Prime Minister to announce it to be legitimate to sell goods in imperial measures

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...atinum-jubilee

[howoldboy]

Imperial measures won't change some things:-


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[_Stefan_Kuntz]

This imperial system announcement is utter nonsense. Several of the right of centre newspapers and broadcasting media are stating that the EU forced the UK to change to metric for some purposes. No, that's just not true, the EU had no opinion on it. The UK took no action. It has always been a matter of choice for traders and customers to use whatever units of measurement they feel like and this has been the same for all units of measurement in the UK.

We have litres of petrol, pints of beer, pints of milk, distances in miles, some packaged foods in kilogrammes, some in pounds etc. Our UK pound is still a pound but it is metric, being divided into units of 100 pence rather than 240.

Imperial or metric it makes no difference to me. But for those matters that we now use metric I would keep it like that and for those matters that use imperial I would keep it like that. But we should be aware that only 3 countries use solely imperial measures, America, Liberia and Myanmar.

So although it makes no difference to me I believe that in order that UK folk can travel almost anywhere and be OK with weights, distances, volumes of liquid etc it makes sense that we at least understand a solely metric world.

But this Boris Johnson forthcoming announcement will be nonsense. In the UK there never has been any law that metric must be used and the EU has never given it a thought, though some media say that it has. This is a Boris Johnson wheeze scheduled for Friday, which rides on the Queen's Jubilee Celebrations and is supposed to be seen as this government freeing us from EU interfering with our UK age old rights. In this respect the EU certainly did not do so, our rights to use imperial / metric as we please have never been threatened.