A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom or a colloquialism for public holiday in Ireland. The first official bank holidays were the four days named in the Bank Holidays Act 1871, but today the term is colloquially...used for public holidays which are not officially bank holidays, for example Good Friday and Christmas Day.I have no idea whether Brits on whole form any positive associations towards banks because of this, but if nothing else it strikes me as some nice free, positive advertising for our friendly, neighborhood Too Big to Fail banks.
Here's an idea: perhaps renaming 'bank holiday' to 'public holiday', or something similar, would allow a pol to campaign on a symbolic, anti-banker message that also poses low-to-no risk to the establishment.
We do not usually think about banks (as in financial businesses) on Bank Holidays. More likely the weather (we expect it to rain) or traffic jams. Not sure that the banks would want to be associated with bad weather and travel chaos.
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