From Reddit:
There's been a couple articles (well, headlines) posted about the UK
moving away from metric, and while yeah that seems to be true (and I'm not
too happy about it), it's only subtly.
The actual proposal is to repeal EU rules that meant that all products
must be sold in metric, allowing people to sell in imperial units if they
choose. This is mostly about market stalls and stuff, some of which might
want to (and yeah, it's a silly nationalist flag-waving thing), but there
is no way that any larger retailers, supermarkets, chain shops or anything
of the sort would stop using metric.
I mean I have no idea how pounds, ounces, gallons etc. work, and apart
from the few things we still do use here (like feet and inches for height,
miles for road signs and speed), everyone under 30 uses the metric system.
Do I think this is a stupid step backwards only designed to appeal to a
subset of older patriotic Brits? Yep, absolutely, and it's an utter waste
of time policy. Are we leaving the metric system and returning to the
imperial one? Nope, that'd be ludicrous, it's not happening.
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