Change the rules by all means but respect thmm while they are there. I totally agree that metric is the way forward but I still default to imperial for many things – I’ll miss miles when they go, but not too much.
I have a strange love of imperial units and not just at lunch when I discuss things with my German, Dutch and Italian friends and delight in confusing and winding them up a little bit- they are part of the country I grew up in, a little part of all British people.
Metric measurements started to make more sense as soon as the pocket calculator got invented, but I don’t want to see them implemented ( and certainly not by the back door as in this case ). I have my satnav set to Kilometres in Europe and Miles in the UK – given the mess that we have regarding official measurements in the UK I don’t think that people have too much trouble converting between the 2 systems when they need to.
Even those that voted for Brexit.
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