Hurray, Another petty EU law bites the dust.

[Modisrapid]

I do love when the EU is shown up for the petty faceless dictatorship that it is!.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6637587.stm

[Seos]

You imperialistic dastard!! Supporting the imperial system!

[Catalpa]

Metric Martyrs campaign director, Neil Herron a former fishmonger, said it was a "monumental victory" for the group and all its supporters

"It was just imposed on people with threats of criminal sanctions," he said. "It was never, ever put in a political manifesto and never, ever gained the consent of the British public."

Yet we are told by our politicians we 'must' do this and we 'must' do that if the Euro Commission says so...

Shows what bunch of jellyfish our lot are when it comes to standing up to the EC.

They can be stood up to - if the willpower is there!

[Europa]

1.The UK decided to adopt the metric system in the late 1960s, before they joined the EEC. Having accepted it they should really apply it, or do you Modisrapid believe in clinging on to quaint old ways for no real reason.


2. Surely if the EU was a "faceless dictatorship" this amendment would not have been approved?



2.Using the metric system is modern and sensible if only for safety reasons if nothing else. Look at the fiasco of the American mars mission that crashed due to converting between imperial and metric for example.



3."Mr Chichester said following lobbying by the Tories, the commissioner agreed it was good for British and European industry to keep imperial measurements as it would make it easier for firms to sell to the US, where such measures are used"

I'm sorry to disappoint you Modisrapid but the US use different pints, gallons, fluid ounces, hundredweights and tons from those in the Imperial system.


Rather than "faceless dictatorship" the EU brings sensible and necessary trade harmonisation.
Standards of measure enable trade to function and us all to know what we are getting when we buy. Metric is the only sensible way.Your presumable preference for imperial imposition of outdated measurements rather then enlightened Europeanism is misguided and ill-thought out.

[The Earl of Desmond]

It hasn't been dropped actually because the Council of Ministers and Parliament can still decide to go ahead with it.

I wonder how many of the little Englanders who are so supportive of the Imperial system realise it has nothing to do with The British Empire and is in fact from The Roman Empire.

[Riadach]

And was standardised under that great Frenchman, Charlemagne.

[The Earl of Desmond]

then Napoleon came along with his metric system which was needed for the industrial age.

[chiffon rouge]

I do love when the EU is shown up for the petty faceless dictatorship that it is!.

Surely ther are mure important thngs to get worked up about

[The Earl of Desmond]

Not if you are in UKIP - I might write and ask them the origins of the imperial system and see if they know and realise they are defending a great Italian creation! lol

[Defeated Romanticist]

Darn,
If this metric dictat goes by the way-side I shall have one less weapon to attack the EU.
Oh well plenty more where they came from.