You are an exceptional case in that,
I am not so sure of that - I simply see no groundswell of people claiming
that "The state of weights and measures in the UK are a mess" or "I've lost
20lb on the GI diet but I find it irritating that I cannot choose
kilogrammes, despite them being freely available to me."
as you have clearly demonstrated, you are firmly against the idea of change
to metric
When have I said that?
In certain areas metric is obviously better than imperial. Science is one
area - and this extends to medicine (something that the (wo)man in the
street uses). I would be totally against the removal of metric pricing and
scales in UK shops - why reduce information? The more the better.
I am not anti-metric. But I am not anti-imperial either.
and will never be pursuaded otherwise no matter how well reasoned the
argument.
I could easily fire that one back citing freedom of choice, but then you'll
respond with "the problem with choice is...."
We don't expect to literally pursuade every individual citizen in the UK
but a general sea change may be possible.
Without state enforcment I see it taking longer than the 40-odd years that
its taken to get nearly no-where so far.
Without going into detail I can assure you the true figure is lilkely to be
less than �100 million
Like the pro-imp side, your quote there is purely guesstimate based upon
your own feelings.
Remember that anti-war protest last year?
just under a million, or two million people attended - depending on what
side of the fence you listened to.
if opponents are so confident of their case against it why exaggerate the
cost.
That is a case of pre-supposing they are exaggerating the cost.
I'm not going to put my hand up and make my prediction as I don't know where
to start.
But put it this way - replacing that M25 variable limit system on its own
witll cost more than what's it my wallet ;-)
People are being misled by this kind of disinformation and I find it
hypocritical that those who peddle it often pretend the state is some evil
tyrant.
I'm confident that if you ask the casual passer by if they knew whether they
were costing up changing signs to metric or, indeed, the idea of changing
the signs they will plead ignorance.
No one is claiming the project to be self financing but there are potential
benefits in making the change which have never been put before the British
public.
Apart from "completing the process", what would this be?
There is no evidence that safety will be put at risk - the Irish
change-over a few months ago has not produced a sudden increase traffic
accidents,
Irelands statistics aren't very good.
And you are talking aabout a few million versus scores of millions of
people.
And I believe they addresses some speed limit issues whilst converting.
nor so far as I can tell has this kind of change been fatal in America
where, in some cases they changed over and back again..
I can't comment on that one.
Not all groups campaigning for change resort to tabloid press style
tactics.
This can be said of either side.
Try not to sanitize the situation though - that's just as bad as tabloid.
Tell it how it is.
From my observations prometric groups are the least offenders in that
respect largely because they don't need to do it.
They have the state and the superstate on their side.
