a meteoric rise, meteors do the exact opposite of rising, where did this figure of speech come from? Why do we still say ‘to the ends of the earth’ when we know that the earth is roughly spherical and doesn’t have ends? What about the term backside as a euphemism for the buttocks? When you think about it, that makes no sense.

    In conclusion, who cares what we call things as long as everyone knows what we mean? Lubbock holidays is just too cumbersome to ever catch on, long weekend makes more sense but what do I know?

  5. It is at times like this that I wonder if those in the upper chamber actually have any useful work to do.

    And yet there are crazy proposals to turn it into an elected chamber, thereby having two governments, with all their costs and uselessness, in the one place.

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