A Last Minute Reprieve for Pounds and Ounces

"It is sobering to think that, but for a ruling by our masters in Brussels on Tuesday, it would have been illegal from 2010 to display the weights of goods for sale in pounds and ounces.

Thanks to a determination by successive governments - the last Tory one was just as bad as the present incumbent - to accept every directive sent from the EU without so much as a whimper, our traditional system of measurements was about to be consigned to the dustbin. Now, and no thanks to our supposed rulers, that won't happen.

It never ceases to amaze me how governments wilfully ignore strong feelings by the public about such matters. Ever since the prospect was first raised, there has been visceral opposition in this country to metrication...

full article: Daily Telegraph