David Cameron Wishes Britain Would Abandon The Metric System

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David Cameron Wishes Britain Would Abandon The Metric System

TOMAS HIRST POLITICS SEP. 30, 2014, 4:37 PM

Over 40 years since Britain committed to the metric system as part of its membership of the European Economic Community (EEC) Prime Minister David Cameron has said he’d prefer the country to abandon it.

Asked by BBC Newsnight presenter Evan Davis whether children in schools should primarily be taught in grams or in pounds and ounces the Prime Minister replied :

I think I’d still go for pounds and ounces. Rather like we use miles and pints.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.sg/david-cameron-and-the-metric-system-2014-9/#.VCscBPmSx8E

-- Business Insider 2014-09-30

[NeverSure]

Yes, now if they would just learn to drive on the proper side of the road.

[bdenner]

He can't possibly be serious or has April 1st come early or has he gone off his meds?

[coma]

He must be as dumb as a rock. What a ludicrous statement. Metric blows imperial away on any surface. Backwards <deleted>.

[KarenBravo]

Yes, now if they would just learn to drive on the proper side of the road.

We do.

If you were riding a horse and met strangers going the other way, wouldn't you like to be able to use your sword arm, just-in-case?

If not, you will be following a certain short, French-speaking General's dictate.

[MAJIC]

David Cameron has a very short memory,he chooses to forget that his Conservative Party under the Leadership of PM Edward Heath, signed into Europe under the Banner of a Trading Nation called the "Common Market" anyone else remember this lying old Conservative?? who denied his hidden agenda was to create a federal Europe?? and Surrender our laws and Sovereignty to Europe. Strangely this Traitor appeared on British Television shortly before he died and admitted he lied to the British people,in his intentions of our entry into Europe! And our entry into Europe was agreed to adopt the Metric system.

It's derisable, countless millions of Engineers and key workers have changed from Imperial over to Metric,and the "Mr man" who almost lost us the UK Union with Scotland,now want's to turn the clock back! as they say in the Sun" You couldn't make this up!

http://www.brugesgroup.com/eu/britain-and-europe-the-culture-of-deceit.htm?xp=paper

[tw25rw]

Yes, now if they would just learn to drive on the proper side of the road.

Britain/England was the first country to settle on a side to drive on. It was you weird foreigners who corrupted the whole idea.

[tw25rw]

David Cameron has a very short memory,he chooses to forget that his Conservative Party under the Leadership of PM Edward Heath, signed into Europe under the Banner of a Trading Nation called the "Common Market" anyone else remember this lying old Conservative?? who denied his hidden agenda was to create a federal Europe?? and Surrender our laws and Sovereignty to Europe. Strangely this Traitor appeared on British Television shortly before he died and admitted he lied to the British people,in his intentions of our entry into Europe! And our entry into Europe was agreed to adopt the Metric system.

It's derisable, countless millions of Engineers and key workers have changed from Imperial over to Metric,and the "Mr man" who almost lost us the UK Union with Scotland,now want's to turn the clock back! as they say in the Sun" You couldn't make this up!

If he was a bit older, he'd be talking about the good old days of pounds , shillings and pence.

[daveAustin]

What Cameron should be saying is abolish the imperial system. Way past its sell by date.

Yes, now if they would just learn to drive on the proper side of the road.

Is 'they' the yanks? As we all know the driving on the left side of the road hails from the era of horses and knights etc, way before that part of the world was an itch in anyone's pants. It is likely you lot went against the grain just to stick two fingers up... like inventing a game of 'football' that no-one else plays or likes.

[MAJIC]

What Cameron should be saying is abolish the imperial system. Way past its sell by date.

Yes, now if they would just learn to drive on the proper side of the road.

Is 'they' the yanks? As we all know the driving on the left side of the road hails from the era of horses and knights etc, way before that part of the world was an itch in anyone's pants. It is likely you lot went against the grain just to stick two fingers up... like inventing a game of 'football' that no-one else plays or likes.

I don't know how long Dave Austin has been in Thailand: but Imperial has been abolished about 40 years ago except for America,and companies that wish to trade with them!

[MAJIC]

Cameron is so out of touch he doesn't know that 3 quarters of the workforce and people have never used Imperial! please God make the Election soon!

[MAJIC]

He can't possibly be serious or has April 1st come early or has he gone off his meds?

At first I thought this Topic was Satire,then it became obvious: plain stupidity!

[Goshawk]

Prime Minister David Cameron has said he’d prefer the country to abandon it . . . . . I think I’d still go for pounds and ounces. Rather like we use miles and pints

Fits perfectly in line with his other thinking . . . having the majority of folk working for turnips n' carrots & if they're really lucky, a couple of Groats as a Xmas bonus.

[MJP]

His mathematics master must have buggered him senseless.

[MAJIC]

His mathematics master must have buggered him senseless.

MJP! You have to make allowances mate,David Cameron was Maggie Thatchers official Financial Advisor! so don't expect too much on the Financial front!

[MAJIC]

I just had to come back before I go to bed. Our PM Cameron has my nomination for the most useless statement this side of the Asylum!

[MJP]

His mathematics master must have buggered him senseless.

MJP! You have to make allowances mate,David Cameron was Maggie Thatchers official Financial Advisor! so don't expect too much on the Financial front!

Like Brown having Balls in his mouth.

Oh I'm on fire tonight!

[KarenBravo]

Yes, now if they would just learn to drive on the proper side of the road.

We do.

If you were riding a horse and met strangers going the other way, wouldn't you like to be able to use your sword arm, just-in-case?

If not, you will be following a certain short, French-speaking General's dictate.

Actually I'd rather be on the right, because when I pulled my Glock with my right hand I could rest it on my left elbow, cross-body and make the idiot wish he had something other than a sword.

This is the true reason that most countries drive on the right (correct) side.

That's your best effort?

Your laughing emoticons fool no one.

1/10

[WitawatWatawit]

David who? Pounds and ounces?

[RickBradford]

No doubt his next idea would be to bring back pounds, shillings and pence. Just think what that would boost the economy.

Education would have to change too.

"If a gherkin costs 1s 3d 1/2 and a bag of popcorn costs 11d, and each illegal refugee needs 19 gherkins and 23 bags of popcorn to survive for a week, what is the annual cost to the UK of 200,000 refugees?"

[billd766]

He should be happy on this page then. Here we have the rod, pole perch measurements etc.

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/length.htm

Thailand is a bit odd as well.

The blue pipes you buy for water are 1/2, 3/4. 1 inch, 2, 3, 4 sizes.

Most nails and screws are sold in imperial sizes, People drive mostly on the left in Thaialand yet Thailand has never been colonised.

[KarenBravo]

Might as well go back to the cubit as a measure of length. Bring back the league at the same time.

[p_brownstone]

Clearly Britain is inching away from the Metric System.

Patrick

[Briggsy]

Cameron knows a huge percentage of British voters are over 60. This silly statement might win thousands of votes as it resonates with those who grew up before 1971.

[AyG]

If he was a bit older, he'd be talking about the good old days of pounds , shillings and pence.

Why not go back further: farthings, groats, silver thrupenny bits, crowns, halfpennies and guineas?

[JDGRUEN]

In the U.S. we never formally adopted and a good hybrid IMO has come about ... We use both. This way certain items that may make it to export market can be metric in order to be more generic. Items more likely to be domestic like milk still comes in quarts and gallons... while soft drinks which can be exported to neighbors is metric - liters... We use cubic feet to measure home interiors and such things as carpet size and flooring in general. There are plenty of exceptions ... Plus most items are labeled in metric and the English system... i.e. liquids often show ml/liter - ounces, etc. It works well enough...

[elliss]

Clearly Britain is inching away from the Metric System.

Patrick

In preparation for our new Muslim regime .

Politicians have coats of many colours .

Alah be praised .

[Chicog]

David Cameron has a very short memory,he chooses to forget that his Conservative Party under the Leadership of PM Edward Heath, signed into Europe under the Banner of a Trading Nation called the "Common Market" anyone else remember this lying old Conservative?? who denied his hidden agenda was to create a federal Europe?? and Surrender our laws and Sovereignty to Europe. Strangely this Traitor appeared on British Television shortly before he died and admitted he lied to the British people,in his intentions of our entry into Europe! And our entry into Europe was agreed to adopt the Metric system.

It's derisable, countless millions of Engineers and key workers have changed from Imperial over to Metric,and the "Mr man" who almost lost us the UK Union with Scotland,now want's to turn the clock back! as they say in the Sun" You couldn't make this up!

If he was a bit older, he'd be talking about the good old days of pounds , shillings and pence.

20 groats says he wouldn't.

[Chicog]

If he was a bit older, he'd be talking about the good old days of pounds , shillings and pence.

Why not go back further: farthings, groats, silver thrupenny bits, crowns, halfpennies and guineas?

A bag of salt?

[JockPieandBeans]

Someone with a 1lb of mince instead of a brain ?