Hurrah! The return of Imperial Units!

[noblegiraffe]

The government has announced a taxpayer-funded study to quantify the economic benefits of a return to imperial units - a definite Brexit benefit.

I'm struggling to think of any. Journeys are all in miles. You can still buy a pint. No one has arrested me for my standard cake recipe of 8,8,8,4. What are the good old imperial units I'm forgetting that are currently verboten and what economic benefit will they bring? Are people desperate to buy a pound of apples but holding off while they're in kg?

"Paul Scully, a Tory business minister, said reintroducing imperial labelling would be “an important step in taking back control” and that a planned “assessment of the economic impact on business will be carried out in due course”."

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-imperial-measurements-economic-benefit-study-b2021304.html

Wow! They're harsh! Do you think hanging would be less paper work than permanent exclusion? 🤣

What a load of bollocks.

This sort of shit just makes me want to campaign for a hard rejoin. Into the Euro, hard ban on imperial measurements, all roads switched to km etc.

we’re an international joke.

What a load of shite. Metric system makes so much more sense to anyone under 35. We would be mad to go backwards like this when the rest of the world uses metric

35?

more like anyone under 55.

I work in construction. I work to a 3mm tolerance. What even is that in inches? Micro inches?

No idea. Not going to happen.

A labour MP was talking about 'weaponising nostalgia'. I'm properly old, btw, and think it's a crap idea.

This is a dead cat, designed to distract us from what the government is really up to. Just ignore it. It’s all bollox - up there with that time Johnson started yapping about building a bridge across the Irish Sea and talking gibberish about painting buses on champagne boxes. Strewth, don’t be taking in by this shite.