"...........gave us the spring bank holiday instead because mayday was associated with socialism."

Whilst I agree, Richard, that that was the logic behind her decisison; she and her cronies totally ignored, or most likely didn't realise, the fact that the celebration of mayday as a workers day pre dates modern socialism by centuries. Even the Catholic Church (hardly a hotbed of socialism) has May 1 as the feastday of St Joseph The Worker.

Still you couldn't expect that lot to let a knowledge of our own history get in the way of political necessity, eh? I don't see much chance of the current government changing things.