Chief Minister wants public holiday for Royal wedding
Monday 22nd November 2010, 2:56PM GMT.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement on Wednesday
JERSEY could celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton with a day off.
Last week UK Prime Minister David Cameron said that he was in favour of a public holiday to mark the occasion.
While Jersey does not automatically follow the UK if it announces a public holiday, Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur has said that he would like the Island to have a day off to mark the Royal occasion.
He intends to lodge a proposition to the States when he knows the date of the big day.
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What a schmoozer….obviously this is more important than Liberation Day for the locals…what a woefully predictable bloke.
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Great! Another day off!
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Obviously looking to get an Order Of The Brown Nose (OBN) from Private Eye.
Liberation Day, arguably Jersey’s national day no holiday, Royal Wedding we get a day off to string the bunting, hold street parties, etc.
No doubt there will be grants to the Parishes so they can hold Vin d’ Honneurs and the happy populace can frolic on the greens!
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And who is going to pay the employees for this proposed day off. Will our taxes and rates go up further, will our bank charges rise. Will the CM receive a knighthood. Will the overpaid wallies in the States have wonderful jollies at our expense.
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Pip (3) Don’t get me going! How about a stimulus package to keep the massed amused? Chariot racing? Gladiatorial combat? A drink down at the coliseum bar? Anything to distract us from the mess we all know we are in.
No offence Kate or Will.
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WHY???????
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Great did he think this up on his own ,What about LIBERATION day oh sorry they don’t give out medals for thinking about the people of jersey on what is our day .who is going to pay for it? we have no money to spare or has Ozouf found some it must be a Christmas miracle or April fools joke surely
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Glad to see CM is getting his priorities right…
It will be a day for forgetting the mess he and his buddies have created (and still are).
Who gives a damm about the low life’s looking for jobs that aren’t there (and those that don’t pay slave labour rates).
And maybe we won’t even notice the extra added working years before we can retire.
Nice one Terry…..you slipped that one by us. Roll on elections we say, but what have we to pick from, more of the same….God help us.
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No Liberation day and a day for this?
Mind you I look at it like this, it is giving people back their lost Liberation day, which should never have been taken away.
Anyway, extra time away from the drudgery that masquerades as work these days will be gladly accepted by the workers.
Please sir, can we have some more?
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Well the flag Is st patricks cross with 3 lions of england on it!
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as a employer in the time of cut backs etc. Is it right we should have the burden of yet more time lost and extra holiday pay to find. Who really pays? This is a indirect tax on all comapanies
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Superb, with Monday 2nd of May being a bank holiday, that’s a result. A four-day weekend!
I look forward to spending it watching endless coverage, repeats, reviews and analysis of the ‘big day’. Can’t wait to be celebrating in the streets with the good people of Jersey who are all excited about this great event which will be a fantastic day for the Island, one for the record books I think. Well-worth having a public holiday for. Forget the liberation of our Island following the occupation, that’s history and certainly not worth us all taking the time to show the gratitute we should have for why we’re all here – we should all be at work instead of course! A wedding? Now that’s an excuse for a day off!! Woo Hoo!
All the best Wills and Kate, so excited about the special edition of OK Magazine xx
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Here we go. Another Instance of The States following in the UK’s footsteps. Typical brown nosing as usual. Cant they think for themselves? in the current climate Its not a “must have” but a “nice to have” and should have said “NO”. Therefore we the taxpayer will end up paying in some way shape or form for this needless bank holiday and no doubt the weather here will be rubbish too.
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29th April Terry. Start making plans.
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29th April Terry, so start making plans.
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#10 ‘Well the flag Is st patricks cross with 3 lions of england on it!’
Not quite sure what your point is, but as you mention flags, that one has only been the Jersey flag since about 1979 (roughly the same timescale as ‘beans’) the Crapaud flag managed quite well without the ‘lions’ which I think you may find are leopards (representing our Norman heritage).
It is usual for the Bailiff, not the Chief Minister to request that flags be flown for special occasions.
I guess that by next April just about everyone with a flagpole will have upgraded to the latest fashion long tapered flags that are the current ‘must have’ craze in the island.
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In fact, shouldn’t it also be the Bailiff’s prerogative to call a public holiday?
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This is another example of Jersey appearing a bit lost when it comes to our relationship with the UK
We give a day off for the royal wedding, but not liberation day. We want to reignite the reciprocal health agreement, whilst forcing UK citizens to rent bedsits for 11 years.
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Liberation day = extremely important to the island part of our HISTORY! A Prince of England getting married = Nothing to do with the island!! We are Independent are we not. I am fed up of people acting as though we are part of England!
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Especially when I have lived in England and hardly nobody has ever heard of Jersey, ” O Jersey is that in the midlands somewhere”
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The Bailiff can call a public holiday but it must be passed by the States. By being called by the Chief Minister it just saves time, I guess. Also, yes, Liberation Day 2010 was passed by disgracefully but if the CM had not have “followed in the UK’s footsteps” and given us a day off for the wedding you’d all be complaining about how unfair it is the mainland had one and we didn’t.
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Who wil compensate small businesses for finding an extra days pay for their staff??
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You are kidding me! What a brown-nose.
Two people we don’t know are getting married, and probably divorced, I fail to see how this is of interest to any individual nevermind a nation.
And given the refusals to requests for other more worthy bank holidays would it not be decidedly odd to have one in celebration of an event that, if we are honest with ourselves, has absolutely nothing to do with any of us?
I am beginning to think that the majority of the UK (and possibly even Jersey if this goes ahead) are completely insane.
The economy was the excuse given last time we were refused a bank holiday, does that not still stand?
And for those of you who think you’ll enjoy it down the pub, enjoy watching the Royal Wedding because that’s all that’s going to be on TV.
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The island will have to send them a present as well.
Will it be a silver milk jug to commemorate the island’s farming industry or a replica suitcase stuffed with ten bob notes to commemorate the founding of the island’s finance industry?
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Why are you all complaining?! If we don’t get it as a bank holiday you will probably then complain about that too.
Yes, I agree that we should have had a bank holiday for Liberation Day – but it did fall on a weekend, so it’s not like people didn’t have the day off to celebrate anyway.
I think you are all complaining for the sake of it, and if Terry Le Sueur reads all of your negative comments about an extra bank holiday then he might change his mind! And then you will moan even more.
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#26 I can only speak for myself, but I have no issue with us not getting a bank holiday. I’m sure there are others that are quite happy not to have a bank holiday.
The only people who should get a say on this are the companies that it will actually end up costing. Why should the States be allowed to force them to lose money just because one politician wishes he was best mates with the royals?
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What a disgrace…. NO Public Holiday for Liberation Day ! Less we forget!
Public Holiday for Wedding! derrrr!
It seems we follow England/UK when we feel like it!
Get it right, Loyalty starts at home first !!!!
States Hang your Heads Very Low, How can you rate a Wedding over a Liberation !!!!
To all who survived the War, and the Brave for fighting for our freedom, I thank-you.
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I think the States are Following Kevin B****y Wilson (Australian comic) and Taking his famous saying of “D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. and using it for the way they think! Or maybe we do have a case of Mad Cows disease in the States!
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Interesting how no one has commented that as a Crown dependency the Queen officially still has a say on what happens regarding our laws etc so the Royal family are very much part of Jersey’s history and future.
However, if we do end up with a day off will I be celebrating the marriage? Nah, I’ll just enjoy having a day off and then have to catch up with the work I didn’t do when back in the office anyway.
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Yes, it’s a huge shame that we don’t get Liuberation Day off. Under the circumstances though I agree that it doesn’t make sense to have it off. No one will do anything significant to mark it. Many will just go out and get lashed as they have a free day off. Many businesses over here work according to UK time tables, so it makes no sense for them to close for a day and loose out on a lot of trade.
As for people moaning about getting a free day off for this wedding. It may not seem like it now but, this is going to be a huge event. You’ll all be loving it when the day arrives.
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The principle is not about the wedding but about repsecting your own heritage.And thats why Jersey is in the mess its in.It doesn’t know what it wants to be.Get back to your roots and traditons Jersey and only then will you gain respect.
Tel and Ozouf,all the brown nosing in the world won’t stop you both looking weak.You’d sell your granny.!
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nice to have a day off, lets hope the sun shines.
all the luck in the world to the couple.
and liberation day should be set in stone.
james(19) my mainland is clearly visiable from the east coast.
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What a farce, they refused to give us our Liberation Day off but they now want to give us a day off for a wedding.
I know what is more important to me & that is Liberation Day when we take both our elderly parents to Honour the Men & Women who sacrificed their lives for us to be Liberated.
I know what is more important & it is not wedding, it is a disgrace.
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You are completely missing the point…
We cannot have Liberation Day off because the City of London is open.
We can have the wedding off because the City of London is closed.
When will you people realise? Jersey is nothing, just look at who we have for politicians! We are British.
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But if we want to set a course as a ‘small, proud, island nation’ ( Bailiff et al, JEP’s passim ) should we not be carving out a distinctive path in the world?
One day they are talking up independence, the next we are affirming our links with the UK, sadly the island is neither fish or fowl!
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