Post brexit should Britain go back to Imperial units?

buffaloboro

buffaloboro

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One for the brexit voters- now we are less than one month away from "freedom" do you think the UK is not going the whole hog by continued use of the French system?
We need full control... Say no to litres
 
Good point, the pro remain view could be that if we used litres they would still be flowing like a French farm's EU grant
 
Speaking as one who took the very last O level in Physics in imperial I can categorically say it was a f^ckin nightmare, especially as we had to do metric as well (in the same papers).

Air travel is still an exotic mix of the two systems, though, height in feet, speed in knots, everything else metric Just as well it seems to work :)
 
Of course, in reality the EU allows Imperial units (we still have pints of beer and milk), fairly exclusively for the UK as other EU countries prefer metric.

However, now we haven't got any influence in the EU they may drop the allowance for joint measurements and insist on any product going into the EU be measured in metric only. Would UK producers who still export want to have one set of packaging for domestic and one for EU? An unnecessary cost I think.

Therefore an unintended consequence may be the disappearance of Imperial measurement of produce altogether from the UK.
 
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