----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2001-04-03 17:59 Subject: [ukma] Interesting post on UKIP Forum I've just checked the UKIP 'Guard the Yard' Forum, and was heartened to see the following post, from Peter Phillips: "I have just logged on to this web site to find out more about the UK Independence Party. Disillusioned with the three main political parties and the increasingly undemocratic nature of the European Union, as well as the large financial contributions make to it, I have been considering voting for the UKIP. But I am disheartened to see the Guard the Yard campaign. It seems so parochial and petty. I don't believe in blindly opposing everything European. The metric system is far more sensible and easier to use than imperial units, and am thankful that it has largely been introduced in Britain, but I have never understand the logic of not extending it to road signs and beer. With increasing trade with the Continent, and the consequent commercial and leisure road travel across the Channel, it is common sense, and safer, for our road distances to be metric - along with the rest of Europe. As it happens, I wouldn't have any objections to changing to driving on the right either, for the same reason. Even if we do extricate ourselves from the Union, trade will hopefully still continue to increase with the rest of Europe; I believe that is UKIP policy after all. I think this campaign undermines the credibility of the party to potential supporters, like me, and is a distraction from the much more fundamental and important issues that need to be addressed."
