Are we not in the middle of a significant global financial crisis?

Was this recession not largely facilitated by greedy banks and their haphazard lending policies? And certainly here in the UK, don't you and I as good ole' Tax payers now 'own' a significant chuck of these fast-toppling institutions?

Any Government with balls should then surely say - 'Bank Holiday? Get stuffed - you've got work to do!!'  

Let the rest of us enjoy a Bank Holiday, yeah sure.  We could even spend some of them outside the Bank's head offices, poking fun through the windows and checking on their work-rate.  But the Bank itself? forget it man! They have catastrophically changed the face of our finances forever. The Government bangs on about ensuring there will be 'fundamental changes' to the way they are run and how they operate in general.  There's lots to do to make up for the lack on confidence and general hideous debt accumulated as a result of their incompetence. 

So all this work is to be done, just not on Bank Holidays? Gimme a break. 

Frankly, they don't deserve holidays; they should be wholly embarrassed just by the idea of ponsing off work for another week of the year because of some old fashioned notion from yester-year.

It's tough out there - and Banks need as much time as possible to make amends.  Why burden them by restricting their time to do it in..!?  

New slogan ideas: HSBC - The World's Local Bankrupt.  May catch on...