Interesting! He makes a good point against Thorburn and Herron, saying
that their democratic rights had not been challenged, contrary to their
statements. He even claims to have seen no such dustup over the
conversion of the petrol pumps and therefore implies that their protest
is a tempest in a teapot. But then he lays the blame on the Sutherland
City Council for creating the problem by its "intransigence" by
insisting on adhering to the law!
Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've just found the following on the Sunderland Echo's Web site (from
> Dec 21):
>
> METRIC FIGHT A 'PETTY DISPUTE' 'PETTY DISPUTE'
>
> IS anyone else getting rather sick and tired of hearing about the
> so-called "metric martyrs" Steve Thorburn and Neil Herron?
>
> This "metric martyrs" farce is being portrayed as a fight against the
> dark forces of the EU trying to usurp British democracy and the very
> fabric of the British way of life, to which I must reply, for the want
> of a more fitting Anglo-Saxon expletive, codswallop!
> Restricting free movement from place to place challenges democracy, as
> does denying free speech and peaceful protest. Denying stallholders
> selling in imperial instead of metric most definitely does not.
> This is a petty little dispute that has escalated out of all
> proportion because of the intransigence of Sunderland City Council,
> who have stuck to the letter of the law and prosecuted instead of
> leaving it to the shopkeepers' discretion as other council's have. As
> a result, we have every anti-EU organisation coming out of the
> woodwork, jumping on this bandwagon and riding it for all it's worth.
> I don't remember anyone picketing petrol stations when the pumps
> changed from gallons to litres. Similarly, I don't recall anyone
> waving placards outside shops and supermarkets when products were sold
> in kilograms and millilitres rather than pounds or fluid ounces.
> Stephen Davis,
> Rye View,
> Ryhope,
> Sunderland.
>
> Chris
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