Just received these thoughts from a woman I know who lives outside of London. Tells the tale all too tellingly, I think ...
Ezra =================================================== You're right about the Metrication issue. Anybody of my age or younger (I will be 41 next month) has been taught the Metric system since the age of 5. On leaving school we have to discover the mysteries - and learn- the Imperial system! Do you realise how mad it actually is here? Take the industry I work in. I calculate fuel volume in litres, speed in miles per hour but distances in kilometers. The price of fuel is pence per litre but consumption is calculated in miles per gallon! Last year I would work daily with prices offuel in 6 or 7 major European currencies and have to convert the comparisonsin Sterling. As I work for a German company, all internal information, figures etc is/was in German and the Deutsch Mark. Of course, since the launch of the Euro, it has been wonderful. I can now work solely in one currency. Prices do not deed to be converted. In fact, my UK customers now work soley in Euros and the majority of them have opened Euro bank accounts and pay their invoices in Euros. How does our government think it can survive by remaining outside of Euroland? Everything we do as a country is dictated by the Euro.
