Consultation Doc on Weights and Measures

Yup, although it's still "early days" no doubt (decades of consequences) I'm pleased to see some major benefits of this change filtering through already:

• You will no longer be arrested for ordering a "pint".
• You'll be able to have a different colour passport.
• You'll be soon able to benefit from freer trade with Vietnam (of note for cyclists).
• Nigel Farage has become irrelevant.

What the change will do is allow any government to trot out such "victories" fairly regularly over the next decade or so, and say "we told you so" when the EU makes some gaffe / the latest round of corruption and waste is exposed there.

chrisonatrike wrote:

What the change will do is allow any government to trot out such "victories" fairly regularly over the next decade or so, and say "we told you so" when the EU makes some gaffe / the latest round of corruption and waste is exposed there.

I must say I am very relieved to be able to quantify the produce left in the fields to rot (because British workers are too lazy / not poor enough to want jobs harvesting it) in cwt or bushels rather than pesky horrid French kilogrammes.

Awavey wrote:

the government just needed to quietly remove the legal bar on selling loose food in metric measures, and let the market decide what it wants to do, I suspect it would carry on as it is now comfortably trading in metric and imperial.

Pretty sure there is no such bar. If there is, every shop I know that sells loose food, from Tesco to single-store one-man bands, is getting away with blatantly breaking it.