Britannist

'Park bench purge due to health and safety regulations':

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

arden forester

What old person is going to sit in a cemetary at midnight? Maybe the poor folk of the New Labour pensions fiasco waiting their turn for the grim reaper?

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NickIrons

Why was it measured in inches?
Surley there must be a bye law forbidding
the use of Imperial measurements in that fashion,
or does the Taliban Metrication Enforcement Agency
only apply to street traders.

TonyG

You been on holiday? The EU have graciously allowed us to keep imperial measurements indefinitely!
Or at least until the BBC pressures them into changing their minds... :roll:

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Britannist

I think the EU has only allowed a temporary compromise on this because europhiles over here have told them that the proposed 2010 ban on Imperial measurements being displayed (now deferred) would have become a big issue at the 2009 EU Election - and possibly in a 2009 UK General Election.

Opposition to a ban on Imperial measurements would have boosted the UKIP vote in both of those elections and that is the last thing the europhiles would want, of course.

Prepare for the EU to announce after the 2009 EU Election (and after the next UK General Election) a new date for the banning of the display of Imperial measurements in the UK.

TonyG

2010 it is then!

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Britannist

If not 2010, soon after :x :evil: . The EU already has a new 'secret' target date (in my view) to destroy our ancient Imperial Measurements system .

TonyG

You been sucking on the 'Conspiracy teat' again Brit? Life can be tough if you don't let go once in a while.

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Britannist

It could well be a conspiracy that you think I may regard the above matter you refer to as a conspiracy. :wink: :shock:

NickIrons

No, but been living in Switz for the last 8 or so years,
trained as a Toolmaker, so I know both systems, hate
the way it's bieng forced on us, but I must admit, for
linear measurments anyway, the Metric system is far better.
Just don't like being told what to use by an over paid desk
swotting blotter jotter from Brussels.

Thanks to Richard Curtis and Ben Elton for the quote in
italics Lol