Calls to make June 21 a Bank Holiday to celebrate ‘end of lockdown’ as Brits share brilliant memes
COOPED-up Brits are calling on Boris Johnson to make June 21 a Bank Holiday so they can celebrate the 'end of lockdown' with a bang.
The calls have flooded the internet with Twitter awash with people ready to party.
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If the PM's roadmap goes to plan, a raft of new freedoms will come into place on June 21.
Nightclubs will reopen and weddings will be back on, with eager Brits hailing it Independence Day.
One person wrote on Twitter: "June 21st should be a bank holiday if you ask me."
Another tweeted: "@BorisJohnson what do you think about declaring the 21st of June, a NATIONAL Bank Holiday? I think it makes perfect sense."
And a third posted: "They may as well make the 21st June a bank holiday 'cause no ones going work are they?"
Meanwhile, memes have flooded the internet in excitement, with one person writing: "My birthday is on June 22nd. Party at my house ... everyone is invited!"
Another shared a picture of a guy with all their clothes neatly laid out beside them. "Me the night before pubs and bars reopen," they wrote.
Someone else compared themselves to Gemma Collins, vowing to go out every night after June 21.
Others breathed a sigh of relief as the date in June gives them plenty of time to prepare their summer body.
The Government's blueprint will see pub gardens, hairdressers, gyms and shops open on April 12.
Families and friends will then be able to stay at each other's houses - or in a hotel together - from May 17.
Diners will also be allowed inside restaurants and drinkers into pubs if things remains on track.
Big events like concerts and sporting events could also go ahead with limits on the number of people allowed to attend, and gyms will reopen too.
But the key date everyone is waiting for is June 21, when all other restrictions will be lifted.
From then on, nightclubs will be allowed to reopen, along with theatre performances.
It is also hoped restrictions on weddings will be scrapped, with a decision due to be taken nearer the time based on the numbers of deaths and the success of the vaccination rollout.
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Speaking today, Boris Johnson said he was "very optimistic" about the final date.
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While visiting a school, he said he was confident about a slow, cautious return to normality, adding: "We can really look at that June 21 date with some optimism."
And offering a glimmer of hope last night, he said: "There is light ahead, leading us to a spring and the summer, which I think will be seasons of hope, looking and feeling incomparably better for us all and from which we will not go back."
