It was recently announced that the eurocrats in Brussels have abandoned their desire to turn Britain into a 100% metric country. This means that we won't now have to give up our traditional imperial measurements such as pints and miles. The EU commission had kept extending the deadline for the UK to complete the full transition to the metric system, first mooted in 1965, with the most recent deadline being 2010. Thank goodness common sense has prevailed. It would have cost a fortune to update every one of the UK's road signs, as well as replace all those pint-sized glasses in pubs. Personally, I'm happy to use the metric system - but I am also happy if we can continue to buy a pound of apples and a pint of milk in the shops and a pint of beer at the pub.
Saturday, 29 September 2007
Pint-sized Britain
It was recently announced that the eurocrats in Brussels have abandoned their desire to turn Britain into a 100% metric country. This means that we won't now have to give up our traditional imperial measurements such as pints and miles. The EU commission had kept extending the deadline for the UK to complete the full transition to the metric system, first mooted in 1965, with the most recent deadline being 2010. Thank goodness common sense has prevailed. It would have cost a fortune to update every one of the UK's road signs, as well as replace all those pint-sized glasses in pubs. Personally, I'm happy to use the metric system - but I am also happy if we can continue to buy a pound of apples and a pint of milk in the shops and a pint of beer at the pub.
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