Who wants a holiday at the end of November?

Here we go! Gesture politics at its worst. Having opposed it last year, the First Minister has become a true believer. The BBC reports:

"Scotland's first minister has backed calls for St Andrew's Day to be declared a holiday.
Jack McConnell said he was prepared to lend Scottish Executive support to a new law which would allow banks to close on 30 November.
He wants to encourage businesses to give staff the day off - in exchange for an existing public holiday."

I suppose it will be like this until after next May.