@brunthal@hfalcke Sure, I don’t deny that for a moment – you’d be hard pressed to find a country anywhere where people would willingly give up public holidays.
But that misses my point – May has a big concentration of them because of the long tail of Easter, & they would be better distributed around the year.
I’d get rid of the legacy privileges that religions enjoy (albeit only some, of course): they have no place in a modern state, just as monarchs don’t.