Tony
Bennett
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| Questionnaire |
August 3
2004, 1:01 PM |
re: UKMA Questionnaire
Would you like to
see Britain get out of the measurement unit mess?
YES, by
allowing the market to revert to Imperial
use
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Would
you like to see your children be able to use the units they are
taught in school?
NO. I'd like them to learn both sets of
units
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Would
you like price transparency through consistently labelled
quantities?
Er, I can think of some other priorities ahead
of
that
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Would
you like to see Britain be internationally competitive by using the
international system of units?
Hardly, since over in France,
Germany and Holland, where they already have S.I. units (and
something called the euro), they have unemployment at up to 10%,
growth is non-existent, and inward investment way behind
Britain's
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Would
you like a safer Britain using one single set of units?
On
the roads, yes - Imperial - like 99.9% of the signs are already. I
wouldn't want any more Adam Doggetts of this world to he stuck under
any more bridges signed illegally in metric units - nor lorries
banging into an overhang because the height's been wrongly converted
to
metric
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Would
you like to see the end of the ban on metric units on our roads,
footpaths and pubs?
NO. I'd like to see the end of the ban
on selling loose goods in pounds and a posthumous Royal Pardon for
the late Steve Thoburn
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NO. I'd like them to learn both sets of units
A comment on this answer:
Learning both systems is a BWMA trick. What they
hope is that people who are taught both systems will continue to chose to use
FFU and forget metric. They constantly make claims about people who ran
into trouble with metric by not knowing it despite it being taught in the
schools. Because once out of school, they use only imperial. I
find that hard to believe, especially if one works in a metric industry and
shops in a market where only metric products exist..
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