In 2001, the rules became the focus of debate in the UK following the prosecution of the "metric martyrs" - a group of market traders convicted of selling goods using only imperial measures - although have not been rigorously enforced since.
In a statement, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds MP, said: "Small businesses can measure the difference a Labour government would make in pounds and pence with our plan to cut taxes for pubs, cafes, and shops. Ahead of the Jubilee, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also released a statement paying tribute to the Queen and her 70 years of service.
"Providing leadership and wisdom, this remarkable woman has dedicated her life to serving her people and to her beloved Commonwealth."
Born in 1969, I'm metric all the way! GOVUK this review is a complete and utter waste of public money; we don't have loads of money to spare right now. The UK clinging onto the old imperial measurements is pathetic. Metric makes perfect sense, some of it even started here!
The computers are going to love it, 8 shillings of RAM, 500 Guineas of hard drive and broadband speeds of up to 1000 pounds 🙄
Firkin hogshead this is boring stop who cares. Get some LSD it keeps you calm!
Might I suggest you try an old Finnish measurement, 'poronkusema', or the distance a reindeer can pull a sled withouth having to wee? About as arbitrary as miles and furlongs and hogsheads.
Shillings and Tuppence next.
There is one imperial measurement l would love to see, Boris Johnson 6FEET UNDER. ASAP.
Pathetic ridiculous waste of money 😡
Yippee!
Don’t stain he jubilee with this bollocks
Wow it seems the only thing Brexiteers can claim Brexit as given us is Blue Passports and imperial measurements which had been still in use if anybody had looked at road signs or ordered a pint at the pub
Has he said this to distract us from his huredous chages to Ministerial rules. Always gaslighting 🤔
If the older population remember how difficult the adjustment was, why do they want to inflict the same experience on their grandchildren?
Because that is the main problem the country faces at the moment. Sunlit uplands here we come
Maybe we could introduce the penny farthing, and bring back the horse & cart.
BorisJohnsonOut
Foot, arse and Boris. Best use of I imperial measure!
How much is that..........wuppeny wuppence apenny....🥴
Back to the past where those of us of a certain age can wallow in the sentimental nostalgia of reverting to IMPERIAL measurement (doesn't that sound grand?)...and the rest of the world can buer off please
So a 2gm a day coke habit will now be 0.07054793oz?
How disappointing, surely to turn the clock back even further we should use groats, bushels, chains and furlongs, not to mention sovereigns as our currency.
Nothing says Brexit quite like a measuring system of Roman and Germanic origin. 🤦🏻♂️
Oh dear hopeless idea, I was educated at a local school in metric from the age of 8 more than 50 years ago, whatever has happened since?
What is the point of this? I'd ask if people are really this stupid, but quite frankly, so many have proved that they are in their continuing support of the current government, that the answer is obvious.
Looking forward to this too.. Witch trials were frequent in England first half of 17th-century Reached their most intense phase during English civil war of 1640s and Puritan era of 1650s. This was a period of intense witch hunts, known for witch hunters such as Matthew Hopkins.
Why we are at it can we also have our straight bananas back Boris?
BorisJohnson distraction technique and you fell for it...
Lets start speaking Latin too
What a joke! And don’t blame the oldies. I’m 66 and metric is universal. Tories dragging us backwards. So much for global Britain ToryBritain
Really no need for this.
Just think. Another opportunity for companies to reduce the weight of items whilst charging the same or more. That’s what happened when we moved from pounds, shillings and pence to the decimal system.
No thanks
More theme-park nostalgia for retired people. But what does the government have to offer the 77.5% of the population that is under 60?
WHY?
It seems the alleged great promise and excitement of Brexit has degenerated into queuing for a pound of scrag end hoping the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will fly overhead. It's all rather sad and embarrassing. ImperialMeasurements BrexitDisaster
What a stupid waste of money!
I'm nearly 60, I went to school in the 60/70s where I was taught imperial for a few years before switching to the 'new' metric from 72ish onward. No one under 55 will have been through our education system pre-decimalisation. A typically gammonesque Johnson policy.
That's an incredibly stupid waste of time and money. I don't understand why, other than force of habit, anyone would prefer Imperial. We count in base ten. Why would anyone choose to use non-base ten units?
Embarrassing
Good idea! Many people still measure in pounds/stones and walk ‘miles’ even though BBC insist on using km in all broadcasts. Interview with a gritter lorry driver one bad winter: BBC - How many km have you driven tonight? Driver - 65 miles!🙂
Fuel efficiency is measured in miles per gallon, but priced in pence per litre. Consequently those numbers mean nothing. Imperial measurements are nothing but a pair of rose tinted spectacles, enabling the wearer to reminisce on a time before 'those foreigners ruined everything'
Fooling noone... Another bullshit bluster from a government that is fastracking the country into oblivion... Who will bear the cost of this return to the 'empire' that does not exist. Documentation, Machinery calibration
For Scotland, England and Wales. The Unionists in Northern Ireland will go Tonto. I think the government wants to dump Northern Ireland all together. The end of the Union isn’t far away.
Tories are so desperate. And their supporters lap up this nonsense.
Thin Brexit benefit gruel (or, if you prefer, thin granola) 🙄
What on earth for? So he can say he got Brexit done? 🤦♀️
… and the Commonwealth becomes the Empire again
The Middle Ages provided the background for development of the British Imperial System. Back to the Future by the Tory Party. I think not!
Is this just to satisfy those people in their 60s or above?
A florin for a tankard of milk? Good grief.
Ridiculous! But beautifully symbolic of an increasingly isolationist small nation stuck in the past!
Try buying a vehicle tyre without using both!
This country really has lost its mind
This was announced months ago! It just means it won’t be illegal to use imperial, MSM trying to create something out of nothing as usual
Will they revise the foot size by re measuring the monarchs foot or, of course, bring back the Guinea. Simply turn the whole country into an open air museum for foreign tourists. Parliament can stay as it is, it already represents the 19th century.
A Maths teacher in the family. Dying to get their take on this.
Hilarious.
We’ve only been metric since 1969 give it a chance .
That's how stupid they think the British public are. After all the lies, the let downs, the disaster that is brexit. They think you'll be happy asking for a pound of mince again like in the old days. Surely even the flag shaggers won't fall for this ? Surely ?
Does he realise the inconvenience or cost of this? When did they stop teaching imperial measures in schools? 🙄
Always stuck with imperial and never used metric anyway
……plans to send small children up chimneys to be announced soon! 🙄I hope her majesty comes out with “not in my name “ as this stupid money wasting rubbish.
Must have missed that promise on the brexit bus
Well this is backwards 🤦♂️
We really are going backwards. The cost would be massive too. The cost of a review then companies changing packaging. Silly idea
Dear Rest of The World, please remember that Scotland is only part of the UK because we are being held against our will by a dictatorship in England. Please feel free to use the term English when referring to the latest move by the lunatic Johnson 🏴🇪🇺
Stupid nonsense as usual from a Conservative government trying to mask the disaster of Brexit. We’re an international laughing stock already and this makes it even worse. Local butcher still sells in lbs and oz. I can buy a pint of milk or beer.
Leave things as they are. Waste of energy and time.
Another misleading sound bite of misdirection to keep the voting public occupied whilst the Tories dismantle British institutions such as the NHS, BBC & governance with checks and balances. A meaningless and ludicrous idea that would lead to more complete confusion post Brexit.
How much will they spend on this torytired
I like metric because I’m not still living in a cave.
This is a propaganda ploy by a corrupt and incompetent government to divert voters away from the realities of bad Tory rule. By playing into the desires of a small minority of BREXIT ideologists. People in poverty suffer in either system.
Would the inflation and poor economic state measure differently in the imperial system? Let’s go back to 1822 in all aspects of life.. hooray ..
I’d much rather know I can’t afford 10 gallons of diesel rather than 45.461 litres!
Utter waste of time, money and effort. ‘We’re getting on with the important things’ -really. Is this what JRM got from his ‘let me have your ideas on benefits of Brexit’ campaign 🤬
ToryLiars
Absolute bollocks. He's pandering to old white people because they are all he has left. A review costs money doesn't it? The man has the fiscal ability of a dog turd
agreed and keep Boris in power which most of us do not want whatever the measurements
Why are the BBC so keen to cover this trivial, half witted idea yet ignore the misdemeanours of this corrupt government.
I think Boris must have been doing quarters teenths and eights of something to come up twith this shit PrivateEyeNews
This is the dumbest most pointless shit ever. Once more, it’s a big middle finger to the young generations who don’t know imperial, while a big thumbs up to the older fuckers who want to “go back to the old ways”.
To be honest we have never fully embraced metric...we still have miles, feet and inches, gallons etc. Not sure it needs reviewing though, just allow people to choose . I still use pounds and ounces when cooking...
It’s a tactic to try and distract people from the other big stories
Totally pointless. Imperial measurements can be used now as an additional reference. Complete waste of energy and money. While playing to the older generation they forget everyone under 40-45 will never really have been exposed to non metric ways of working.
What's the imperial unit of distraction-tactics?
This is such a negative step. Why is government so intent on recreating the past & winning mute favour with older voters, when it should be prioritising our future. Why are they are isolating us with small-minded thinking? It’s so embarrassing. We are not an empire. I vote NO 🤷🏻♀️
Johnson should kick it off by visiting Scotland Yard.
FFS! Desperate much?
How ridiculous, metric makes much more sense and is easier to calculate. We will become a laughing stock of Europe if this occurs
I hope the review results in the complete scrapping of the Imperial system. Shall we go back to paying with shillings and sixpence too? Why do people insist on romanticising the past. It was shit.
Only last week he was telling the public that the public wanted him to move on from party gate and concentrate on the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis. Now this utter nonsense.
Introduce it.. and then the imbeciles who voted Brexit, because of some idealistic, rose-tinted, nostalgic world view, can start to see how shit the past actually was..
Yes, because the imperial system is so superior it's used by, um...... three countries worldwide 🤔
Apparently Johnson is also arranging for us to be bombed so we can experience 'blitz spirit' too.
The fucking state of it
This is madness and ridiculous! Please can we have some forward thinking? Instead of this distraction politics!
Ahah 'Imperial' by the way as in Roman empire. That's were the measurements come from... IE. They are an imported standards from, shock and horror for the brexit people, the continent! It is not some Victoriana concoction! Move on and use metrics. Stop living in 43 AD.
Brilliant.. should never have gone
We use a hybrid system anyway, so this idea will just waste time and money.
Only an idiot would think this a good idea British voters: Hold my pint glass
And just when I was finally getting used to grams & kilograms 😂
I feel we should embrace imperial more. It’s traditional and unique. I don’t want to use KM or litres or grams
“Pints…Gallons…Quarts…!” This speaks volumes
ROLLUCKS ITS ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO DIVERT THE CLAPPERS AGAIN FROM THE REAL NEWS
An opportunity to create a new imperial measure called Jubilee A Jubilee is a measure, in weight, that you leave the shop with due to cost of living crisis BorisJohnson is still working out the details before asking the greengrocers of England to adopt it
What a load of codswallop.
Oh ffs
Give them 2.54cm and they take 1.606km
I wonder how many miles to the gallon he'll get from this.
Yep a pound of chlorinated chicken sounds so much better than 500 grams 🙄
He truly has lost the plot or is it so we are more confused when we weigh up his abilities to be pm
Don’t be ridiculous 🙄
Is this a joke
Can’t wait to buy a pint ……
What a load of bollocks
The sooner that these people understand that we are NOT returning to the previous centuries, the better. Can we please have new, innovative, forward-looking ideas.
Boris will change it regardless as he’s a law to himself.
trying to keep Brexit alive ...all Party Boy has left....it's failed, he's failed.... removal of him and reversal of the Single Market access is now imperative in the National Interest, not an outdated measurement heirarchy.....
How much is this review going to waste? Consultants on £3000 per day must be so excited. What an absolute waste of time. Whoever thought of this should be sacked. I am hoping this is an early April fools joke
Followed by compulsory Latin and Archery on the national curriculum and smallpox for the under 18’s. Hang about….
They are pulling planners on a countrywide scale
How very Brexity 🙄
One for Johnsons base the little Englanders wallowing in the past.
What a fucking utter waste of time and money. Please leave the MetricSystem alone! ToryEgoTrip
Where's Andrew?
Spats and wing collars too please! 🥴
I never remember how many cringes are in a nostalgia-wet-dream?
Two things nobody cares, jubilee and imperial measurements.
In other news Johnson is pleased to announce Watney’s Red Barrall and Party 7 kegs will be making a comeback!
Grow up
Pound for pound the worst idea I’ve heard.
I'll tell you what, why don't we bring back shoving children up chimneys and be done with it. This bunch of clowns won't be happy until we've completely reverted to the nineteenth century.
I’ll have a 0.5628 litre of Boddies please barmaid
Existing derogation only for miles, pints of milk and beer plus (ridiculously) coffee and jam Everyone under 60 was taught in metric UK already has a productivity and competitiveness problem, damages the UK for some Conservative grey votes 🙄 USA metric: Medical NASA military
“Review”…content free announcement.
O Pleeeeaaassseee
What a load of utter crap.
Desperate measures to distract from the inadequacies of this government.
Imperial is antiquated an objectively inferior. Should just proply adopt the metric system.
I bet the schools will just love that . Boris needs to give his head a wobble.
Can we have a the return of 'Rickets', the death penalty and national service.
Toshhhhh!
Oh buzz off
No way. Metrication is universal. Imperial is isolationism.
Waste of money
More tax payers money wasted on utter dog’s bollocks.
Nice, so now the poor people cannot have 11 lbs of potatoes instead of 5 kg of potatoes. Thanks, inattentive and irreverent upper class overlords!
No, be a modern country and change the road signs to km/h. Like what should have happened decades ago.
Well that’ll fix everything.
Just like your colonial masters in the USA. Until now the ONLY TWO countries in the world to still use the imperial system were USA & Liberia, both Thord World nations. The intent is to destabilise global industry in order to maintain Domination of the markets. Beautiful.
Anyone who loves this will have died of Alzheimer's within six months.
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Many will be upset they were not taught how to work in different bases.
People would prefer to have their worker's rights restored.
This is the stupidest thing we’ve suggested since actually doing a brexit
Scurvy set to make a comeback, in bacon favour.
Let a pound of potatoes distract from the fact we can’t afford to put the heating on at night
Oh good. I can't wait for weights and measures to become illogical.
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