Metrication, the EU and treason

Jack Lewis, of the anti-rule-by-EU “We Want Our Country Back” group, argues that the UK’s switch to metric measurements was unconstitutional and therefore another example of sedition by British politicians. He also argues that the Imperial system has certain technical advantages over decimal measures:

Teaching children the Imperial System of Weights and
Measures had a bonus in that it taught them how to mentally calculate using
different numerical bases, e.g. when adding columns of money in the old ‘£, s d’
system. Children soon learnt that two halfpennies made a penny, 12 pennies made
a shilling and 20 shillings made a £. The divisibility of the old shilling and
pound were an advantage when people were paid in pence per day – only the high
inflation of the 20th century has rendered this fairly irrelevant. It was even
more interesting using Imperial Weights! 16 ounces (oz) make a pound (lb),
14lbs made a stone (st), 2 st (28lb) made a quarter (qtr), 4 qtrs (112lbs) made
a hundredweight (cwt) and 20cwt (2240lbs) made a ton (t). Similarly this
applied to the 2 pints (pts) = 1 quart (qrt), 4 qrts = 1 gallon (gal). Primary
children brought up using the Imperial System could probably out-calculate any
modern-day child or student. There were no electronic calculators in those days
and calculations had to be done mentally or on paper!

The Imperial System has been used successfully for
centuries – if something is not broken then there’s no need to fix it!  By
comparison, the metric system is workable only in multiples of
10. Prior to electronic calculators, it would have been very difficult to
do metric calculations. Dividing a metre by anything other than 2 (50cm) and 4
(25cm) created decimal points. The Imperial System can be used without the need
for a calculator.

The established non-use of the Metric System in the UK (legalised
in 1897) remained until we were illegally taken into the EEC when metrication
was imposed on the people by the Government. However the EU have since back-tracked
and said that we could still use the Imperial System. Unfortunately Public
Authorities still retain the power to prosecute anyone using the Imperial
System e.g. selling bananas by the lb and not by the kilo. This is a paradox
that must be dealt with as Public Authorities are not a power unto themselves
or above the law.

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