Britain could get Muslim and Hindu Bank Holidays

[Rahul9090]

Britain could soon get its first Muslim and Hindu Bank Holiday days after a petition to Downing Street reached 119,000 signatures.

Any petition to the Government that hits more than 100,000 signatures must be debated in Parliament under rules established in 2011.

If a new Bank Holiday weekend is created it would be the first non-Christian religious holiday in the UK.

Diwali is celebrated by Hindus in the Autumn as the ‘Festival of Lights’.

Eid is held at the end of Ramadan when Muslims break their fast.

The petition, on epetitions.direct.gov.uk, was created by Jon Timmis calls for the Muslim festval Eid and Hindu festival of Diwali to become public holiday days.

Mr Timmis says doin gthis would go some way ‘to help recognise the importance of these faiths to many within the community’.

The petition is due to close on July 12th but is understood to have already been passed to the Backbench Business Committee, which considers the suitability of petitions for debate.

Vinod Popat, chairman of The British Hindu Voice, said he didn’t think it was a good idea- especially as Diwali is not given a set date and depends on a lunar calendar,.

‘I don’t think it is a very good idea. How many festivals are there for other religions. Should they all be marked with a public holiday?,’ he told the Sunday Express.
Britain currently has eight bank holidays each year – the second lowest in the world. Mexico has the lowest.



Britain could get Muslim and Hindu Bank Holidays | Metro News

 

[PlanetWarrior]

This is becoming one insane country

 

[Bombaywalla]

I shudder to think what will become of GB five decades into the future.

 

[AUz]

Muslims are ok, but why hindus?

Hindus are insignificant non-important people unlike Muslims. Moreover, they are very few in numbers.

 

[Bombaywalla]

^^ sure. Yet, with their insignificant numbers, and unimportant status in England, they are still the richest, the best in their respective fields, non-fanatical, non-interfering, **add another positive superlative here**, more productive than all other minority groups clubbed together, and are seen in better light than you-know-what. England is shooting itself in the foot by creating more bank holidays.

 

[blood]

as an hindu i don't really feel great britain needs to do that.

 

[jaunty]

Muslims are ok, but why hindus?

Hindus are insignificant non-important people unlike Muslims. Moreover, they are very few in numbers.

May be because unlike many Muslims they don't live on dole and actually contribute to the economy.

 

[Rahul9090]

Muslims are ok, but why hindus?

Hindus are insignificant non-important people unlike Muslims. Moreover, they are very few in numbers.

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yes muslims are much more deserving and important indeed

 

[Contrarian]

Minority pandering by Britain will make them like India - useless and unproductive.

Britain should strictly uphold the values that actually made it a great country. If they dont protect those values and culture, it will be eroded by the migrants.

 

[AUz]

May be because unlike many Muslims they don't live on dole and actually contribute to the economy.

Muslim contribution to British economy is much more than your little brain could comprehend.

For example, 33% of ALL small and medium businesses in London are owned by Muslims...generating thousands of jobs! That's just one city.

So stfu and walk along..

 

[Rahul9090]

Indian businesses driving UK employment
India’s domestic economy may be a bit subdued these days, but some 700 India-based companies operating in the UK are driving job creation – with many of the Indian-parented UK companies growing at more than 10 per cent annually.

According to new research by Grant Thornton, a UK auditor, UK companies owned by an Indian parent employ more than 100,000 people in total. A dozen of the companies employ more than 1,000 people each.

The 41 fastest growing companies in that list are growing more than 10 per cent year-on-year in terms of turnover, with 26 expanding at a rate of more than 20 per cent annually, including Infosys subsidiary Lodestone, Essar Energy, Tata Communications and Tata Consultancy Services subsidiary Diligenta.

“10 per cent growth in a pretty benign economic environment in the UK is very impressive by any standards,” Anuj Chande, head of the South Asia Group at Grant Thornton, told beyondbrics.

The best-performing 41 Indian companies in the UK are, unsurprisingly, in the sectors that India does best in. Some 32 per cent are in technology or telecoms, 22 per cent in pharmaceuticals or chemicals, and 10 per cent in engineering and manufacturing.

What are the ingredients of these companies success in the UK?

“I think it’s partly to do with Indian determination to succeed once they’ve set up and their focus and the sheer hard work ethic and the tenacity,” Chande adds.

The language affinity and the large Indian diaspora in the UK complement these attributes, allowing India-based companies to tap into a ready pool of UK-savvy senior managers.

As Chande explains in a statement:

In light of sluggish growth potential in India, investors are increasingly eager to enter, or scale up their UK operations as the British economy re-enters a growth phase. The UK and India’s cultural history also plays a large part in many Indian executives decisions to set up a base here, giving them direct UK market access and a springboard into the recovering European market.


The presence of Indian business in the UK has been helped bya string of overseas acquisitionssince 2000 when the emerging market was growing rapidly and Indian companies were gaining international recognition – a sort of reverse imperialism.

The trend has been spearheaded by the Tata Group. Tata Tea has bought Tetley Tea, Tata Steel acquired Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus and Tata Motors has bought Jaguar Land Rover, all since 2000.

That last acquisition, a landmark deal involving globally recognised luxury brands, is responsible for a large part of Indian businesses’ contributions to the UK economy today, 80 per cent of the £19bn turnover generated by the 41 groups altogether. And five of the 12 biggest employers on the Grant Thornton list in the UK are Tata companies.

The report says:

Although hindered by the current economic and political situation, there is a great deal of pent-up demand among Indian businesses looking to set up in the UK. With many Indian companies having significant cash stockpiles on their balance sheets, we might expect to see some of this potential unleashed.

As part of a wider slowdown in the past two years, interest in moving into the UK has died down, but Chande says that three Indian companies have approached him in the last week alone looking at investment in the UK. It looks like this trend is about to pick up once again.

Indian businesses driving UK employment – beyondbrics - Blogs - FT.com

 

[jaunty]

Muslim contribution to British economy is much more than your little brain could comprehend.

For example, 33% of ALL small and medium businesses in London are owned by Muslims...generating thousands of jobs! That's just one city.

So stfu and walk along..

Here is the real statistics with a valid source--

• Unemployment among ethnic minorities costs the economy almost £8.6 billion a year in benefits and lost revenue from taxes. Half of Muslim men and three quarters of Muslim women are unemployed.

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[Pakistani E]

Muslims are ok, but why hindus?

Hindus are insignificant non-important people unlike Muslims. Moreover, they are very few in numbers.

Nearly a million Hindus in Britain. What do you mean insignificant and non important? Hindus here are well integrated, that's why you never hear any complaints about them, even though they make a huge percentage in some cities and towns.

On topic, personally I don't think their is a need to establish public holidays, nearly all employers and schools etc already allow most people to take days of for religious occasions. No need for a decision at a government level.

 

[JayAtl]

Nearly a million Hindus in Britain. What do you mean insignificant and non important? Hindus here are well integrated, that's why you never hear any complaints about them, even though they make a huge percentage in some cities and towns.

On topic, personally I don't think their is a need to establish public holidays, nearly all employers and schools etc already allow most people to take days of for religious occasions. No need for a decision at a government level.

couldn't agree anymore...well put.

 

[wolfschanzze]

Muslims are ok, but why hindus?

Hindus are insignificant non-important people unlike Muslims. Moreover, they are very few in numbers.

The richest people in britain are indians, if you haven't noticed and they contribute a lot to British economy.