MAGGIE WINS AGAIN:

EU shelves ban on imperial measures (Press Association, May 9, 2007)

Campaigners fighting EU plans to abolish imperial measures have claimed a victory for pounds and ounces.

A deadline of 2009 had been set for metric measures to finally replace Britain's traditional imperial measures but that has now been shelved following a change of heart at the European Commission.

Both the Conservative Party and the Metric Martyrs campaign group say they have won the battle to keep Britain imperial.

Resistance to the standardization of the metric system is a perfect symbol of Anglospheric anti-intellectualism/anti-Rationalism.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 9, 2007 8:02 PM