So in the interest of clarity, do you condemn or support the actions
of Mr Thorburne in trying to deny this choice to this customers ?
So long as he offered the right for someone to ask for and get a kilo of
whatever I'm happy.
What I'm slightly uncomfortable with is talking about someone who died not
long ago.
If you enact a law making something compulsory, you have to enforce it
(this
is something that I have to admit the UK is better at than we are).
I think the argument is on enforcing the change not the measures themselves.
The
BWMA are all gung ho to enforce the law on imperial road signs. And they
are actually right - if that's what the law says then you can't have
local authorities and/or traders ignoring it. Are you really advocating
allowing people to pick and choose which laws they obey ?
I'm more on the freedom to choose side than the semantics on legal wording.
So long as there is no risk of danger I think the choice should be the
broadest.
They would be within the law, and couldn't be used to provoke a
prosecution.
As for the "banning brigade", let me point out once more that the trade
laws
do not ban the use of imperial.
I still find it daft that you have this spectacle of people asking for a lb
of something and a shopkeeper weighing out on scales that say 454g, where
yesterday the same csutomer asked for a lb and it got weighed out as a lb.
The only bans are on the use of metric
on road signs by the Road Traffic Act, and the ban on metric usage in
certain shops by the so-called "metric martyrs".
I think that may be more of a tabloid view than anything else - pop in to
Asda to see what is really happeoing
