[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I don't think people having a day off work is the defining feature of paying your respects/marking a big occasion, moving the day is perfectly appropriate and it can still be commemorated suitably imo

We didn't have an extra holiday to mark 100 years since the armistice last year

For most people a bank holiday isn't a day off anyway as it used to be.

Of course it isn't the only thing to respect the occasion.

It does however open up the opportunity of less working time and a chance to mark the occasion specially for the remaining veterans.

As to last year, how many people of 118+ were still with us.

This may be the last opportunity to mark this with former serving veterans.
However all we do is move a bank holiday to the date.

Good grief as a Nation are we now at the point of being that petty and mean.

Anyway, if I had power there would have been a weeks event.
With at least a 4 day weekend holiday.

To ensure thanks and gratitude to the few now still with us who fought and give them a week to remember.
However just to actually do something, rather than move one bank holiday, in effect doing nothing at all really.
Nothing extra certainly and I think that miserly.