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Promising a future that looks like Britain's mythical and glorious past, British PM Boris Johnson intends to restore Imperial measures to Britain's shops. Is anyone surprised at this? Stories in the Daily Express, <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F1214350%2Fboris-johnson-brexit-pound-ounces-measurements-rule-eu-law-election-pledge&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C78447d86e04944f8335a08d77b52fc58%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637113468701994982&sdata=8MG46RMWwjB%2BpmV87KLMN8VkJ4foQub9iwKpExAAZ3w%3D&reserved=0> Daily Mail <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-7765629%2FBoris-Johnson-warns-Britain-risks-sleepwalking-coalition-led-Jeremy-Corbyn.html&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C78447d86e04944f8335a08d77b52fc58%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637113468701994982&sdata=0Daf9ppG2REIotRkyC4mIVJIyJDUetlNuyu0q3ongCw%3D&reserved=0> and the Sun. <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesun.co.uk%2Fnews%2F10502389%2Fboris-johnson-vows-to-bring-back-pounds-and-ounces-once-britain-finally-leaves-the-eu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C78447d86e04944f8335a08d77b52fc58%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637113468701994982&sdata=%2BVNjGthg8vz5DfusZIPvh9%2FNvs4gMh8E0j%2Bj5i5QGpI%3D&reserved=0> I'm still waiting to see a reaction from the UK Metric Association. Anybody who is completely uneducated in the metric system has to be in their late 60s, and to have completely ignored and forgotten any information they have seen about the metric system in the past 50 years. >From the Daily Mail: Boris Johnson has revealed plans to bring back pounds and ounces once Brexit is done as he attacks Jeremy Corbyn as 'the most extreme Left-wing candidate produced by the Labour Party in a century' entering Number 10. In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily Mail, the Prime Minister laid out his post-election blueprint to lift the EU ban on imperial measurements and hark back to the old system. He said: 'We will bring back that ancient liberty. I see no reason why people should be prosecuted.' The Conservative leader added: 'I think the reality is a lot of people are now educated in the metric system, we have to recognise that. 'But people… I understand what a pound of apples is. I also understand what a kilo of apples is. 'There will be an era of generosity and tolerance towards traditional measurements.' The British Prime Minister is ten years younger than me and was surely educated in the metric system in the UK. Can't he see the amount of confusion and fraud this change is likely to cause? Best wishes, Peter, Mobile: 0411 646 396 e-mail: [email protected]
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