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Government shows some brexit commonsense

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From: the.happy.hippy.nntp@ntlworld.invalid (The Happy Hippy)
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Subject: Government shows some brexit commonsense
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:53:13 +0000
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by: The Happy Hippy - Wed, 27 Dec 2023 08:53 UTC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67795075

The government has confirmed it is not planning to change the rules on selling in imperial measures after Brexit.

Boris Johnson ... The then-prime minister pledged to change the rules ahead of the 2019 election, calling imperial measurements an "ancient liberty" and adding he saw "no reason why people should be prosecuted" for using them.

But the government has now said it will not change the rules, after 98.7% of respondents to a consultation favoured using metric as the main measurement unit for sales, as now, or as the only unit.

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That won't please hardcore brextremists who want us to only use archaic and incomprehensible weights and measures which almost no one in Britain understands.

I am surprised it's even 1.3% who want to buy their net curtains by the furlong, timber by the cubit, and anti-freeze by the bushel.

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Government shows some brexit commonsense	The Happy Hippy