Should 12th July 2027 become an English bank holiday to mark 1,100 years since England’s unification?
England was unified as a single kingdom on 12 July 927 when King Æthelstan received the submission of rival rulers at Eamont Bridge, making him the first king of all the English. A petition to make 12 July 2027 a bank holiday in England for the 1100th anniversary has gathered signatures and cross-party support from figures including historians and MPs, though the government has stated it has no plans for an additional bank holiday.
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Yes. 927 is a founding, not a mood. A holiday is not the problem. The problem is a state that calls pride a trigger and a flag a risk. Mark the date and let the flag fly. Lost output is a cost. A country that cannot say its own name is a larger one. Do not confuse a day off with the permission to exist.
The second anyone suggests a summer day off, Treasury bean counters start weeping about productivity. Yet when there's a royal wedding or coronation, the state happily shuts down overnight. Marking 1,100 years since the unification is a massive historic milestone. Also worth noting we have almost the lowest number of bank holidays in all of Europe
It's about time that England had its own bank holiday.