Sources: The Guardian and UK public holidays (qppstudio.net). In the running saga of the search for a new UK public holiday, a new idea has recently surfaced; that of making the 2012 Tuesday after the Summer Bank Holiday (in between the culmination of the Olympics and the start of the Paralympics) a public holiday, thus creating a 4-day public holiday. The reasoning is that 2012 is the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee (60 years on the throne) and that a special one-off public holiday was declared for the Golden Jubilee in 2002.There are however some issues with the above idea, notwithstanding the fact that a new bank holiday requires a Royal Proclamation to be implemented. First, the Summer Bank Holiday is on a different date in Scotland than the rest of the UK. Secondly, in 2002, the late May bank holiday was cancelled to make way for the early June Golden Jubilee holiday, leading one to wonder if a consensus could be reached on which 2012 public holiday to cancel. Finally, if current proposals being considered by Gordon Brown for a bank holiday to honour the armed forces were implemented, a further holiday in 2012 would be much less likely.
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