If you want to see a typical example of disinformation, go to this link on the Metric Vieuw site from UKMA: http://www.metricviews.org.uk/2008/07/21/acre-not-abolished/#comments
Read it and then click the links to the two British papers there as well. A link to The times is somewhere among the reactions: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4374679.ece It is about the acre for which a derogation for land registration in the UK has been withdrawn by the EU recently. Land registration in Britain has been done in hectares for years. The xenophobic and anti-metric British right wing media have spun stories that the acre will be banned in the UK, which is a downright lie. What a good occasion to bash the EU and the metric system once again. The Times, supposedly one of the best newspapers in the world, stoops to tabloid lies and disinformation. The Times article begins with this: >From The Times July 22, 2008 Brussels, stay off our little patch of land Acres form the template of our countryside Alice Thomson So Christopher Robin, Piglet and Winnie-the-Pooh are being evicted from the Hundred Acre Wood. From now on, it is to be known as the 40.45 Hectare Forest.
