Fun Online Polls: Bank Holidays and Bail-outs

The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

What do you call a week day on which most people don't go to work?

A Bank Holiday - 33%
A General Strike - 8%
Depends on the context - 18%
Comes to much the same thing, really - 34%
Other, please specify - 8%

So that was a pretty close result, but "Comes to much the same thing, really" just scraped through to the finish line. Which is my own view, as it happens. I mean - what would happen if the unions declared a General Strike for a certain day and the government then declared that day to be a Bank Holiday?

Pedant points to Bruce: "As the working population is less than half the population, that's every day of the week that most people don't go to work."
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What is most alarming about the Spanish bank bail out is that nobody is in the slightest bit surprised, they were hotly denying it until the end of last week and they hey presto, come Monday morning it was a done deal and the Spanish PM was hailing it a success for the Euro-zone. So the bankers get away with it yet again and are now presumably limbering up for the next bail out, I guess they'll "do" Italy next, seeing as they/the EU have already got one of their place men in charge.

For the record, following the Irish bail out, in a November 2010 poll our view was that Portugal would be next, followed by Spain. Portugal was duly bailed out five months later but Spain managed to hang on until now.

I (quite wrongly) didn't consider Greece to be a bail out candidate - in November 2011, I asked how long they'd manage to keep Greece in the Euro-zone. Only 18% thought longer than the end of 2011, so a retrospective 'well done' to them.

So who's next?

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