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This is basically the claim of the BWMA. That people
are educated in metric but never use it in real life. They claim that the
metrication of the economy isolates the average citizen from the products he/she
buys. Rather then encouraging people to use what they have learned, they
would rather see people confused and blame it all on metrication.
I think they also realise that the more metric the economy
is the harder it is to maintain imperial references. If one sees no
imperial on products and then sees products with rounded metric amounts or
amounts that don't correspond to anything in imperial, then eventually the
consumer will lose the ability to function in imperial. Yes, they will
always remember the names, but the values behind the names will
fluctuate.
They hate the EU because the EU is the major force behind
metrication as far as laws are concerned that affect the consumer market.
They are upset that British industry is metric but realistically can't blame the
EU as the industry chose to go metric before EU entry. They try
though. In their last effort to keep imperial from being phased out, they
have taken to lawlessness. They advocate traders to disobey the law and
not to convert. They now have a terrorist wing called ARM (Active
Resistance to Metrication), who presently goes about the country side looking
for metric signs to spray out the metric and write in the imperial.
If the laws are ever amended to allow metric signs or
litres in pubs, you will see ARM doing more then just painting signs.
These are desperate people willing to perform criminal acts if that is what it
would take to halt metrication. And to make matters worse, they claim the
backing of the majority of the population.
Euric
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